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  Grade: 4  
 
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  1. SYSTEMS: The student knows and applies scientific concepts and principles to understand the properties, structures, and changes in physical, earth/space, and living systems.  
  1.1. Properties: Understand how properties are used to identify, describe, and categorize substances, materials, and objects and how characteristics are used to categorize living things.  
  1.2. Structures: Understand how components, structures, organizations, and interconnections describe systems.  
  1.3. Changes: Understand how interactions within and among systems cause changes in matter and energy.  
 
  2. INQUIRY: The student knows and applies the skills, processes, and nature of scientific inquiry.  
  2.1. Investigating Systems: Develop the knowledge and skills necessary to do scientific inquiry.  
  2.2. Nature of Science: Understand the nature of scientific inquiry.  
 
  3. APPLICATION: The student knows and applies science concepts and skills to develop solutions to human problems in societal contexts.  
  3.1. Designing Solutions: Apply knowledge and skills of science and technology to design solutions to human problems or meet challenges.  
  3.2. Science, Technology, and Society: Analyze how science and technology are human endeavors, interrelated to each other, society, the workplace, and the environment.