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Everything you need to teach Earth's systems, natural hazards, fossils, and rock layers. Standards-aligned reading passages, worksheets, and activities for 4th grade — all inside your Workybooks library.
Every resource on this page is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) for 4th grade Earth and space science.
Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time.
Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation.
Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth's features.
Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans.
Click any topic to explore reading passages, worksheets, and activities. All resources included with your Workybooks subscription.
Your Workybooks subscription includes this entire earth and space science unit — plus thousands more standards-aligned resources across K–8 Science, ELA, Math, and Social Studies.
In fourth grade, students explore Earth's systems through the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), studying how maps reveal patterns in Earth's features, how weathering and erosion shape the land, and how fossils and rock layers tell the story of Earth's past.
The 4-ESS standards ask students to investigate four big ideas: using maps to identify patterns in Earth's features, explaining weathering and erosion through observations, reading rock layers and fossils as evidence of Earth's history, and designing solutions to reduce the impacts of natural hazards.
At Workybooks, we've built this complete Earth and space science unit around NGSS performance expectations 4-ESS1-1, 4-ESS2-1, 4-ESS2-2, and 4-ESS3-2. Each topic includes a standards-aligned reading passage at the right Lexile level for 4th graders, plus worksheets, activities, and anchor charts.
