Smart Goal Update #1

Smart Goal: I will be able to build an annotated bibliography on resources to help teach a 4th grade SOL
standard.
Grade Four Science SOL Topics:
• Scientific Investigation, Reasoning, and Logic
o Observations, conclusions, inferences, and predictions,
o Objects arranged based of characteristics
o Appropriate instruments used to measure length, mass, volume, and temp
o Independent and dependent variables
o Data collected and communicated with simple graphs, pictures, written statements
• Force, Motion, Energy
o Moving objects
o Electricity
• Life Processes
o Plan anatomy and life processes
• Living Systems
o Plant adaptations
o Energy through food webs
o Habitats
• Interrelationships in Earth/Space Systems
o Weather
o Weather measurements and tools
• Earth Patterns, Cycles, and Change
o Planets
o Earth, moon, and Sun relationships
• Earth Resources
o Investigate important VA natural resources
SOL Topic Resources Lesson Plan Ideas/Activities
Scientific
Investigation,
Reasoning, and
Logic, 4.1
demonstrate an
understanding of
scientific reasoning,
logic, and the nature
of science by
planning and
conducting
investigations
Forces, Motion, and
Energy, 4.2
investigate and
understand
characteristics and
interactions of
moving objects
Forces, Motion, and
Energy 4.3
investigate and
understand the
characteristics of
electricity
Life Processes 4.4,
will investigate and
understand basic
plant anatomy and
life processes
Living Systems 4.5,
will investigate and
understand how
plants and animals,
including humans, in
an ecosystem interact
with one another and
with the nonliving
components in the
ecosystem
Interrelationships in
Earth/Space
Systems 4.6,
investigate and
understand how
weather conditions
and phenomena occur
and can be predicted
Earth Patterns, • asked for & received the • http://www.inspiredelemen
Cycles, and Change SOL Study Book for tary.com/2016/03/planet-
4.7, investigate and fourth grade Earth flip-book.html
understand the Patterns, Cycles, and • http://www.stillplayingsch
organization of the Change: Our Solar ool.com/2016/03/planet-
solar system System notes packet hop-gross-motor-
• https://www.space.com/1 game.html
7028-terrestrial- • https://www.msnucleus.org
planets.html (this article /membership/html/k-
provides info on each 6/uc/solar_system/2/ucss2_
 planet and explains 3a.html
terrestrial vs. gas planets)

Earth Patterns,
Cycles, and Change
4.8, investigate and
understand the
relationships among
Earth, the moon, and
the sun
Earth Resources 4.9,
investigate and
understand important
Virginia natural
resources

Reflection:
I began my smart goal, by researching what the 4th grade science SOL topics were. From there, I
created a chart that will include all the information I will use to set up my annotated
bibliography. This chart includes a section with the SOL listed, a section for articles that explain
the topic for further understanding, and a section with lesson plan/activity ideas that relate to the
SOL. So far, I have researched one SOL extensively, Earth Patterns, Cycles, and Change 4.7,
since it is the SOL, I am doing for my science lesson plan. My plan is to continue researching
each SOL extensively, and then once the chart above is completed, write my annotated
bibliography. As I have started my smart goal, and continue to work on it, I was thinking about
changing my end product to be possibly a website, with all of the information I have researched
instead of writing an annotated bibliography. My thinking behind this little change is that I
would be making a more accessible resource for myself and other teachers to refer to when
teaching a specific 4th grade science SOL.