Help your 4th-grade students organize, model, and explain science concepts with this Science Lab Foundations Mini Bundle 2. Students learn about tables, graphs, graphic organizers, models, patterns, systems, and cause-and-effect relationships.

This resource supports 4th Grade TEKS Science Practices and is ideal for science notebooks, whole-group lessons, review, and quick assessment.

Give your students the tools they need to organize scientific information, understand models, identify patterns, analyze systems, and explain cause-and-effect relationships.

This Science Lab Foundations Mini Bundle 2: Organizing, Modeling, and Explaining Science is designed to build 4th grade science thinking skills in a clear, visual, student-friendly way. Each lesson includes an anchor chart, student guided notes, and an answer key. Review pages, vocabulary practice, and a quiz are also included to help students reinforce and apply what they learn.

This mini bundle is a great follow-up to Science Lab Foundations Mini Bundle 1 or can be used on its own to support data, modeling, and recurring science themes.

What’s Included

This resource includes:

• 3 anchor charts
• 3 student guided notes pages
• 3 answer keys
• 1 practice page
• 1 practice page answer key
• 1 vocabulary page
• 1 vocabulary answer key
• 1 quiz
• 1 quiz answer key
• TEKS alignment page
• suggested use and pacing page
• Terms of Use
• Credits & Sources
• Thank You page

Lesson Topics

1. Tables, Graphs, and Graphic Organizers
2. What Is a Model?
3. Patterns, Systems, and Cause & Effect

Great For

• science notebooks
• interactive notebooks
• data and graph review
• science models lessons
• recurring themes in science
• cause and effect practice
• beginning-of-year science foundations
• review and reteach
• test prep support
• whole-group mini lessons
• independent practice
• 4th-grade TEKS science practice review

TEKS Alignment List

This resource supports the following 4th Grade Science TEKS practice and recurring theme standards:

• 4.1E — construct appropriate graphic organizers including tables, graphs, maps, and charts
• 4.1G — develop and use models to represent objects, phenomena, and processes
• 4.2A — identify advantages and limitations of models
• 4.2B — analyze data by identifying significant features, patterns, or sources of error
• 4.3A — develop explanations supported by data and models
• 4.5A — identify and use patterns to explain scientific phenomena or design solutions
• 4.5B — identify and investigate cause-and-effect relationships
• 4.5D — examine and model the parts of a system and their interdependence

Need the first set of science foundations lessons? Check out Science Lab Foundations Mini Bundle 1: Thinking Like a Scientist.

Want the complete set? Save with the Science Lab Foundations Complete Unit, which includes both mini bundles in one organized resource.