Fourth Grade Lesson Plans

English Language Arts Grade 4 (2023)

• "As Classy as a Camera" (Learning about Similes with Photography)
• 4th Grade Lesson Ideas: Dash Robots
• 4th Grade Lesson Ideas: Ozobots
• Acquiring New Vocabulary Through Book Discussion Groups
• Acting Out Student Stories with Robots
• All About Our Town: Using Brochures to Teach Informational Writing
• An Educator’s Guide to Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras
• Authoring an Epilogue That Helps Our Characters Live On
• Balance Action in Your Writing with Thoughts and Emotions
• Bear and Deer Lesson Plan
• Blue Bots and Greek/Latin Roots
• Brainstorm a Myth
• Building Classroom Community Through the Exploration of Acrostic Poetry
• Character Mapping
• Charting Characters for a More Complete Understanding of the Story
• Cinderella Stories From Around the World
• Color Poems - Using the Five Senses to Guide Prewriting
• Comics in the Classroom as an Introduction to Narrative Structure
• Compiling Poetry Collections and a Working Definition of Poetry
• Composing Cinquain Poems with Basic Parts of Speech
• Cottontail Shoots the Sun
• Coyote Loses His Eyes Lesson Plan
• Coyote and Duck: A Paiute Tale
• Coyote and Frog Race Lesson Plan
• Coyote and Mouse Make Snow Lesson Plan
• Coyote and the Rolling Stone Lesson Plan
• Coyote and the Rolling Stone: Language Arts and Dance Lesson Plan
• Create a Book (Grade 3-6)
• Creating Classroom Community by Crafting Themed Poetry Collections
• Creating Family Timelines: Graphing Family Memories and Significant Events
• Creating Poetry Using a Traditional Shoshone Tale
• Creating a Classroom Newspaper
• Dancing Minds and Shouting Smiles: Teaching Personification Through Poetry
• Deforestation: Paragraph Writing
• Delicious, Tasty, Yummy: Enriching Writing with Adjectives and Synonyms
• Developing Inferential Comprehension Through DL-TA and Discussion Webs
• Digital Story: In My Opinion... (Lesson 1)
• Digital Storytelling 4th Grade
• Exploring Cause and Effect Using Expository Texts About Natural Disasters
• Exploring Personal Pronouns with Blue Bots
• Hardware and Software Analogies
• I Used My Own Words! Paraphrasing Informational Texts
• It's Greek to Me!
• Name Tag Glyphs
• Paul Laurence Dunbar, African American Poet
• Reading Fluency, Expression, and Sound Effects
• Short Writing Research Project
• Show Not Tell: Describing Setting Using the Five Senses
• Show Not Tell: Similes
• Story Pirates: Suspense
• Super Flip
• Tableaux Using "Coyote and the Rock"
• Unplugged: Rubber Band Research

Fine Arts - Grade 4

• 4th Grade Lesson Ideas: Dash Robots
• 4th/5th Grade Finch Art
• Area & Perimeter
• Utah National Parks

Health Education - 4th Grade

• 4th Grade Lesson Ideas: Ozobots
• Coyote and the Buffalo
• Four Humanity Systems in Chinese
• Stress Dolls
• Stress Management
• Web of Self Esteem
• Why Buzzard Is a Loner
• Wise Mind
• Zones of Regulation Lesson Using Keynote

Mathematics Grade 4

• 4th Grade Lesson Ideas: Dash Robots
• 4th Grade Lesson Ideas: Ozobots
• 4th/5th Grade Finch Art
• Acts of Kindness (Picture Book Library)
• Amazing Angles With Ozobots
• Conditionals with Ozobots
• Mathematical Modeling Task - Fry Bread (Picture Book Library)
• Mathematical Modeling Task - Harlem Grown (Picture Book Library)
• Mathematical Modeling Task - Soul Food Sunday (Picture Book Library)
• Mathematical Modeling Tasks - Actual Size (Picture Book Library)
• Museum Art (Picture Book Library)
• Ordering Fractions with an Ozobot
• Ozobot Space Mission With Fractions
• Sharing Cookies (Picture Book Library)
• Sorting Networks
• Sphero Christmas Challenge
• Sphero Mazes
• Valuable Shapes (Picture Book Library)

Physical Education - Grade 4 [Spring 2016]

• 4 Square Lesson Plan
• Elementary PE Individual Jump Rope Skills
• Parkour Unit Plan

SEEd - Grade 4

• "Ouch!" Says the Cube
• 4.1.1 Animal Structure & Function
• 4TH GRADE ENERGY
• 4th - Salt, Shrimp, and Secrets from Long Ago
• 4th Grade Lesson Ideas: Ozobots
• 4th Grade Light and Senses
• 4th Grade Ozobots: Pip and the Bamboo Path
• 4th Grade Ozobots: The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System
• 4th Grade Waves
• Air Plants - No Soil Needed - 4-LS1-1
• Animal Mouth Structures
• CKSci Unit 1: Energy Transfer and Transformation
• CKSci Unit 2: Investigating Waves
• CKSci Unit 3: Habitats and Change
• CKSci Unit 3: Structures and Functions of Living Things
• CKSci Unit 5: Astronomy: Space Systems
• Casting Shadows Across Literacy and Science
• Cottontail Shoots the Sun
• Coyote Steals Fire
• Design an Animal
• Don't Be Fooled by the Bright Lights
• Energy Transfer
• FOSSILIZATION AND ADAPTATION: ACTIVITIES IN PALEONTOLOGY
• Forms of Energy
• Fossils Game and Ozobots
• How Badger, Skunk and Sage Hen Were Marked
• Inflation of Moth Coremata - 4-LS1-1, 4-LS1-2
• Morse Code with Little Bits
• Mysterious Glowing Ball - 4-LS1-2, 4-PS4-2
• Patterns of Waves with Ozobots
• Polar Bears are Actually Black - 4-LS1-1
• Rotten Apples do Not Make Good Fossils
• Shrew Caravan - 4-LS1-1, 4-LS1-2, 4-PS4-2
• Soakin' Up the Sun
• Sphero Collisions and Energy Transfer
• Spheros, Speed, and Energy
• The Power Of Wind
• The Shadow Illusion - 4-PS4-2
• The Solar Power Challenge
• Tree Cookie Combat
• UT.SEEd.4.1.2 E.2
• UT.SEEd.4.1.3 Oh Fossil! Where are you?
• UT.SEEd.4.4.1 E.1
• UT.SEEd.4.4.1 E.4
• UT.SEEd.4.4.1E.5
• Utah Animal Adaptations
• Vantablack - The Darkest Material on Earth - 4-PS4-2
• What Does a Soccer (Football) Player See? - 4-LS1-2, 4-PS4-2
• Who Turned Out the Lights
• Why is Space Black? - 4-PS4-2
• xLabs Eye Gaze Tracking Software - 4-LS1-2, 4-PS4-2

Social Studies - 4th Grade (2024)

• 4th Grade Lesson Ideas: Dash Robots
• 4th Grade Lesson Ideas: Ozobots
• ADVOCATES FOR CHANGE: COMPARING SUSAN B. ANTHONY, FREDERICK DOUGLASS, AND EMMELINE B. WELLS
• American Founders and Constitution Month Constitutional Fitness
• Angel Island
• Archaeology in the Marshes Around the Great Salt Lake
• Connecting to Utah's Diversity
• Cottontail Shoots the Sun
• Coyote Loses His Eyes
• Coyote Steals Fire
• Coyote and Duck: A Paiute Tale
• Coyote and Mouse Make Snow
• EXAMINING (AND DEBATING) WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE ARGUMENTS AND MEMORABILIA
• Ghost Town Awakening
• Governments of Utah Past and Present
• HONORING THE EARLY STRUGGLE FOR WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE IN UTAH: PLANNING A MEMORIAL
• How Badger, Skunk and Sage Hen Were Marked
• How the Meanings of Colors Transmit Navajo Culture
• Immigration in Utah
• Japanese Internment
• MARTHA GOES TO WASHINGTON: EQUAL REPRESENTATION IN NATIONAL STATUARY HALL
• Mountain Men of Utah
• NHMU: Cultural Clutter - Tales In The Trash
• NHMU: The Fremont People
• Native American Round Dance
• Paying Tribute: Memorializing 9/11
• Physical Attributes of Utah
• Physical Attributes of Utah
• Playground Grid
• Rethinking First Contact: the Effects of European...
• Shoshone Seasonal Land Use and Culture
• Social Studies: Quilts
• State of Utah Report
• Storytelling in the Transmission of Goshute Culture
• THE LIFE OF MARTHA HUGHES CANNON: WRITING & ILLUSTRATING SHORT HISTORICAL STORIES
• The Art & Technology of Utah's 5 Unique Indian Cultures
• The Bear Dance as an Expression of Ute Culture
• The Pony Express
• The Trade Economy of the Southern Paiutes
• Utah Ghost Towns - Consumers vs. Producers
• Utah Historical Figures
• Utah Native American Homes Nearpod
• Utah Symbols
• Utah Women's Suffrage: Reader's Theater and Voting Simulation
• Ute Indians: Past and Present
• Voting to Make Your Voice Heard
• Where Do the People in Utah Live?
• Why the Moon Paints Her Face Black
• Why the North Star Stands Still: A Paiute Tale

Elementary Library Media (K-5)

• A Cinderella Story (Grade 2)
• A. A. Milne Lesson Plan
• Air Has Pressure
• Analyzing Commercials
• Analyzing Commercials
• Animals in the Ecosystems
• Animals in the Ecosystems
• Applied Digital Skills Lesson - Earth Day
• Archaeology in the Marshes Around the Great Salt Lake
• Arty Smarty: Exploring Various Mediums in Picture Books
• Arty Smarty: Exploring Various Mediums in Picture Books
• Banned Books (4-5)
• Banned Books (4-5)
• Be Internet Awesome: Don't Fall For Fake, Vocabulary
• Be Internet Awesome: Don't Fall for Fake, Lesson 1 - Pop ups, catfishing, and other scams
• Be Internet Awesome: Don't Fall for Fake, Lesson 2 - Who's this 'talking to me'?
• Be Internet Awesome: Don't Fall for Fake, Lesson 4 - Spotting untrustworthy information online
• Be Internet Awesome: Don't Fall for Fake, Lesson 5 - If we were a search engine
• Be Internet Awesome: Don't Fall for Fake, Lesson 6 - Practicing internet search
• Be Internet Awesome: Don't Fall for Fake, Lesson 7 - Interland: Reality River
• Be Internet Awesome: It’s Cool to be Kind, Lesson 1.1 - Noticing feelings
• Be Internet Awesome: It’s Cool to be Kind, Lesson 1.2 - Practicing empathy
• Be Internet Awesome: It’s Cool to be Kind, Lesson 2.1 - Your kindness gram
• Be Internet Awesome: It’s Cool to be Kind, Lesson 2.2 - Ways to show kindness
• Be Internet Awesome: It’s Cool to be Kind, Lesson 3 - From negative to nice
• Be Internet Awesome: It’s Cool to be Kind, Lesson 4 - About your tone
• Be Internet Awesome: Secure Your Secrets, Lesson 4 - Interland: Tower of Treasure
• Be Internet Awesome: Share with Care, Lesson 1 - When not to share
• Be Internet Awesome: Share with Care, Lesson 3 - That's not what I meant!
• Be Internet Awesome: Share with Care, Lesson 4 - Frame it
• Be Internet Awesome: Share with Care, Lesson 5 - Whose profile is this, anyway?
• Be Internet Awesome: Share with Care, Lesson 7 - Interland: Mindful Mountain
• Be Internet Awesome: Share with Care, Vocabulary
• Because I Stubbed My Toe (Grade K - 1)
• Because I Stubbed My Toe (Grade K - 1)
• Branding Iron
• Bubble, Bubble, Pop
• Cloud Identification
• Copyright in the Real World (Part 1)
• Create & Refine a News Broadcast (4th Grade)
• Create a Book (Grade 3-6)
• Create a Book (Grade 3-6)
• Creativity & Sharing Fairly
• Design an Animal
• Digital Influence
• Digital Story Comprehension and Retelling
• Do You Know Dewey (3rd Grade)
• Elements of Media- Music
• Evaluating Internet Sources (Grade 3-4)
• Fiction/Narrative and Non-fiction/Informational
• First Grade Animal Research Lesson Plan
• Fruit or Veggie Ads
• Goldilocks' Chair - Stem Design (Grade K-2)
• Gr 1 St 2: Messages are Constructed
• Gr 1-2 St 1: Define Basic Terms Media Literacy
• Gr 3-4 St 1: Define Basic Terms Media Literacy
• Gr 5 St 1: Define Basic Terms Media Literacy
• Gr K St 1: Define Basic Terms Media Literacy
• Habitats & Photography
• How Your Library is Arranged
• Informational Website: As Easy as 1, 2, 3...
• It’s Great to Create & Play Fair
• Kindness Counts Tracking Program
• Learning about polar bears (or any topic)
• Libraries are Important in Our World
• Libraries are Quiet for a Reason
• Media Consequences- Violence
• NetSafe Utah: What is Personal Information? (Grades K-3)
• Notes on Plagiarism (3-5)
• One True Story, Told Two Ways
• One True Story, Told Two Ways
• Organizing Information Lesson - Sorting Pictures
• Parts of a Book
• Poetry Suitcase
• Positive Online Interactions
• Positive Online Interactions
• Rank and Defend
• Respect the Person
• Round Robin Books (Grade K-1)
• Same/Different in Media Literacy Context
• Sharing Fairly
• Social Studies: Quilts
• Staying Safe Online
• Story Elements with Picture Books
• Structure and Function of Plants and Animals
• The American Revolution Genius Hour Plan
• U.S. Symbols, States, and Flags
• Using Destiny Quest (4-5)
• Why Libraries??

K-5 Computer Science

• 2nd Grade Lesson Ideas: Code & Go Mouse
• 3rd Grade Ozobots: Harlem Grown
• 4th Grade Ozobots: Pip and the Bamboo Path
• 4th Grade Ozobots: The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System
• 5th Grade Lesson Ideas: Dash Robots
• 7-Plank KEVA Challenge
• Algorithms with Code and Go Mouse
• Amazing Angles With Ozobots
• Animal Energy Sources and Blue Bots
• Binary Code and Sorting Networks
• Blue Bot Baby Communication
• Blue Bot Bingo (Vocabulary Review)
• Blue Bot Bug Dance
• Blue Bot Debugging with Grace Hopper
• Blue Bot Detective: Finding Unknown Numbers
• Blue Bot Finds Sight Words
• Blue Bot Math Coding
• Blue Bot with Movement of the Sky
• Blue Bots Explore Life Cycles
• Blue Bots and Greek/Latin Roots
• Blue-Bot Digraphs
• Blue-Bot Roundup
• Blue-Bot Spelling
• Break it Down with KEVA Planks
• Build a Snowman with Blue Bots
• Building Fractions with Magnetic Tiles
• Building Shapes with Picasso Tiles
• Building with Patterns
• Changing Surroundings With KEVA Planks
• Code a Castle with Brain Flakes
• Coding to 20
• Coding with Origami
• Comparing Numbers Using KEVA Planks
• Comparing Numbers Using KEVA Planks
• Computer Decoder: Dorothy Vaughan - Unplugged
• Conditionals with Ozobots
• Counting Coins with Blue Bots
• Counting on with Blue Bots
• Dance Algorithm Challenge
• Data Privacy Unplugged
• Discussing Copyright
• Evolution of the Telephone
• Exploring Personal Pronouns with Blue Bots
• Fast Food Fun
• Figurative Language with Spheros
• Finch Robot (Wild Thornberry)
• Fossils Game and Ozobots
• Geometric Shapes With KEVA Planks
• Halloween (Holiday) Data Collection with Zometools
• Halloween with Blue Bots
• Halloween with Sphero
• Hands-On Coding Introduction
• Hardware and Software Analogies
• Hello Ruby - Expedition to the Internet Unplugged
• Hello Ruby - Expedition to the Internet Unplugged
• Hello Ruby - Maps, Mazes, and Algorithms Unplugged
• Hello Ruby-Collaboration Unplugged
• Hello Ruby: Events - Unplugged
• Hello Ruby: Loops - Unplugged
• Identifying Rhyming Words with BlueBots
• If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Code & Go Mice
• Indi Bot Math Path
• Intro to Algorithms - What Are They?
• Intro to Ozobot Blockly
• Intro to Patterns
• Intro to Sphero
• Introduction to Micro:bit
• Introduction to Using Pages
• KEVA Building Challenge
• KEVA Plank ABCs
• KEVA Planks: Solving the Problem of Erosion
• Keep Cool with Legos
• Kindergarten Qobo Robot: Are You A Snail?
• Kindergarten Qobo Robot: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Legos, Landforms and Water
• Let’s Help Debug Blue-Bots
• Map Your Way to School With Ozobots
• Measurements With Spheros
• Mimicking Nature with Ozobots
• Morse Code with Little Bits
• Order of Operations with Blue Bots
• Ordering Fractions with an Ozobot
• Ozobot Opinion Writing
• Ozobot Rounding
• Ozobot Santa
• Ozobot Space Mission With Fractions
• Ozobot Thanksgiving Parade
• Ozobots Color Code Introduction
• Ozobots and Opinions
• Ozobots and Story Sequencing
• Ozobots and Westward Expansion
• Ozobots and the Ring of Fire
• Patterns of Waves with Ozobots
• Picasso Tiles and Code & Go Mouse Haunted Maze
• Plotting with Ozobots
• Pop Star: Creating Functions with Ozobots
• Potions For Ozobots
• Presenting Data with KEVA Planks
• Properties of Matter and Lego Creations
• Protecting the Landscape with KEVA Planks
• Pulling with LEGO WEDO 2.0
• Quadrilateral Fun With Spheros
• Recording Measurements With Sphero
• Retell Fairy Tales with Ozobots
• Robot Line Tag Unplugged
• Secret Handshake Sequencing
• Security Superheroes
• Sequencing and Creating with Zometools - Grade 1
• Sequencing with Tangrams
• Shine a Light On KEVA Planks and Picasso Tiles
• Snowman Algorithms
• Solving Problems and Decomposition with Zometools - Grade 3
• Sorting Networks
• Sorting and Counting Objects in Categories
• Spelling With Algorithms
• Sphero Algorithm Challenge
• Sphero Christmas Challenge
• Sphero Collisions and Energy Transfer
• Sphero Coordinate Plane Scavenger Hunt
• Sphero Editing
• Sphero Food Chains
• Sphero Maze and Figurative Language
• Sphero Mazes
• Sphero Measurement
• Sphero Olympic Gymnastics
• Sphero Olympics D1 - 400 M
• Sphero and Gravity
• Sphero indi Introduction 1: Stop, Go and Slow
• Sphero indi Introduction 2: Turning
• Sphero indi Introduction 3: All the Sweet Moves
• Spheros, Speed, and Energy
• Spreading Seeds With Blue Bots
• Storytelling and Technology Exploration
• Surviving in your Surroundings with Blue Bots
• That Could be a Computer
• Transmitting Messages with Sphero
• Unplugged Algorithm Location Challenge
• Unplugged Internet Safety Jeopardy
• Unplugged Weather Data
• Unplugged Weather and Behavior
• Unplugged: Add and Subtract as a Network
• Unplugged: Diversity in Technology
• Unplugged: Hardward and Software 4th Grade
• Unplugged: Hardware and Software
• Unplugged: My Favorite Things
• Unplugged: Networks and Writing
• Unplugged: Password Power Up
• Unplugged: Patterns of Survival
• Unplugged: Properties of Matter
• Unplugged: Sequencing and Storytelling with Emojis
• Unplugged: Sorting Devices
• Unplugged: Sports and Coding
• Unplugged: Step-by-Step Story Writing
• Unplugged: Troubleshooting Game 2nd Grade
• Unplugged: Troubleshooting Game 5th Grade
• WEDO 2.0 LEGO: Flooding
• WeDo 2.0 Intro: Glowing Snail
• What is a Computer?