Grade 4

How plants build their own food from sunlight.

Who eats whom, and what happens when one part changes.

Clouds, weather tools and Virginia's wildest storms.

Circuits, conductors, insulators and magnets.

What Virginia's land and water give us — and how to protect them.

The five regions, the Fall Line and Virginia's rivers.

Language groups, daily life and the archaeology that tells the story.

1607, the Starving Time and the first representative government.

Tobacco, Williamsburg and the growth of slavery.

Virginia's leaders in the fight for independence.

Secession, Appomattox and rebuilding Virginia.

Three branches and the products and services of each region.