4th Grade Science Vocabulary Cards & Big Idea Posters for NGSS

These Fourth Grade Science Vocabulary Cards & Big Idea Posters are great tools for teaching about all fourth-grade sciences topics. They follow the fourth-grade NGSS standards. Included are over 100+ Vocabulary Cards and Big Idea Posters for Earth Science, Life Science, and Physical Science.

The vocabulary cards come in two formats. One format has three parts: picture, word, and definition. This format is perfect for small group or pocket chart matching. The second format is only the word and definition, perfect for a science wall.

Big Idea Posters have key ideas and concepts related to the 4th grade Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).

EARTH SCIENCE VOCABULARY WORDS

• 105 Vocabulary Cards
• 56 Big Idea Posters
• Some of the included words: continental drift, crust, erosion, fossil, geologist, igneous rocks, lava, magma, metamorphic rock, paleontologist, plate tectonics, rock cycle, sediment, sedimentary rock, weathering, energy, fossil fuel, nonrenewable energy, pollution, renewable energy, chemical weathering, delta, deposition, drainage basin, erosion, levee, physical weathering, sediment, weathering, blizzard, condensation, convection current, convergent plate boundary, divergent plate boundary, earthquake, evaporation, eye, eye wall, fault, freezing rain, hurricane, lightening, magma, plate, plate boundary, plate tectonics, precipitation, seismometer, thunder, tornado, transform plate boundary, tsunami, weather front, crust

LIFE SCIENCE VOCABULARY WORDS

• 34 Vocabulary Words
• 40 Big Idea Posters
• Some of the included words: adaptation, blubber, chlorophyll, spore, deciduous, dormant, evergreen, function, left atrium, left ventricle, phloem, photosynthesis, plants, right atrium, right ventricle, septum, stomata, structure, symbiosis, valve, xylem, phytoplankton, cornea, dermis, ear canal, eardrum, echolocation, electroreception, epidermis, iris, pinna, pupil

PHYSICAL SCIENCE VOCABULARY WORDS

• 46 Vocabulary Words
• 22 Big Idea Posters
• Some of the included words: analog, binary number system, code, digital, Morse Code, satellite, amplitude, electromagnetic spectrum, electromagnetic waves, longitudinal wave, peak, pitch, sound, transverse wave, trough, volume ,wave, wavelength, absorption, concave lens, convex lens, opaque, primary colors of light, primary colors of pigment, reflection, refraction, retina, translucent, transmission, transparent, trough, wavelength, white light, atom, circuit, battery, conduction, convection, electrical current, electrical energy, energy, friction insulator, kinetic energy, law of conservation of energy, mass, pitch, potential energy, radiation, sound energy, thermal energy, volume