Unit Plans

Year 4 Unit Plans

Cross-Curricular units designed to provide strong foundations for young learners to develop the required learning as outlined in the content descriptions within the Australian Curriculum.

Our Year 4 Unit Plans

English

Maths

Probability (Chance)

  • Unit Plan Year: 3 4 5 6

    STEAM Unit: Game Theories

    This presentation introduces our students to basic probability, including how to calculate it and represent it as a fraction, to John Nash’s...

Number & Place Value

  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    STEAM Unit: Building Bridges

    This activity is a quick engineering challenge that your students will love! It can be completed in a single session with minimal materials....

Patterns & Algebras

Science

Earth & Space Sciences

  • Unit Plan Year: 4

    Surface Change

    This is a 10 lesson unit,Β designed to cover the Australian Curriculum for Year 4 Earth and Space Sciences. Over the course of this unit,...

  • Unit Plan Year: 4

    v9 The Water Cycle

    This short unit is based on the Year 4 Australian national science curriculum. It is designed to build on students' prior knowledge of the s...

Biological Sciences

  • Unit Plan Year: 4

    Life Cycles

    This is a 5 lesson unit designed to cover the first of two Biological Science content areas for year 4 students. Lessons 2-4 could be ta...

  • Unit Plan Year: 4

    Ecosystems

    This is a 5 lesson unit designed to cover the second of two Biological Science content areas for Year 4 students. Students learn about e...

  • Unit Plan Year: 4

    v9 Ecosystems

    This unit covers the Biological Sciences strand of the Australian Curriculum for Year 4. In this unit, students will learn about the world’s...

Chemical Sciences

  • Unit Plan Year: 4

    V9 Magic Materials

    This 7-lesson unit covers all the Year 4 Chemical Sciences material for the Australian National Curriculum. Throughout the unit, students co...

Physical Sciences

  • Unit Plan Year: 4

    V9 Fabulous Forces

    This unit is designed to cover the year 4 Physical Sciences material for the Australian National Curriculum. This physics unit stands apart...

HASS

History

Geography

Civics and Citizenship

Health

Technologies

STEAM

  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    STEAM Unit: STEAM Team Badges

    This set of reusable name badges can be used during teamwork activities in the classroom, especially with STEAM.For more information on team...

The Arts

  • Unit Plan Year: 3 4 5 6

    STEAM Unit: Digestion Detectives

    This activity has all the learning of a dissection without any of the mess, smells or gross-out, and is designed to be complete in a single...

  • Unit Plan Year: 1 3 4 5 +1

    STEAM Unit: Fabulous Fibonacci

    In this STEAM activity pack, students put some of what they have learned during the Fabulous Fibonacci presentation into action by creating...

  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    STEAM Unit: Tangram Algorithms

    In this activity, students build on what they have already learned about coding by creating algorithms for a partner to replicate tangram pu...

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