Museum on the Move Topics
Want to know more about a specific Museum on the Move topic? Scroll down to see details on what 4th grade SEEd standards each topic covers.
All Museum on the Move classes help students practice the following Science and Engineering Practices:
- Asking questions and defining problems
- Constructing explanations and designing solutions
- Engaging in argument from evidence
- Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
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Artifacts: Utah’s People and Cultures
What can we learn about the people who came before us from the things they left behind? Students become archaeologists by exploring artifacts from Ancestral Puebloan and Fremont people.
Grade 4 Social Studies:
Strand 4.1 - Students will understand the relationship between the physical geography in Utah and human life
Standard 4.2.1: Use evidence to make inferences about the geography of the land that would become Utah in the culture of one or more prehistoric or historic Native American cultures
Standard 4.2.3: Use primary sources to compare important aspects of the ways of life of indigenous groups existing within the land now called Utah
Fossils: Evidence of Utah's Past
What can fossils tell us about Utah’s past? Explore ancient habitats and adaptations through fossils both big and small, and across Utah’s incredible range of fossil history.
SEEd Strand 4.1 Organisms functioning in their environment
4.1.1 - Structure and function of organisms
4.1.3 - Stability and change from fossil evidence
4.1.4 - Patterns in rock layers and fossils show change over time
Our Great Salt Lake
What can the Great Salt Lake tell us about Utah's unique geography? Students explore what makes the Great Salt Lake of regional, national, and global significance using scientific skills of observation and inference.
Social Studies Strand 4.1 Utah's Unique Geography
4.1.3 - Describe how the physical geography of Utah has both negative and positive consequences on our health and safety
Social Studies Strand 4.5 A New Millenia
4.5.3 - Use data and trends to make recommendations for the best sustainable development of Utah’s resources.
SEEd Strand 4.1: Organisms Functioning in their Environment
4.1.1 - Structure and function of organisms
4.1.4 - Relationship between fossils and past environments
The view over Kolob Canyon in Zion National Park
Utah Through Rock Patterns
What can patterns in rock layers tell us about environmental change over time? What do these patterns tell us about Utah’s past environments? Students become geologists by exploring specimens from around Utah while learning to interpret clues about the past.
SEEd Strand 4.1
4.1.4 Patterns in rock layers and fossils show change over time
Structure and Function: Utah's Plants and Animals
How do plants and animals survive in different habitats? Explore the structures and construct an explanation on the functions of animal skulls, plant seeds, insect wings, and more!
Strand 4.1 Organisms functioning in their environment
4.1.1 - Internal and external structures support an organism's survival in its environment