Fourth Grade Curriculum Guide
FOURTH GRADE AT THE ORCHARD SCHOOL
Mathematics The fourth grade math program at The Orchard School is designed to provide a rich variety of cognitively appropriate strategies and resources so that all students have opportunities to experience both success and challenge. Teachers vary the level and pace of instruction to meet the students’ needs. Manipulative materials, projects, activities, and games are used to enhance conceptual learning.
Fourth graders will grow as mathematicians by:
• Identifying place value of whole numbers to millions. • Reading, writing, comparing, and rounding multi-digit numbers. • Adding and subtracting multi-digit numbers accurately and efficiently. • Understanding multiples, factors, and prime and composite numbers. • Multiplying multi-digit numbers using strategies based on place value and properties of operations. • Dividing two-digit numbers by one-digit numbers using strategies based on place value and the relationship between multiplication and division. • Recognizing and generating equivalent fractions. • Comparing two fractions with different numerators and denominators. • Adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers with like denominators.
• Writing fractions with denominators of 10 or 100 in decimal notation. • Comparing decimal numbers with digits to the hundredths place.
Social Studies Orchard’s fourth grade social studies program is designed as a chronological exploration of Indiana and its relationships with regional, national, and world communities. Students identify key people, places, and events that have shaped their state and region. Fourth-graders will grow as historians by: • Tracing the historical periods, places, people, events, and movements that led to the development of Indiana as a state. • Describing the components and characteristics of Indiana’s constitutional form of government. • Comparing the characteristics of Indiana’s changing economy in the past and present. Topics of Study • The first inhabitants • The major tribes of Indiana • The arrival of Europeans and the Revolutionary Period
• Indiana statehood • Indiana government • The Civil War era
• Industrial Revolution: Indiana’s growth and development • Indiana’s participation in World War I and World War II • Present day
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