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Skill Sharpeners; Science builds
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are taught in the classroom and based follow-up activities clou iacrar\
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Contents
Physical Science
Matter 7
Concept: Motter hos lhree sloies: solid, liquid, gos.
Skills: Apply science vocobulory in conlext; Conduct experimenls ond record
resulls; Complele chorts or grophs lo cotegorize informotiont Complele
chorts or grophs lo onswer queslions
Changes in Matter 't5

Concept: Moiter con chonge when il is mixed, heoted, or cooled.
Skills: Apply science vocobulory in conlexl; Interpret informolion from grophic
imoges; Conducl experimenls ond record results: Write senlences to
demonslrole underslonding of science concepts
Forces and Motion 23

Concept: Pushing ond pulling con chonge lhe posilion ond motion of objecls.
Skills: Inlerprel informotion from grophic imoges; Conducl experiments ond
record results; Write senlences 10 demonstrole underslonding of science
concepls
Forces at Play 31
Concepl: Mognets con move things wilhoul touching lhem.
Skills: Apply vocobulory in conlexl; Interpret informolion from grophic imoges;
Conduct experiments ond record resulls; Wrile or drow 10 demonstrole
underslonding of science concepts
I ife Science
My Body 39
Concept People grow ond chonge.
Skills: Lobel grophic imoges to demonslrole underslonding of science concepts:
Wrile senlences 10 demonslrole underslonding of science concepls; Moke
ort projects to represent science concepls: Record informolion in chorts or
grophs
Body Parts 47
Concept Bones ond joinls help supporl ond move your body.
Skills: Apply science vocobulory in context; Interprel informotion from grophic
imoges; Drow piclures lo demonslrole underslonding of science concepls;
Moke projecls lo demonstrole underslonding of science concepls; Conducl
science experiments ond record results
Animal Life Cycles 55
Concept Animols grow ond chonge.
Skills: Apply science vocobulory in conlext; Reod grophic informotion lo onswer
queslions; Moke ort projects to represenl science conceptst Complele chorts
or grophs to demonslrote underslonding of science concepts
Plants 63
Concept Plonts grow ond chonge.
Skills: Apply science vocobulory in context; Interpret informoiion from grophic:
imoges; Conduct experimenls ond record resulls; Wrile sentences to
demonslrote understonding of science concepls
Habitats 71
Concepl: Hobilols hove oll kinds of life.
Sklls: Apply science vocobulory in conlexl; Inlerprei informolion from chorts or
grophs; Moke ort projects lo represent science concepls; Complele chorls
or grophs to demonslrote understonding of science concepts
Space and Earth Science

Space 79
Concept We con see the objecls in the sky.
Skills: Apply science vocobulory in context; Lobel grophic imoges lo demonslrote
underslonding of science concepls; Moke ort projects to represent science
concepls; Molch words to definilions
The Sun a7
Concept We con see the objecls in the sky.
Skills: Apply science vocobulory in conlext; Wrile senlences to demonslrote
underslonding of science concepls; Conducl experimenls ond record results;
Moke orl projecls lo represenl science concepis; Wrile senlences lo
demonslrole understonding of science concepls
Weather 95
Concept Differenl cloud lypes give us different weother.
Skills: Apply content vocobulory in conlext; Lobel grophic imoges to demonslrole
understonding of science conceplsi Conducl experimenls ond onswer
queslions; Moke ort projects io represent science concepts; Lobel grophic
imoges to demonslrote understonding of science concepts
Earth's Systems
Geology 103
Concept Different forces shope lhe lond.
Skills: Apply science vocobulory in context; Interprel informolion from grophic
imoges; Conduct experimenls ond onswer queslions; Conduct experiments
ond record resulls; Lobel grophic imoges to demonstrole underslonding of
science concepts
Water and lce 111

Concefi: Woier on Eorth con be liquid or solid.
Skills: Apply science vocobulory in conlext; Lobel grophic imoges lo demonstrole
underslonding of science concepls: Conduct experimenls; Wrile senlences
io demonslrole underslonding of science concepts
Science and Engineering

Science 119
concepl: Scientisls moke observolions, conducl experimenls, gother informolion,
ond drow conclusions oboul the world.
Skills: Apply science vocobulory in context; Interprel informoiion from grophic
imoges; Moke observolions ond record informolion; Write informotionol text
Engineering ........................127
Concepl: Engineers osk queslions ond develop solutions in order lo design o projecl.
Skills: Apply science vocobulory in conlext; Inlerprei informolion from grophic
imoges; Moke ort projecls lo represenl science concepls; Wrile questions
lo demonstrole underslonding of o science concepl
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Look ot the picture. Reod the word.
Write the word in the sentence.
A hos its own

shope ond does not flow.
solid
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A flows but
does not hove ils own shope.
liquido
A does not
hove ils own shope ond is
invisible.
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Reaitin$
Concept:
Matter has three
Solid, Liquid, Gas
states: solid,
liquid, gas.
Everything oround us is colled motter.

Motter is onything thot lokes up spoce.
Moller hos three forms:

solid, liquid, ond gos.
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A solid hos its own shope.
A solid will not chonge unless
you do something to it, like cut
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A gos is invisible. Air is

mode of goses. You connot ,/
see oir, but you con see

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Iheabulory
skill:
Apply science
Word Play
vocabulary in
context
Read the clue. Write the word. (.
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2. It hos its own shope.
3, It is mode of goses.
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Write the numbered letters to solve the puzzle.
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Visual literaey
Sorting Matter Chart skiil:

Complete
charts or graphs
Write eoch word in the chort. to categorize
information
milk rock woter oir toy
solid liquid
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Conduct
Three Balloons
experiments and
record results
What You Need
. 3 bolloons of different colors

o woter
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What You Do
t. Fill one bolloon holfwoy with woter.

Freeze overnight. The next doy, toke a
out the frozen bolloon. This is your
solid bolloon. How does it feel?
Write it on the nexl poge.
z. Fill onother bolloon holfwoy with

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woter. This is your liquid bolloon.
How does it feel? Write it on the
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next poge. //
3. Blow up onother bolloon. This is

your gos bolloon. How does it feel?
Write it on the next poge.
U tt. Toss eoch bolloon. Write whot
E hoppened on the next poge.
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Write whot hoppened when you tossed the bolloons.
What Happened?
Frozen
How did it feel?
Whot hoppened when I tossed il?
Liquid
How did it feel?
Whot hoppened when I tossed it?
Gos
How did it feel?
Whot hoppened when I tossed it?
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What I learned
5kill: Matter Chart

Complete
charts or graphs
to answer
Solids, Iiquids, ond goses ore kinds of motter.
questions Complete the chort to show how they ore olike
or different.
Does it
Con you
Motter hove its Write one exomple.
see il?
own shope?
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I lhelting, Free zing, Mixing
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Anolher lhing you con do with motter
is mix it. You con put together
different things ond
moke o mixlure. a t 6
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Things thol moke up o
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This mixture hos mony different kinds of fruit.
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trbeabulary
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Apply science
Word PIay
vocabulary in
context
Reod the clue. Write the word.
1. solid to liquid
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l4sual literaey
Changes in Matter skilt:

lnterpret
information
from graphic
Look ot the diogroms. rmages
heoting cooling
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In what woy did the In whot woy did the
butter chonge? woter chonge?

skiil:
Conduct
Crayon Paperweight
experiments and
record results
What You Need
. croyons
E . 2 smooth flot stones
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. 2 poper plotes
What You Do :O: This octivity

Is best done on
E l. Peel the poper from the

croyons. Moke croyon shovings
- overy sunny doy.
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by using o pencil shorpener.

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ctl 2. Ploce eoch stone on o poper
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plote. Sprinkle croyon
shovings on top of eoch stone.
3. Set one croyon-covered stone
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in direct sunlight. Set the other
croyon-covered stone in the
shode.
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Whot hoppened? Write or drow
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What I learneil
Skilt:
Write sentences
Changes Chart
to demonstrate
understanding
of science Write o sentence obout eoch picture.
concepts
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something, you move it owoy
from you.
push
When you
something, you bring it closer
to you.
pull
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A
thot mokes on object move. I
force

Beailin$
Concept:
Pushing and
Force Makes Things Move
pulling can
change the
position and
motion of
objects.
Think of how you moke things move.
You con use your honds or your body
to move something.
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A push or o pull is colled o force. A force mokes
somelhing move. A force olso stops somelhing
from moving.
You use more force

lo push or pull
heovier things.
You use less force

to push or pull
lighter things.

Ibeabulary
skiil:
lnterpret
What Kind of Force?
information
from graphic
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Write either pull or push.
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Push, Pull, or Both? lnterpret
information
from graphic
Reod the diogram. images
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Honils-on Aetivity
skill:
Conduct
The Force of a Push or Pull
experiments and
record results
What You Need
. choir . wogon -.21
. book . poper clip

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6 t. Collect eoch of the items

listed obove.
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3. Write obout whot you
did ond whot hoppened
in the chort on lhe
next poge.
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The For<e of o Push or Purr, continued
Pushed or Whot hoppened?

Item Pulled Did you hove to use o lot of force?
The toy moved. The toy wos

toy pushed eosy to push; I did not hove
to use o lot of force.
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skill:
Write sentences
How Much Force?
to demonstrate
understanding
of science Write o sentence obout eoch picture.
concepts
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to push o cor or o bike? Exploin
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A mognet will
or pull, some kinds of metols.
qttroct
The oreo oround o mognet thot

ottrocts objects is colled its
mognetic field
A mognet is ottrocted to metols

thol ore I
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Reailin$
Concept:
Magnets can
Magnets
move things
without
touching them-
A mognel is on object thot ottrocts some
metols, such os iron. The mognet pulls the
metol loword it. Steel is o metol with iron, so
o mognet will oltroct something mode of steel.
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A mognel con pull on o metol object
without even touching it. It con ottroct
metol even through onother moteriol,
such os poper or woter.
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You con probobly find mognels oll over your

home. They hold up popers. They keep doors I
closed. They ore inside computers. Mognets
ore powerful ond useful!
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Voeabulory
ski[:
Apply vocabulary
Word Play
in context
l. A kind of metolthot is ottrocted to o mognet
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2. To pull in toword itself
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3. The oreo oround o mognet thot pulls in objects
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People put mognets on this item mode of steel
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Magnetic Sentences lnterpret
information
from graphic
Mork the sentence thot goes with the picture. images
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Mognets ore different sizes.
Mognets con ottroct metolthrough poper.

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Mognets ottrocl metols thol contoin iron.
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skill:
Conduct
The Force Moves Through
experiments and
record results
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What You Need
. mognet . wooden ruler

. poper clip . drinking gloss
o piece of cloth . foil
. plostic bog . poper **=.k-ih
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What You Do
I I. Put the poper clip on o toble. Hold the mognet

obove it. Bring the mognet closer to the poper
clip until you con pick up the poper clip with
the mognet.
2. Now put eoch oflhe other

objects between the mognet
ond the poper clip. Con you
still pick up the poper clip?
3. Record your observotions

on the record sheet on
the next poge. G5
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oo Does the mognet stick

Object
through the obJect?
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SKiII:
Write or draw
What Will Stick?
to demonstrate
understanding
of science Whot things will o mognet ottroct?
concepts
Answer with words or drowings.
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A mognet will ottroct
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Grow ond Chqnge
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A child will into
on odult.
9row
Chonges thot hoppen to your

body ore colled
chonges.
physicol
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A is older
thon o boby but younger thon

o child.
toddler
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Readin$
Concept:
People grow
Grow and Change
and change.
You grow ond chonge in mony woys. Some

chonges ore physicol. Physicol chonges
hoppen to your body. You get bigger,
stronger, ond toller.
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Anolher physicol chonge
ao hoppens to your teeth.

You lose your boby
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teeth to moke woy .il: NF 't
for your odult teeth.
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You chonge in olher woys, too. You leorn
to do things you couldn't do before.
When you were o boby,

you leorned to crowl.
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Then os o toddler,
you leorned to wolk.
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Then you leorned to ride

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leorning. Whot else will you

leorn lo do os you grow?
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Ibeobulary
ski[:
Labelgraphic
Then and Now
images to
demonstrate
understanding Write o word to go with the picture. Then drow
ofscience
concepts o line to motch then ond now.
crowl eot tolk Jump drink cry
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Visual literaey
Moving A long skiil:

Labelgraphic
images to
Write l, 2, 3,4 to order the pictures. demonstrate
understanding
of science
concepts
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Finish eoch sentence.
t. First, o boby
Then, o loddler leorns to o!
After thqt, o child con o bike.
Finolly, on odult con o cor.
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Hands-on AetivitS,,
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skill:
Write sentences
to demonstrate
understanding
of science
concepts
Create a Timeline
Using photos or drowings, moke
o timeline thot shows you os o l. rbrD
ir - a
boby, o toddler, ond o child. Include your oge, ond
write o coption soying whot you could do ot eoch oge.
Boby
Age
I could...
Toddler
Age
I could...
child
rO
Age
I could...
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Hanils-on Aetivity
Hand in Hand skill:

Make art
projects to
represent
Moke a colorful hondprint
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science
concePts
picture with an odult!
What You Need

o point
o construction poper
o poper plotes
What You Do
t. Choose which point colors you will use. Pour o smoll

omount of eoch point color on o poper plote.
z. Ploce o lorge piece of construction poper on o toble.
3. Dip your polm in the point ond press your hond onto
the poper. Then dip your fingers into the point ond
press them onto the poper.
q. Hove on odult do lhe some thing with his or her hond.
s. Look ot both hondprints. Tolk obout how they ore

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different in size.
Write how your hondprint will chonge over time.

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What I Learned
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skill:
Record
Growth and Change Chart
information
in charts or
graphs Hove you gotten toller? Do you weigh more?
Hove you leorned to do something you
couldn't do lost year? (
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Ask o porent or guordion for help if you con't
remember.
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Eoch rn your
body is strong.
bone
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skeleton
Eoch in your
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Concept:
Bones and joints
Bones and Joints
help support and
move your body.
Your body hos mony bones. All lhe bones

together form o skeleton. Your skeleton helps
you stond up ond move. When you ore oll grown
up, you will hove 206 bones in your skeleton.
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Bend your fingers. Bones con'l bend, so how
ore you oble to bend your fingers? Your fingers
bend becouse ofjoints. Yourjoints help you
bend, turn, ond twisl. Joints ore where the
bones in your body come together.
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SKiII:
Apply science
Word Play
vocabulary in
context
l. You will hove 206 of these when you grow up.
z. Allthe bones in your body moke up your
g. These help you twist.

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to solve the puzzle.
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Bones ond joints help you
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5kiil:
Your Bones skull lnterpret
information from
graphic images
Different bones
hove different nomes.
ribs
orm bones
bockbone
{spine)
wrist bones
thigh bone
oo
foot bones
Look at the skeleton. Nome these bones.

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5kiil:
Draw pictures
Missing Bones
to demonstrate
understanding
ofscience Drow the missing bones. Lobel them.
concepts
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Sweet and Salty Skeleton SKiII:

Make projects
to demonstrate
understanding
Use pretzels, frosting, ond morshmollows to moke q hond! of science
concepts
What You Need

o I cup (125 g) . 7ztoblespoon (7 mll
powdered sugor woter
. 4 toblespoons (56 g) . mini morshmollows,
softened butter cut in holf
. pretzelsticks o wox poper
What You Do
ol
l. Loy o piece of wox poper over
this picture of o hond.
2. Mix the sugor, butter, ond

woter lo moke frosting.
3. Dip the pretzel sticks in the

frosting ond ploce them on
the piece of wox poper
in the shope of the hond.
tl. Ploce mini morshmollows between

the frosted pretzels to moke joints.
5. Enjoy this tosty treot!

What I learned
skilt:
Conduct science
Red Dot Joints
experiments and
record results
l. Sit down on o choir.

Stroighten one leg so thot
your fool comes off the
floor. Now look ot the
skelelon. Drow o red dot
on the joint thotjust
helped you stroighten
your leg.
2. Now stond up. Put your

orm stroight out without
bending ot the elbow.
Move your orm in o
circle ot the shoulder. 0
Drow o red dot on the

joint thot helped you
circle your orm.
3. Next, bend your knee

ond roise your leg. Circle
your leg ot the hip. Drow
o red dot on the joint thot
helped you circle your leg
ot the hip.
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drink their milk.
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o
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A chick will
on egg.
from
o
hotch a
2r. a
\z life cycle
The ports of on onimol's life from
birth to deoth ore colled its
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Concept:
Animals grow
n imals Grow and Change
and change.
Look of lhis mother cot ond her kitlens.
o
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molher cots grow their kittens inside their
so bodies. When the kittens ore born, they

OI ore weok. The kittens drink milk from their
J mother's body. This is how it is with most
I mommols, including humons.
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Mother cot-
E ) grows kittens Y
oI Kittens grow
-inside her.-
Kiltens ore
E into cots. born.
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becouse chickens ore not mommols. A
o
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hen loys her eggs in o nest. The chicks
breok lhe eggs ond hotch. They will F
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grow into odull chickens, ond lhe t
life cycle will continue. o
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Mother hen
loys eggs. a fl
Chicks grow
into odull
Chicks grow
inside a
I
chickens. - the eggs. -
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chicks horch.
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Voeabulary
Skilr:
Apply science
Word Play
vocabulary in
context
I
l. Boby bird
a
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I z. Animols thot grow inside lheir mothers

I 2
I s. A boby mommol drinks this from its mother.
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sOI 4. A ploce where hens loy their eggs
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Waiting to Hatch ski[:

Read graphic
information
Chicks stoy inside eggs for different omounts of time. to answer
questions
The omount of time eoch chick stoys in the egg depends
on the size of the mother bird.
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tokes the longest to hotch?
o
z. Which tokes longer to hotch,
o chicken or o hummingbird?
rt
3. Exploin why o goose tokes 14 more doys to hotch a
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thon o hummingbird.
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Hr Aetivity
ski[:
Make art ;
a
projects to
represent
science Use cloy to moke models
concepts
of o mother onimol ond E CI
its boby.
o What You Need

T JI.r -%
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Choose your fovorite onimol
to reseorch. Look in books or on the
J Internet to find out obout the onimol's life
cycle-how it grows from o boby to on odull.
I Use the modeling cloy to moke o model of
tr your fovorite mother ond boby onimol.
Use your fingers ond o tool such os o toothpick

E or chopstick to odd detoils to the onimols.
OI Let the cloy dry, ond then point the onimols.
E Complete the form on the nexl poge to tell
obout your fovorite onimol.

Cl oy A n i m o ls, <ontinued
Write obout the cloy onimol thot you mode.
The onimoll mode is o
The boby is colled o
It lives in
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Circle the correct onswers to show if the onimol
is o mommol.
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l. The boby grows in its mother in on egg. a
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2. The boby does does not drink its mother's milk.
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3. Is the onimol o mommol? yes no o
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ski[:
Complete charts
Cat and Bird
or graphs to
demonstrate
understanding Write to describe eoch stoge of the life cycle.
of science
concepts
Cat Life Cycle
(i Mother cot
grows kitlens
inside her.
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the ground.
grow into
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roots
The is the port

thot connects the roots ond the
leoves.
stem
A grows up out
of the soil.
shoot
A holds mony
SEEdS
pod

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Concept:
Plants grow
From Seed to Plant
and change.
A seed is the stort of o new plont.

How does o seed grow into o plont?
A beon seed is plonted

in the ground. A tiny new
plont is inside the seed.
stem
shoot
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roots
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U down into the ground. A leoves grow on the
shoot begins to sprout up stem. Leoves moke
G out of the soil. food for the plont.
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a plont grows. Firsl it is I
o seedling, or boby I
plonl. As it grows, -
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t flowers will moke seeds. I-
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open, lhe seeds foll out
into the ground.
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Then the plonl cycle
storts oll over ogoin. I
The new seeds grow
Flowers bloom
omong the leoves. into plonts.
The flowers moke
seed pods.

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skill:
Apply science
lay
vocabulary in
context
l. A plont storls with o

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When the stem grows longer,

these grow on the plont.
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3. Where seeds ore plonled r-.-l
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The port of the plont thot
grows down into the ground
Science P I zzle
A seed hos o tiny plont
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of it.
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Itsual literaey
Pumpkin Life Cycle skill:

lnterpret
information
from graphic
Look ot eoch picture below. Then write the letter images
of the sentence thot matches thot picture.
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o. It hos mony leoves, ond flowers grow on the plont.
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b. A pumpkin seed is plonted.
c. The big oronge pumpkin is filled with seeds.
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d. A root grows down. A shoot grows up.
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skill:
Conduct
Life Cycle of a Pea
experiments
and record
results
You con wotch peo seeds grow into plonts with flowers.
When the flowers moke peo pods, open them ond plont
the seeds. The cycle will be complete!
What You Need

o p€o seeds
.
o soil
. cleor cup
What You Do
L Sook two or three peo seeds in

woter overnight.
2. Plont the peo seeds in the cleor
cup filled with soil. Put the seeds
up ogoinst the side of the cup.
str
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3. Woter the seeds ond ploce the I
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cup in o worm ond sunny ploce.
4. Woter the soilwhenever it

becomes dry.
U 5. As the plont grows, meosure it.
Record whot you see in the chort
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Life Cycle of a
Fill in the chort.

3 How mony How mony
Week How toll?
flowers? seed pods?
Week I
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
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Week 7
Week 8
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Pea Plant Life Cycle q
Write sentences
to demonstrate
understanding
of science Lobel the picture of the plont life cycle.
concepts
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The is o lorge
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body of solt woler where mony
plonts ond onimols live.
oceon
EIl
The gets very
little roinfoll.
desert
A hos o thick
stem thot stores woter when it -
o
roins.
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, A is o ploce
a where plonts ond onimols live
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Reoilin(
Concept:
Habitats have all
Ocean and Desert Habit ts
kinds of life.
A hobitot is o ploce where plonts ond onimols

live. An oceon is o hobilot. Plonts grow in
oceon woter thot gets sunlight.
Seoweed floots
on the surfoce
of the woter.
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t A seo stor lives on
nu the oceon floor.
deep-seo
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gE Mony interesling onimols live in the oceon. They
ffi
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live in oll ports of the woler, from the shollow coost
to the oceon floor. Some onimols even live in woler
it-
so deep thot there is no light.
The desert is the driest hobitot. But plonts
ond onimols hove found woys lo live in this
hot ond dry hobitot.
Mony desert plonls con go

i'
o long time withoul woter.
The coctus hos o thick
stem thot stores woter ( coctus
when it roins.
Mony desert onimols get woler from the

plonts or seeds lhey eol. They hove olso
found woys to deol with the heol. Some
onimols rest in lhe q
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shode. Others live

underground ond
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go out only ot night
when it is cooler.
A kongoroo rot goes
out only ot night H
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skilr:
Apply science
lay
vocabulary in
context
I. Some desert onimols come out only

ot
2. The wettest hobitot is the
3. The driest hobitot is the

II
2
4. The q
is o desert
thot stores woter in its stem.
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tr Plonts ond onimols

l2rSu
tr
or chonge, to fit in to their hobitots.
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skiil:
Compare the Ocean and Desert lnterpret
information from
charts or graphs
Reod the diogrom.
oceon desert
both
wet dry
fish hobitots kongoroo rot
seo stor plonts hot
cold onimols sond
solty woter big coctus
seoweed
How ore the oceon ond desert the some?
How ore the oceon ond desert different?
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skiil:
Make art
Paper Ocean
projects to
represent
science Moke o 3-D oceon out of poper.
g
concepts
What You Need
o rectongle of blue poper

I Igl
a croft decorotions (ribbon, yorn, +1
stickers, glitter, poper, etc.) I A

a SCISSOTS
a glue -
What You Do
Fold the reclongle in holf,

bringing the short ends of the
blue poper together. Storting ot
H the folded end, cut wovy lines
ocross to the other side, stopping
just before you get to the edge.
E
tr
Open the poper ond seporote T
the woves, os shown. t d
tr Using the croft decorolions, l
E creote plonts ond qnimols

ond put them in the oceon.
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Skill:
Make a Cactus Make art
projects to
represent
A soguoro coctus hos sweet red fruit. All science
concepts
kinds of desert onimols eot this fruit. You
con moke o mini soguoro out of cloy.
What You Need
o picture of soguoro . red beods

coctus . toothpicks
. soucer filled with rice, . fork
peos, or lentils
o gr€€h modeling cloy
What You Do
a
'1" ,
Shope the cloy inlo o coctus.
Use the fork to moke grooves.
a
q
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Add red beods lo represent

ripe fruit reody for eoting.
Use the toothpicks to moke
prickly needles. When you
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ore finished, disploy your
coclus in the soucer with
rice or dried lentils.
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What I learned
skill:
Complete charts
Ocean and Desert Life
or graphs to
demonstrate
understanding Write the nomes of plonts ond onimols thot you
of science
concepts con find in the oceon ond the desert.
fish seoweed coctus

kongoroo rot lizord seo stor
What Lives What Lives

in the Ocean? in the Desert?
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The reflects
light from the sun.
moon
A shows only
port of the moon.
crescent
A is o boll of
hot goses.
stor gl
A
of stors.
is o pottern E
constellotion B
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Reailin$
Concept:
We can see the
We See the Moon
objects in the
sky.
new crescent quarter full

moon moon moon moon
Whot do we see in the sky ot nighl? We see the

moon. The moon does not moke its own light.
It reflecls the light from the sun.
The moon is olwoys round, but we do not see

oll of it every night. As the moon trovels oround
Eorth, it looks different to us. Il storts out os lhe
new moon. As the moon moves, its shope looks
like o crescent By the lime the moon trovels oll
the woy oround Eorlh, it looks like o round, full
moon. The chonges in the shope of the moon
thot we see ore colled phoses.
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We See Stars
t North Star
Little Dipper
Big Dipper
A stor is o boll of hol goses. Stors moke

light ond heot. Stors ore so for owoy from
Eorth thot we connot feel their heot. The
stors just look like tiny dots of light.
You con see obout 2,000 stors with your

eyes. Long ogo, people gove nomes to
groups of stors. These groups of stors ore
colled constellotions.
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skilt:
Apply scien€e
Word Play
vocabulary in
context
l. Big, round moon
2. Look like tiny dots of light
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3. The plonet you ore on
5 q
The moon when it is shoped like o bonono

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Visual literaey
Phases Skit!:
Label graphic
images to
demonstrate
Write the nome of eoch phose of the moon. understanding
of science
concepts
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ski[:
Make art
Cookie Moon
projects to
represent
science Show the phoses of the moon using sondwich cookies.
concepts
llE,
What You Need

-
. 8 sondwich cookies
. spoon
o poper plote Q,--=-
What You Do
l. Twist open the cookies. Use only the sides thot

hove filling. Set oside the other sides, except for
one, which will be used os the new moon.
2. Use the spoon to scrope off the filling so thot eoch

cookie looks like o phose of the moon.
3. Arronge the cookies on

o poper plote. Lobel eoch
cookie with the nome
Full
of o phose: ltew moon, lôon
O
crescent moon, quorter
moon, ond full moon.
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Stars in a Jar SKiII:

Make art
projects to
represent
Seethe Big Dipper science
concepts
constellotion on your woll!
What You Need

o picture of Big Dipper
o block poper . shorpened pencil
. cleorjor . thumbtock
. glow stick . cholk or white croyon
What You Do
l. Cut the block poper so thot it

willfit like o cylinder inside the jor.
2. Using cholk or o white croyon, drow
the Big Dipper on the block poper.
3. Poke holes in eoch stor of the

constellotion. Use o pencil for big """"'z
stors ond o thumbtock for tiny stors.
4. Bend the block poper into o cylinder shope.

Tope it closed. Ploce it inside thejor.
o
5. Put o glow stick inside the cylinder. Turn off the lights,
ond the constellotion will oppeor on your woll! o
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What I learneil
Ski[:
Match words
Moon and Stars
to definitions
Drow o line to motch.
crescent moon boll of hot goses
full moon I slice of moon
stor potlern of stors
constellotion chonges in the moon
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phoses big, round moon
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ft The is o boll
of hot goses.
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sun
trovels
oround the sun.
Eorth
The sun helps

grow.
plonts
Reailin$
Concept:
We can see the
We Need the Sun
objects in the
sky.
The sun is on object in the sky. The sun is o

boll of hot goses. It is the stor thot is closest
to Eorth. It is the stor we see in lhe doytime.
The sun is much bigger thon Eorth. The sun

looks smoll becouse it is so for owoy. Eorth
trovels oround the sun. It lokes one yeor for
Eorth to lrovel oll the woy oround the sun.
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People need the sun. It gives us heol

to stoy worm. It gives us lighl lo see.
Plonts need lhe sun, loo. The sun helps

plonts moke their food. Plonts moke
oxygen for people ond onimols lo breothe.
Without the sun, people,

plonls, ond onimols
could nol live on Eorth.
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Apply science
Word Play
vocabulary in
context
l. The stor closest to Eorth
2. The sun gives off this so you con see.
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3. The time it tokes for Eorth to trovel oll

the woy oround the sun
4. The sun gives us this lo stoy worm.
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The Sun Write sentences
to demonstrate
understanding
Look ot this picture. Write obout how the sun helps ofscience
concepts
people, plonts, ond onimols on Eorth.
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Conduct
Sun Picture E
experiments and
record results
See how the light from the sun
con couse chonges.
What You Need
o tope
. foom stickers or shopes
. dork construction poper
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What You Do
1. Arronge the shopes on the

construction poper.
z. Tope the construction PoPer to

o sunny window, focing out.
E s. After o week, toke down the
D
o construction poper ond remove the
shopes. Look of the construction
poper ond onswer the question.
c Whot did the sun do to the construction poper?
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Blended Suncatcher skilt:
Make art
proiects to
Cotch the sun with o disk thot represent
science
hongs in o window. concepts
What You Need
What You Do o glitter beods in

see-through colors
1. Cut o circle of porchment . disposoble pie pon
poper to fit the bottom . porchment poper
of the pie pon. Line the
pon with the poper.
2. Ask on odult to preheot the oven to 375.F flq0.C).
3. Arronge the beods on the porchment poper

so thot they look like o sun.
4. Ploce the pon in the oven for obout

20 minutes or untilthe beods ore melted.
s. Toke the pon of melted beods out of

the oven (on odultsjobl. Let them cool.
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6. Pop the disk out of the pon. Drill
o
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o hole ot the top (on odults job).
7. String yorn through the hole ond I

hong the sun in o window. Wotch
your beod sun cotch the reol sunl T
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Write sentences
Sun Facts 3
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to demonstrate I
understanding
ofscience Write to tell whot you leorned
concepts
obout the sun.
Whot is the sun?
Why does the sun look smoll?
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snow, or tce.
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A cloud is fluffy
cumulus
A cloud mokes
the sky groy.
strofus
A cloud is thin
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like o feother.
cirrus
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Concept:
Different cloud
We See Clouds
types give
us different e
weather. I
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When we look up of the sky, we see clouds.

Some clouds look like collon bolls. Some
clouds look like o groy blonket. Other clouds
look like white feothers.
How do clouds form? Tiny droplets of

woler or pieces of ice hong in the oir.
The woter or ice bunches @
together ond forms o cloud.
When the woter or ice gets t

too heovy, il folls to the at
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ground. The moisture thol
folls to Eorth is colled
precipitotion. Preci pitotion
con be roin, snoq or ice.
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Here ore lhree kinds of clouds you might see:
cumulus
Cumulus clouds ore fluffy a
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see these clouds on worm, I

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strotus Strofus clouds hong low

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ond flol, like o groy blonkel.
Somelimes strotus clouds
send down o light drizzle
or o sprinkle of roin.
cirrus
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Cirrus clouds ore
mode of ice crystols.
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They ore thin, curly
wisps high in the sky.
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Word Play
vocabulary in
context
l. Strotus clouds sometimes rest on the

ground os
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2. Wispy cloud
g. A form of precipitotion
4. Cirrus clouds ore mode of
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Cloud Names Label graphic
images to
demonstrate
Write the nome of eoch cloud. understanding
ofscience
con€epts
cirrus strofus cumulus
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Cloud in a Glass
experiments
and answer
questions Moke o cumulus cloud in o gloss ond then moke it roin.
What You Need
. shoving creom 6
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. cleor gloss
o woter o blue food coloring w
What You Do
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Fill the gloss holfwoy with woter.
z. Pile o mound of shoving creom

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on top of the woter in the
gloss. Moke it look like o fluffy n!
cumulus cloud. L--
:. Drip some blue food coloring onto the
cumulus cloud. Wotch os the cloud obsorbs
the woter. Soon, the cloud will get too heovy
ond blue drops willfoll from the cloud.
How is this similor to how roin reolly hoppens?
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Cloud Dough Make art
poects to
represent
Form different types of clouds using this special dough. science
concepts
What You Need
. 2 cups (250 g)white flour

o % cup (60 mll oil, such os boby oil or vegetoble oil
. block point (for strotus clouds) I
. 3 sheets blue construction poper

I
What You Do
't. Mix the flour

ond oil to moke the bosic *
C irY\,rs
cloud dough. You con use this dough
to moke cumulus ond cirrus clouds.
. Toke out obout one-third of the dough.

Add q little block point to il ond mix.
You con use this groy dough to moke sfratus
strotus clouds.
3. Lobel eoch construction poper

sheet: cirrus, strotus, cumulus.
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q. Form one type of cloud on eoch
poper. Tell someone obout the Cu-ul,,^s
different clouds.
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Label graphic
Word Cloud
images to
demonstrate
understanding Next to eoch picture, write the nome of the cloud
ofscience
concepts you leorned obout. Then write two words to
describe eoch cloud.
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tfr cornes
a owoy rock ond soil.
erosion
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Concept:
Different forces
How Does the Land Change ? a
shape the land.
Eorth's surfoce chonges E
over time. Il tokes mony

yeors ond differenl forces
to couse these chonges.
Erosion is o force thot

shopes the lond. Erosion
hoppens when rock ond soil ore corried owoy by
woter ond wind. For exomple, o streom con corry
owoy rock ond soil ond corve o poth in the lond.
Over time, erosion might turn thot poth into o
conyon. Thot s how the Grond Conyon wos formed!
Weothering is olso o force

thot shopes the lond.
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B Weothering hoppens when
woter or wind breok down or
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-t weor owoy rock. Hove you
ever found o smooth rock on
B a
lhe beoch? Thot is on
exomple of weothering.
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Weothering ond erosion ore two noturol forces
thot chonge the lond. But people con chonge
the lond, too. Wolking or riding olong the some
poth weors the lond down. Building roods
chonges the lond,
ond so does plonling
crops ond lrees.
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chonges to hoppen.
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ski[:
Apply science
Word Play
vocabulary in
context
t. This port of Eorth chonges over time.
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e. This corries rock ond soil owoy.
3, The weoring owoy of rock is colled
tt. Noture doesn't stoy the some; it
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lnterpret
information from
graphic images
This is o picture of o rood thot is being built. People hod
to chonge the lond to moke room for the rood. Whot ore
some things you think people did to chonge the land?
Choose oll thot opply.
o
tr Cut down trees
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tr Plonted more trees
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Conduct
Weathering Rocks
experiments
and answer
questions Rocks in o streom become What You Need
weothered when they ore
tumbled by the woter. Here . hondful of grovel
is how you con weother . 2 smolljors with
rocks yourself.
tight lids
. 2 coffee filters
What You Do o stroiner
t. Ploce holf the grovel
. bowl L.
in eoch jor, ond fill
a woter L,
the jors with woter. a
z. Shoke one jor os mony times os you con

in 2 minutes. Do not shoke the otherjor.
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g. Ploce o coffee filter inside the stroiner. Hold
it over the bowl. Pour everything from the jor
you shook into the filter. Let the woter droin.
4. Toke the rocks out of the filter, but leove the

sond. Then loy the sondy filter flot to dry.
s. Repeot Steps 3 ond 4 with the unshoken jor.
Why did one filter hove more sond?
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Soil Erosion Conduct
experiments
and record
Explore how wind ond woter move soil. results
What You Need t I
. disposoble plote o piece of wood

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. dry soil or sond . cup of wqter ./
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What You Do L.
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l. Work outside (in the yord

or of lhe beoch) for eosy cleonup.
Sprinkle some soil (or sond) on the plote.
Blow on the soil. Whot hoppened to it?
Now use the wood to prop up the plote.

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Pour woter on the soil. Whot hoppened to the soil?
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How might you keep the soil from being blown or o
woshed owoy?
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Labelgraphic
Erosion, Weatherihg, or People?
tE
images to
demonstrate
understanding What mode the change? Write erosion, weathering,
of science
or people.
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solt wqter
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glocier
ffi frozen fresh woter.
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Concept:
Water on Earth
Earth's Water
can be liquid or
solid.
About 70 percent of
Eorths surfoce is covered
with woter. This woter is in
bolh liquid ond solid form.
Almost oll of the liquid woter on Eorlh is solt

woter. This is woler in the oceon. We connot
use solt woler. We need fresh woler for
drinking, woshing, ond cooking. But only o tiny
omount of Eorth's woter is fresh woter. Some
con be found in rivers ond lokes. Other fresh
woter is underground.
fresh woter rcL
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A huge omounl of fresh woter is locked up inside

glociers. A glocier is o thick sheet of ice lhol forms
on lond. Glociers ocluolly move, though very slowly.
Sometimes o huge chunk of ice will breok

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owoy from o glocier ond floot into the seo.
This flooting ice is
colled on iceberg.
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As il floots, only the

tip of the iceberg
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shows. The rest
is underwoter.
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lbeabulary
skiil:
Apply science
Word Play
vocabulary in
context
l. Woter in the oceon
4 3
2. A sheet of ice on lond
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tl. Woter you con drink
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Science Puzzle
A very lorge glocier is colled on
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skiil:
Water and lce Label graphic
images to
demonstrate
Write the nome of eoch type of Eorth's woter. understanding
of science
concepts
glocier iceberg fresh woter solt woter
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Hands'on Aetivi$,,
skil!:
Conduct
Moving Glacier
experiments
Glociers move very slowly ocross the lond. You con moke
your own glocier to help you see how these lorge sheets
of ice move.
What You Need

I
. reseoloble plostic bog
. 3 toblespoons (44 mllworm wo ter
I
. I toblespoon (.l4 mLlwhite glue
. 2 toblespoons (28 mL) borox
.
E .
drop of blue food coloring A
bowl
I
mixing O
What You Do
1. Mix the woter ond glue in the plostic bog.
2. Add the borox ond close the bog. Kneod

the mixture until it comes together.
3. Open the bog ond odd o drop of blue food coloring.

Mix untilthe mixture is blue.
q. Set the bowl upside down. This is o mountoin. Empty
the mixture onto the mountointop. Wotch it creep
slowly downhill, the woy o glocier would move.
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Hands-on Aetivity
M I n ir ceberg SKiII:
Conduct
experiments
Moke o mini iceberg ond wotch it floot.
What You Need

. jor with lid
. reseoloble plostic . cleor bowl
sondwich bog
o woter
What You Do
t. Fillthe sondwich bog s. Ploce the jor in the

holfwoy wilh woter. freezer overnighl.
z. ttold the bog so the o. The next doy, remove

woter is in o corner. the mini iceberg from
Seolthe bog shut. the bog.
3. Ploce the bog inside z. Fill o bowlwith woter.

thejor. Let the end of Ploce the mini iceberg
the bog hong over the in the woter.
top of the jor.
8. How much of the
u. Screw the lid on the iceberg is obove woter?
jor, tropping the end How much is below?
of the bog.
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What I leerned
skiil:
Write sentences
to demonstrate
understanding
of science In the boxes below, write the nomes of the two types
concepts
of woter ond ice you leorned obout, ond describe them.
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who studies plonts.
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who studies onimols. Ul
zoologist G
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meteorologist H
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Concept:
Scientists make
Learning about Scientists
observations,
conduct
experiments, People who study the world to find oul how
gather
information, and
draw conclusions
about the world.
il works ore colled scientists. In order to leorn
obout the world, scientists osk queslions ond
conducl experiments. They toke the informotion
from the experiment ond lhink obout the results,
or whot it lells them. Informotion thot o scientist
discovers moy be used to solve reol-life problems
like protecting the environment or finding o cure
for o diseose.
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work in mony differenl ploces.
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A scientist who studies
, L
plonts like trees ond
flowers is o botonist.
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onimols is o zoologist.
A scientist who
Ul
studies the weother
is o meteorologisl.
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is thot lhey moke imporlont discoveries ond a
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Voeobulery
ski[:
Apply science
Word Play
vocabulary in
context
l. A scientist who studies onimols
.t
2. Whot o meteorologist studies
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3. Scientists conduct these.
4. Scientists solve these problems.
5. Scienlists moke these by doing experiments.
Science 1 t zzle
A scientist helps us better understond
the
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Visual literoey
SKiII:
Scientists' Tools lnterpret
information from
graphic images
These ore some tools thot scientists use to investigote
the world. Drow o line to motch the picture with the
correct definition. Then write the word on the line.
telescope net bolonce microscope
o tool used lo gother on

onimolto sludy
o tool used to moke objects

in the sky look lorger r-. /; -.t
o toolthot mokes smoll

objects look much lorger
o lool used to meosure lhe

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Hands-on Aetivity
skill:
Make
observations
and record
information
Use omognifying gloss to look ot things closely

ond write ond drow pictures obout whot you see!
What You Need lnformation:

A mognifying gloss, or
. o mognifying gloss hond lens, is o toollhol
. on outdoor spoce scienlisls use lo see
somelhing more cleorly.
I
What You Do
Use o mognifying gloss to observe the

things listed below ond on the next poge.
Write ond drow obout whot you sow.
Use the exomple below to help you

think like o scientist.
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I o leof Draw lt
E Where I sow it: under the tree
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Whot it looks like: It is oronge
ond hos brown veins.
I How it moves/Whot mode

it move: The wind blew the
ra leof offthe tree,
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on insect Draw lt
Where I sow il:
Whot it looks like:
How it lrroveS:
Whot it wos doing:
o blode of gross Draw lt
Where I sow it:
Whot it looks like:
How it moves/Whot mode

it move:
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What I learneil
SKiII:
Write
Engineering and Design
informational
text
Pretend thot you ore a scientist. Tell whot kind of
scientist you ore and write obout whot you ore sfudying.
Exploin whot you wont to know ond how it moy help
our world.
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An plons the
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design of something.
engineer
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Z a to find the
best solution.
scientist
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Concept:
Engineers
ask questions
and develop
solutions in Look oll oround, ond you will see things thot
order to design
a project.
people hove built. These things ore useful.
Before lhese things con be buill, they need lo be
designed, or plonned out. A person who designs
things is colled on engineer. An engineer must
understond how the ports of something work
together. In other words, he or she must know
how systems work.
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Some bridges hove
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o simple design.V
A This is lhe Golden Gole Bridge in

Son Froncisco. Colifornio. The chief
engineer of lhis bridge foced mony
problems during the plonning. The
H Golden Gole is one of lhe longesl ond

lollest bridges in the world, so
building it wos quile o losk!
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An engineer osks questions in order to creote o

good system. Here ore some things engineers
think obout before designing o project: tt
. How much money con we spend?
. When does it need to be done?

. Whol moteriols con we use?
. If il breoks, con we fix it eosily?

To onswer these questions, on engineer works
with other people, such os scientists, builders,

ond business people. Together, they figure out
the system thot works best.
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Voeabulory
SKiII:
Apply science
Word PIay
vocabulary in
context
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l. To plon out h
2. A person who designs things
3. Ports of things working together
4. A person who knows obout science
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Visual Literaey
Skiil:
Good Design lnterpret
information
from graphic
These ore some things thot engineers design. images
Drow o line to motch the picture with the correct

sentence. Then write the word on the line.
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It tokes you on the

rood.
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It lels you see in
the dork.
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