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Overview

This weathering, soil, and rock cycle Grade 4 Science lesson bundle for Ontario uses 10 worksheets to help students explain how Earth materials change through weathering, soil formation, and rock-cycle processes. Learners connect observable properties (like texture and mineral characteristics) to evidence-based explanations about how landforms and rock types develop over time. The unit emphasizes scientific reasoning: students practice describing cause and effect, using models and diagrams, and comparing how different processes shape Earth’s surface.

What's Included

✅ Weathering Agents and Rock Changes Grade 4 Science Worksheets – Students investigate how weathering agents break down rocks and what changes can be observed.
✅ Soil Texture, Structure, and Water Retention Grade 4 Worksheets – Learners connect soil properties to how water moves and is stored in Earth materials.
✅ Soil Formation and Soil Horizons Grade 4 Science Worksheets – Students model how soil forms and use evidence to describe horizon layers.
✅ Sedimentary Rock Formation & Evidence Worksheets Grade 4 Science – Students examine how sediments compact and form sedimentary rocks, using clues in rock samples.
✅ Rock Texture and Types Worksheets Grade 4 Science – Learners classify rocks by texture and observable features, building a foundation for the cycle.
✅ Rock Cycle Processes and Transformations Worksheets Grade 4 – Students trace transformations among rock types and explain the processes that drive change.
✅ Mineral Properties and Identification Worksheets | Grade 4 Science – Students compare mineral properties and practice identifying minerals using specific characteristics.
✅ Metamorphic Rocks Worksheets: Heat, Pressure & Fluids | Grade 4 – Learners describe how heat, pressure, and fluids transform existing rock into metamorphic rock.
✅ Igneous Rocks Worksheets: Cooling History & Formation | Grade 4 – Students connect cooling history to crystal size and use evidence to reason about formation.
✅ Erosion and Deposition Landform Formation Worksheets Grade 4 Science – Learners analyze how erosion and deposition create landforms and shape Earth’s surface.

Skills & Standards

Aligned to the Ontario Science framework, this unit strengthens key abilities in Earth materials and processes. Students focus on cause and effect by linking weathering, erosion, and deposition to observable outcomes on rocks and landforms. Through modeling and analytical reasoning, learners interpret diagrams of the rock cycle, explaining transformations as connected events rather than isolated facts. Students build evidence-based explanations by using property observations (texture, mineral characteristics, and rock features) to support claims about rock type and process. Across the worksheets, they practice comparing and classifying Earth materials, sequencing steps in formation (such as sediment settling and compaction), and using scientific language to describe how systems change over time. These skills support a coherent disciplinary core idea: Earth materials are dynamic and can change form through natural processes.

Perfect For

Teachers seeking structured instruction
Sub plans
Homework or review
Intervention or centers
Assessment preparation

How to Use

Use this single-unit lesson bundle over 1–3 weeks, depending on your pacing needs. A common approach is to start with weathering and rock changes, then move into soil formation and horizons, and finish with rock types and the rock cycle before applying the final concepts to erosion and deposition landforms. Try a short warm-up each day (a “claim-evidence” question tied to the previous worksheet), followed by guided practice with a class model (such as a rock-cycle diagram). For checks for understanding, use quick exit tickets that ask students to explain one process using evidence from the worksheet and the day’s sample observations, then plan an end-of-unit review where students sequence transformations and justify their classifications.

Closing

With 10 ready-to-use Ontario worksheets, students can build confident, evidence-based explanations of the weathering, soil, and rock cycle while strengthening core Earth science reasoning.

Grade 4 Weathering, Soil & Rock Cycle Lesson Bundle | Ontario Science

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Metamorphic Rocks Worksheets: Heat, Pressure & Fluids | Grade 4
Grade 4 · Science · 12 Pages
- Describe how heat, pressure, and chemically active fluids can change a preexisting rock into metamorphic rock.
- Compare contact metamorphism and regional metamorphism by where they form and what causes them.
- Explain how recrystallization and foliation relate to textures seen in metamorphic rocks.
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Sedimentary Rock Formation & Evidence Worksheets Grade 4 Science
Grade 4 · Science · 12 Pages
- Describe the steps that form sedimentary rocks: weathering, erosion, transport, deposition, compaction, and cementation.
- Differentiate clastic, chemical, and organic sedimentary rocks using clear examples.
- Explain how grain sorting, bedding, and fossils can show past environments.
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Igneous Rocks Worksheets: Cooling History & Formation | Grade 4
Grade 4 · Science · 12 Pages
- Describe how igneous rocks form from magma or lava
- Compare intrusive and extrusive igneous bodies based on cooling rate and crystal size
- Use igneous texture and mineral content to infer a rock’s cooling history and setting
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Erosion and Deposition Landform Formation Worksheets Grade 4 Science
Grade 4 · Science · 12 Pages
- Explain how water, ice, and wind can cause erosion and move sediment
- Describe how deposition forms landforms such as valleys, deltas, beaches, and moraines
- Use cause-and-effect language to explain how sediment patterns can record past environmental changes
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Soil Texture, Structure, and Water Retention Grade 4 Worksheets
Grade 4 · Science · 12 Pages
- Identify how sand, silt, clay, and loam differ in particle size and texture.
- Explain how soil texture affects permeability and aeration for plant roots.
- Describe how organic matter helps soil structure and nutrient retention.
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Weathering Agents and Rock Changes Grade 4 Science Worksheets
Grade 4 · Science · 12 Pages
- Identify physical and chemical weathering agents and describe their effects on rocks
- Explain how freeze-thaw, abrasion, and plant roots can break rocks into smaller pieces
- Describe how oxidation and dissolution can change rock minerals and help form soil
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Rock Cycle Processes and Transformations Worksheets Grade 4
Grade 4 · Science · 12 Pages
- Describe how igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks connect through the rock cycle.
- Identify processes that change rock materials, including melting and cooling, weathering and erosion, transport, compaction and cementation, and heat and pressure.
- Explain that rock cycle changes repeat over geologic time and involve pathways that can loop.
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Rock Texture and Types Worksheets Grade 4 Science
Grade 4 · Science · 12 Pages
- Classify common rocks as igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic by observing texture and composition.
- Distinguish grain size, crystal arrangement, and layering/foliation using visible features.
- Explain how texture can record a rock’s formation environment, such as cooling rate or sediment transport.
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Soil Formation and Soil Horizons Grade 4 Science Worksheets
Grade 4 · Science · 12 Pages
- Describe how soil forms from weathered parent rock, organic matter, climate, topography, and time.
- Explain how soil horizons can differ in color, texture, and fertility.
- Predict how climate, slope, and drainage affect soil depth and development.
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Mineral Properties and Identification Worksheets | Grade 4 Science
Grade 4 · Science · 8 Pages
- Describe minerals as naturally occurring, inorganic solids with characteristic chemical composition and crystal structure.
- Use observable properties such as hardness, cleavage, fracture, streak, lustre, and colour to identify minerals.
- Apply simple field tests to compare mineral properties, including a hardness test and a streak test.
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