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The Early-Spring Field Journal Map

Use a farm field journal and map layers to compare patterns in mountains, volcanoes, and recorded earthquakes.

Grade 4ScienceInteractive · Printable

Aligned to4-ESS2-2

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14 questions
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 4
Subject: Science
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students read map layers to identify patterns in mountains, volcanoes, and earthquakes.
Students compare locations across maps and support claims with map evidence.
Students distinguish mapped location patterns from predictions about future events.

How to use

Read the journal entry and map key together, then have students compare the map layers before answering. Ask students to point to coordinates when explaining their evidence.

Curriculum

NGSS standard covered

4-ESS2-2

Read maps to find patterns in Earth's features, such as mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes.

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The Early-Spring Field Journal Map

Read map layers to find patterns in mountains, volcanoes, and earthquakes.

Read the field journal maps

Read the field journal entry. The first coordinate is the west-to-east position. The second coordinate is the south-to-north position. Use the map layers and the journal data to answer the questions.

A Field Journal from Early Spring

On five early-spring mornings, fourth-grade student Rowan walked with a farmer along the edge of a working farm. The farm sits beside a larger region shown on the class maps. Rowan recorded locations of three Earth features. A mark shows a location recorded during the journal study; it does not show how large a feature is or how many events happened there.

Rowan made three map layers on the same 6-by-6 coordinate grid. On the mountain layer, the marks were (1, 2), (2, 3), (3, 4), (4, 5), (5, 6), and (6, 2). On the volcano layer, the marks were (1, 2), (2, 3), (3, 4), (4, 5), (4, 6), and (5, 5). On the earthquake layer, the recorded locations were (1, 1), (2, 3), (2, 5), (3, 4), (4, 5), (5, 4), (6, 6), and (6, 1).

Rowan noticed that some marks from different layers shared a coordinate, while other marks did not. Rowan also divided the earthquake layer into a south half with north coordinates 1 through 3 and a north half with north coordinates 4 through 6. The journal compares locations; it does not predict when the next earthquake or volcanic eruption will happen.

Mountain layer