900 - Paperback

Read and Understand, Science, Grades 4-6 presents stories that range from high-third grade to high-sixth grade in readability.

Topics presented include:

• Life Science: the common cold, tide pool life, yeast, diversity of animal eyes, conflict of conservation and tourism, cell structure and diversity, sickle-cell anemia.
• Physical Science: potential and kinetic energy, types of solar radiation, light reflection and refraction, chemical compounds, flight and rocketry, the periodic table of elements.
• Earth and Space Science: gravity, comets, types of rocks, total solar eclipse, tornadoes, tectonic plates and earthquakes, global warming.
• Science and Technology: the process of invention, alternative fuel sources, invention of the microwave, improving airplane wing design, global warming, telescopes, communications devices through the years.

This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key. This is a reproducible resource (photocopying of lessons is permitted) for single classroom or individual home use only.

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