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🔬 4th Grade · Science4-LS1-2Unit 3: Structure & function

Senses and the brain

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🎯 Objective: Students model how animals receive and process information.

Lesson outline

  1. Reaction time test.
  2. Model.
  3. Discuss.
  4. Exit: brain’s job.

Lesson 3 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

4-LS1-2

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), Grade 4 — typical US unit order

🏁 Unit goals

  • Explain how internal and external structures help survival
  • Model how animals use senses

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🦫 Encyclopedia: The human body⏲️ Stopwatch🦫 Encyclopedia: Science🦫 Kids encyclopedia⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Structure & function”

  1. Plant structures
  2. Animal structures
  3. Senses and the brain

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