Bring the night sky to life in your classroom with this complete Grade 4 Space Unit fully aligned to the new Alberta Science Curriculum.
This resource includes everything you need to teach an engaging, hands-on unit that connects astronomy, observation, technology, and seasons to students’ real-world experiences.
Students explore objects in space, constellations, calendars, and navigation while practicing scientific thinking and computer science skills through collaborative design challenges and investigations.
This unit saves you planning time while giving students meaningful opportunities to observe, investigate, design, and explain.
☑️What Makes This Unit Unique
- 100% aligned with the new Alberta Science Curriculum
- Includes engaging lessons, teaching slides, and student workbook activities
- Integrates Computer Science outcomes
- Incorporates the scientific method and inquiry
- Combines hands-on learning with clear instruction
- Includes a culminating design challenge project
- Built-in formative assessments and a final unit test
☑️What’s Included
✔ Detailed teacher lesson plans
✔ Teaching slides for each lesson
✔ Vetted websites, online books, and videos
✔ Guidance for discussions and activities
✔ Culminating project instructions
✔ Student workbook activities
✔ Hands-on investigations and design activities
✔ 8 formative check-ins to assess understanding
✔ End-of-unit test
✔ Anchor charts
✔ Vocabulary cards
✔ Constellation pictures for 'Constellation in a cup' activity
✔ Bulletin board letters
Students love these interactive resources.
✔ Constellation trading cards
✔ Celestial object trading cards
✔ Space viewing technology trading cards
These cards help students learn about:
- constellations
- planets and stars
- binoculars, telescopes, and planetariums
- navigation using the stars
Perfect for centers, games, and review activities.
☑️Students explore:
- The universe and objects in space
- Observing the Sun, Moon, stars, and planets
- Day vs night observations
- Technologies used to view space
- Constellations and their positions in the sky
- Using stars for navigation
- Traditional names and cultural perspectives of the North Star
- How space connects to seasons, plants, and animals
- Lunar calendars vs the Gregorian calendar
☑️Why Mummabell?
- No Prep is required other than to photocopy the student booklet, print out the posters, etc.
- Super easy to follow.
- You literally can just follow the teaching slides and learn alongside your students.
- Uses Triangulation of Evidence for Assessment - Observations, Conversations, and Products. Included for each Skill and Procedure, so you can assess throughout the unit.
New Grade 4 Alberta Science Curriculum resources:
✅ ENERGY: Non-Contact Forces
✅ MATTER: Waste Management
✅ SPACE: Objects in Space
✅ EARTH SYSTEMS: Interactions and Conservation COMING SOON
✅ LIVING SYSTEMS: Structures and Functions in plants and animals