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Programs for Teachers

Grade 4

Instructor-Led Program

Our engaging instructor-led programs provide focused learning opportunities where students can ask questions, collaborate and problem solve with the guidance of our Georgia Aquarium Educators.

Please see below for information and details on our Grade 4 Instructor-Led Programs:

  • 4.1 Sights and Sounds of the Sea
  • 4.2 Kelp-ing the Balance
  • 4.3 20,000 Lights Under the Sea

4.1 - Sights and Sounds of the Sea

Many hidden factors on Earth can affect animals and their environments. Noise pollution, the Earth’s orbit and the moon’s phases are some factors that can affect the ocean’s animals in massive ways. What other hidden factors can impact the animals we know and adore? Students will investigate which elements can play a part in animal behaviors and how animals have adapted to their environment’s ever-changing sights and sounds.

 

Georgia Standards of Excellence 

  • S4E2. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to model the effects of the position and motion of the Earth and the moon in relation to the sun as observed from the Earth.
    • c. Construct an explanation of how the Earth’s orbit, with its consistent tilt, affects seasonal changes.
  • S4P2. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about how sound is produced and changed and how sound and/or light can be used to communicate.
    • a. Plan and carry out an investigation utilizing everyday objects to produce sound and predict the effects of changing the strength or speed of vibrations.

Next Generation Science Standards

  • 4-PS3-2. Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

4.2 - Kelp-ing the Balance

Ecosystems throughout the world have unique food chains that are essential for life. But how can living and nonliving factors affect these food chains? Do food chains adapt to accommodate the needs of animals in a particular ecosystem? Students will focus on a kelp forest ecosystem and investigate the relationship between sharks, sea urchins, sea otters and kelp. Moreover, hypothesize how an ecosystem could be impacted if one of these elements becomes more prominent or absent.

 

Georgia Standards of Excellence 

  • S4L1. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the roles of organisms and the flow of energy within an ecosystem.
    • b. Develop simple models to illustrate the flow of energy through a food web/food chain beginning with sunlight and including producers, consumers, and decomposers.
    • c. Design a scenario to demonstrate the effect of a change on an ecosystem. (Clarification statement: Include living and nonliving factors in the scenario.)

Next Generation Science Standards

  • 5-LS2-1 Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.

4.3 - 20,000 Lights Under the Sea

Animals that live on land are significantly affected by gravity and pressure. But did you know? Those factors have an impact on marine life. Students will discover how different aquatic animals are affected by those factors while forming an understanding of how marine creatures respond to other stimuli, like light!

 

Georgia Standards of Excellence

  • S4P1. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the nature of light and how light interacts with objects.
    • a. Plan and carry out investigations to observe and record how light interacts with various materials to classify them as opaque, transparent, or translucent.
  • S4P2. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about how sound is produced and changed and how sound and/or light can be used to communicate.
    • a. Plan and carry out an investigation utilizing everyday objects to produce sound and predict the effects of changing the strength or speed of vibrations.

Next Generation Science Standards

  • 4-PS4-2. Develop a model to describe that light reflecting from objects and entering the eye allows objects to be seen. 
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