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Chapter Reading Science Lesson Objectives Vocabulary Practice People/Careers in Science STEAM

Ch1 Nature and Science

Students will learn to use text features, such as captions, pictures, headings, and bold-faced words to understand the text.

Lesson 1 What Is Science? Students will understand how scientists use observation skills to study the natural world.

science, observation

Directed Practice Observing a Plant

Louis Pasteur

Guided Practice Temperature Patterns

Full Practice Observing Leaves

Lesson 2 What Are Science Skills?Students will learn the basic science skills scientists use during an investigation and how these skills interact.

model, inferring, prediction

Directed Practice Using Hearing to Make Observations

Guided Practice The Bouncing Ball Contest!

Full Practice How Can You Make Ice Melt Slower?

Lesson 3 How Do Scientists Work? Students will recognize that scientists use a variety of methods and techniques when they investigate.

hypothesis, evidence, patterned observation

Directed Practice Effect of Hammering a Magnet

Guided Practice Have Fun with Magnets

Full Practice Model Phases of the Moon

Lesson 4What Are Some Tools Scientists Use?World Connection: MicroscopeApply Math: Estimate and Measure

Students will demonstrate uses of some science tools and understand safety rules.

gram, kilogram, milliliter, liter, millimeter, centimeter, meter, International System of Units

Directed Practice Observing Water

Guided Practice Using Science Tools

Full Practice Field trip

Ch2 Technology and Society

Students will learn that the main idea is the most important sentence in the text and that details support the main idea.

Lesson 1 What Is Technology?World Connection: Satellite

Students will understand how science and technology help each other.

engineer, engineering

Directed Practice Using Technology

Alyse Stofer and Rudolf Diesel

Guided Practice Rocket Launch

Full Practice Technology and Life

Lesson 2 How Do Engineers Use the Design Process?Apply Math: The Number Line

Students will apply the design process to solve problems.

design, design process, prototype

Directed Practice Design a Nest

Guided Practice Design a Car

Full Practice Improve It

Ch3 Human BodyStudents will learn the cause and effect relationship.

Lesson 1 What Are the Skeletal and the Muscular Systems?

Students will describe the function of the skeletal and the muscular systems and how they work together.

involuntary muscles, voluntary muscles

Directed Practice Movement of Your Arm

Physical Therapist Repairing Broken Bones

Guided Practice The Skeleton

Full Practice Muscles

Lesson 2 What Are the Respiratory and the Circulatory Systems?

Students will learn about and investigate the function of the respiratory and circulatory system.

larynx, trachea, valves, arteries, veins

Directed Practice Breathing Out Carbon Dioxide

Guided Practice Exercise and Your Heart

Full Practice Breathing Out Water Vapor

Lesson 3

What Are the Digestive and the Nervous Systems?World Connection: Healthy BodyApply Math: Symmetry

Students will understand the functions of digestive and nervous system.

Students will model how eyes can see objects.

digest, stomach, small intestine, receptor, reflex

Directed Practice What Do You Taste?

Guided Practice What Affects Digestion?

Full Practice Light and Sight

Ch4 Animals

Students will learn to compare and contrast things by telling how they are alike and different.

Lesson 1 How Do Animals Grow and Reproduce? Students will describe how animals grow and reproduce.

reproduction, life cycle, metamorphosis

Directed Practice The Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Zoologist Build a Bird Beak

Guided Practice Young and Adult

Full Practice The Life Cycle of a Grasshopper

Lesson 2 What Helps Animals Survive?World Connection: Eagle

Students will investigate to build an argument that animals have adaptations and parts help them to survive.

adaptation, camouflage

Directed Practice Hidden Butterfly

Guided Practice Beak Adaptation

Full Practice Animal Adaptations

Lesson 3How Do Animals Respond to Their Environment?Apply Math: Venn Diagrams

Students will compare inherited behavior and learned behaviors.

Students will understand and model how animals receive and respond to different types of information.

stimulus, instinct, hibernation, migration

Directed Practice Learned Behavior

Guided Practice Classifying Behaviors

Full Practice Animal Behavior

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Chapter Reading Science Lesson Objectives Vocabulary Practice People/Careers in Science STEAM

Ch1 Nature and Science

Students will learn to use text features, such as captions, pictures, headings, and bold-faced words to understand the text.

Lesson 1 What Is Science? Students will understand how scientists use observation skills to study the natural world.

science, observation

Directed Practice Observing a Plant

Louis Pasteur

Guided Practice Temperature Patterns

Full Practice Observing Leaves

Lesson 2 What Are Science Skills?Students will learn the basic science skills scientists use during an investigation and how these skills interact.

model, inferring, prediction

Directed Practice Using Hearing to Make Observations

Guided Practice The Bouncing Ball Contest!

Full Practice How Can You Make Ice Melt Slower?

Lesson 3 How Do Scientists Work? Students will recognize that scientists use a variety of methods and techniques when they investigate.

hypothesis, evidence, patterned observation

Directed Practice Effect of Hammering a Magnet

Guided Practice Have Fun with Magnets

Full Practice Model Phases of the Moon

Lesson 4What Are Some Tools Scientists Use?World Connection: MicroscopeApply Math: Estimate and Measure

Students will demonstrate uses of some science tools and understand safety rules.

gram, kilogram, milliliter, liter, millimeter, centimeter, meter, International System of Units

Directed Practice Observing Water

Guided Practice Using Science Tools

Full Practice Field trip

Ch2 Technology and Society

Students will learn that the main idea is the most important sentence in the text and that details support the main idea.

Lesson 1 What Is Technology?World Connection: Satellite

Students will understand how science and technology help each other.

engineer, engineering

Directed Practice Using Technology

Alyse Stofer and Rudolf Diesel

Guided Practice Rocket Launch

Full Practice Technology and Life

Lesson 2 How Do Engineers Use the Design Process?Apply Math: The Number Line

Students will apply the design process to solve problems.

design, design process, prototype

Directed Practice Design a Nest

Guided Practice Design a Car

Full Practice Improve It

Ch3 Human BodyStudents will learn the cause and effect relationship.

Lesson 1 What Are the Skeletal and the Muscular Systems?

Students will describe the function of the skeletal and the muscular systems and how they work together.

involuntary muscles, voluntary muscles

Directed Practice Movement of Your Arm

Physical Therapist Repairing Broken Bones

Guided Practice The Skeleton

Full Practice Muscles

Lesson 2 What Are the Respiratory and the Circulatory Systems?

Students will learn about and investigate the function of the respiratory and circulatory system.

larynx, trachea, valves, arteries, veins

Directed Practice Breathing Out Carbon Dioxide

Guided Practice Exercise and Your Heart

Full Practice Breathing Out Water Vapor

Lesson 3

What Are the Digestive and the Nervous Systems?World Connection: Healthy BodyApply Math: Symmetry

Students will understand the functions of digestive and nervous system.

Students will model how eyes can see objects.

digest, stomach, small intestine, receptor, reflex

Directed Practice What Do You Taste?

Guided Practice What Affects Digestion?

Full Practice Light and Sight

Ch4 Animals

Students will learn to compare and contrast things by telling how they are alike and different.

Lesson 1 How Do Animals Grow and Reproduce? Students will describe how animals grow and reproduce.

reproduction, life cycle, metamorphosis

Directed Practice The Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Zoologist Build a Bird Beak

Guided Practice Young and Adult

Full Practice The Life Cycle of a Grasshopper

Lesson 2 What Helps Animals Survive?World Connection: Eagle

Students will investigate to build an argument that animals have adaptations and parts help them to survive.

adaptation, camouflage

Directed Practice Hidden Butterfly

Guided Practice Beak Adaptation

Full Practice Animal Adaptations

Lesson 3How Do Animals Respond to Their Environment?Apply Math: Venn Diagrams

Students will compare inherited behavior and learned behaviors.

Students will understand and model how animals receive and respond to different types of information.

stimulus, instinct, hibernation, migration

Directed Practice Learned Behavior

Guided Practice Classifying Behaviors

Full Practice Animal Behavior

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Ch5 Plants

Students will learn that they draw a conclusion when they use the facts and details they know to answer a question.

Lesson 1How Do Plants Grow and Survive?World Connection: Plants That Eat InsectsApply Math: Picture Graphs

Students will understand how plants make their food. photosynthesis, veins, chlorophyll

Directed Practice What Colors Can Be Found in Leaves?

Arborist Make Compost

Guided Practice Plants Release Oxygen

Full Practice Veins of A Leaf

Lesson 2 How Do Plants Reproduce? Students will understand reproduction in plants.

vegetative reproduction, pollination, fertilization, germination

Directed Practice Parts of a Flower

Guided Practice The Effect of Temperature on Germination

Full Practice Vegetative Reproduction

Lesson 3 How Do Plants Respond to the Environment?

Students will investigate how plants respond to the different environmental changes. tropism

Directed Practice How Do Plants Respond to Water?

Guided Practice How Does a Plant Respond to Gravity?

Full Practice How Do Plants Respond to Light?

Ch6 Earth’s Resources

Students will learn how to identify and show a sequence of events by using words like first, next, then, and last.

Lesson 1 What Are Minerals?World Connection: Minerals in Food

Students will identify and describe different minerals and their properties, and explain their uses.

mineral, luster, hardness, streak, crystal

Directed Practice So Shiny

Soil Scientist Water Filtration

Guided Practice Classifying Minerals

Full Practice Minerals in Our Life

Lesson 2 What Are Rocks?Apply Math: Tally Chart Students will investigate how rocks are formed.

rock, igneous rock, sedimentary rock, metamorphic rock, rock cycle

Directed Practice Observe Rocks

Guided Practice Model the Rock Cycle

Full Practice Make a Model of a Rock

Lesson 3 What Is Soil? Students will identify and compare different types of soil. soil, humus, loam

Directed Practice Sorting Soils

Guided Practice Soil and Plants

Full Practice Soil and Water

Lesson 4 What Are Natural Resources?

Students will describe that energy and fuels come from natural resources and their using can affect the environment.

Students will classify energy resources into renewable and nonrenewable resources.

natural resources, fossil, fossil fuel, renewable resources, non-renewable resources

Directed Practice Natural Resources Around Us

Guided Practice Renewable or Nonrenewable?

Full Practice Chocolate Chip Cookie Mining

Lesson 5 How Can People Protect Natural Resources?

Students will understand that the uses of fuels and the human activities affect the environment.

Students will investigate different ways to conserve the environment.

pollution, conserve, recycle

Directed Practice Polluted Water

Guided Practice Sort Your Trash

Full Practice Something New

Ch7Changes to Earth’s Surface

Students will use the cause and effect relationship to describe how natural events happen.

Lesson 1 What Is Found on Earth’s Surface? Students will compare and describe various landforms by using maps.

crust, mountain range, landform, island, canyon, groundwater

Directed Practice Classifying Landforms

Geologist An Earthquake-Resistant Building

Guided Practice Identifying Landforms

Full Practice Model of a Landform

Lesson 2 How Does Earth Change Slowly?

Students will investigate and model how Earth can change slowly.

Students will observe the effect of vegetation and air on the rate of erosion.

weathering, erosion, deposition

Directed Practice Model Weathering

Guided Practice Preventing Erosion

Full Practice Wind and Weathering

Lesson 3

How Does Earth Change Rapidly?World Connection: Mount St. HelensApply Math: Comparing Decimal Numbers

Students will investigate and model how Earth can change rapidly.

volcano, earthquake, fault

Directed Practice Forming a Mountain

Guided Practice Model of a Volcano

Full Practice Floods Change Land

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Ch5 Plants

Students will learn that they draw a conclusion when they use the facts and details they know to answer a question.

Lesson 1How Do Plants Grow and Survive?World Connection: Plants That Eat InsectsApply Math: Picture Graphs

Students will understand how plants make their food. photosynthesis, veins, chlorophyll

Directed Practice What Colors Can Be Found in Leaves?

Arborist Make Compost

Guided Practice Plants Release Oxygen

Full Practice Veins of A Leaf

Lesson 2 How Do Plants Reproduce? Students will understand reproduction in plants.

vegetative reproduction, pollination, fertilization, germination

Directed Practice Parts of a Flower

Guided Practice The Effect of Temperature on Germination

Full Practice Vegetative Reproduction

Lesson 3 How Do Plants Respond to the Environment?

Students will investigate how plants respond to the different environmental changes. tropism

Directed Practice How Do Plants Respond to Water?

Guided Practice How Does a Plant Respond to Gravity?

Full Practice How Do Plants Respond to Light?

Ch6 Earth’s Resources

Students will learn how to identify and show a sequence of events by using words like first, next, then, and last.

Lesson 1 What Are Minerals?World Connection: Minerals in Food

Students will identify and describe different minerals and their properties, and explain their uses.

mineral, luster, hardness, streak, crystal

Directed Practice So Shiny

Soil Scientist Water Filtration

Guided Practice Classifying Minerals

Full Practice Minerals in Our Life

Lesson 2 What Are Rocks?Apply Math: Tally Chart Students will investigate how rocks are formed.

rock, igneous rock, sedimentary rock, metamorphic rock, rock cycle

Directed Practice Observe Rocks

Guided Practice Model the Rock Cycle

Full Practice Make a Model of a Rock

Lesson 3 What Is Soil? Students will identify and compare different types of soil. soil, humus, loam

Directed Practice Sorting Soils

Guided Practice Soil and Plants

Full Practice Soil and Water

Lesson 4 What Are Natural Resources?

Students will describe that energy and fuels come from natural resources and their using can affect the environment.

Students will classify energy resources into renewable and nonrenewable resources.

natural resources, fossil, fossil fuel, renewable resources, non-renewable resources

Directed Practice Natural Resources Around Us

Guided Practice Renewable or Nonrenewable?

Full Practice Chocolate Chip Cookie Mining

Lesson 5 How Can People Protect Natural Resources?

Students will understand that the uses of fuels and the human activities affect the environment.

Students will investigate different ways to conserve the environment.

pollution, conserve, recycle

Directed Practice Polluted Water

Guided Practice Sort Your Trash

Full Practice Something New

Ch7Changes to Earth’s Surface

Students will use the cause and effect relationship to describe how natural events happen.

Lesson 1 What Is Found on Earth’s Surface? Students will compare and describe various landforms by using maps.

crust, mountain range, landform, island, canyon, groundwater

Directed Practice Classifying Landforms

Geologist An Earthquake-Resistant Building

Guided Practice Identifying Landforms

Full Practice Model of a Landform

Lesson 2 How Does Earth Change Slowly?

Students will investigate and model how Earth can change slowly.

Students will observe the effect of vegetation and air on the rate of erosion.

weathering, erosion, deposition

Directed Practice Model Weathering

Guided Practice Preventing Erosion

Full Practice Wind and Weathering

Lesson 3

How Does Earth Change Rapidly?World Connection: Mount St. HelensApply Math: Comparing Decimal Numbers

Students will investigate and model how Earth can change rapidly.

volcano, earthquake, fault

Directed Practice Forming a Mountain

Guided Practice Model of a Volcano

Full Practice Floods Change Land

SCOPE AND SEQUENCE



Ch8 Energy and Heat

Students will write a sequence by describing the order by which an event happens in the text.

Lesson 1 What Is Energy? Students will identify the different forms of energy. energy

Directed Practice Identifying Energy

GlassblowerHow Can You Build a Solar Oven?

Guided Practice How Does Light Travel?

Full Practice Ice Cube Race

Lesson 2 What Are Potential and Kinetic Energy? Students will use evidence to explain the effect of the energy an object has on its speed.

potential energy, chemical energy, kinetic energy

Directed Practice Slow or Fast?

Guided Practice Comparing Potential Energy

Full Practice Elastic Potential Energy

Lesson 3 How Does Energy Change Form?Apply Math: Reading a Pie Chart

Students will observe that energy can change from one form to another and transfer from place to place.

transformation of energy, energy transfer

Directed Practice Changing Energy

Guided Practice The Domino Effect

Full Practice Build A Catapult

Lesson 4What Is Heat Energy?World Connection: How Do Solar-Powered Cars Work?

Students will observe that many forms of energy can change to give heat energy.

thermal energy, heat, temperature

Directed Practice Shaking Sand

Guided Practice Heat and Colors

Full Practice What Makes Heat?

Lesson 5 How Does Thermal Energy Travel?Students will make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by heat.

conduction, insulator, convection, conductor, radiation

Directed Practice Warm It Up

Guided Practice Observe Convection

Full Practice Keep It Cool

Ch9 Electricity

Students will learn to identify the main idea and the key details of a text.

Lesson 1 What Is Electrical Energy?Students will observe how electric charges behave and understand that many forms of energy can change into electricity.

static electricity, generator

Directed Practice Swinging Balloons

ElectricianHow Can You Make a Hidden Alarm?

Guided Practice Measuring Static Electricity

Full Practice Look for Batteries

Lesson 2 How Do Electric Charges Flow? Students will understand how electric charges flow.electric current, series circuit, parallel circuit

Directed Practice Making a Simple Circuit

Guided Practice Conductors and Insulators

Full Practice How Do Switches Work?

Lesson 3How Does Electricity Transfer Energy?World Connection: Electricity OverloadApply Math: Word Problems

Students will observe how electricity transfers energy and how it transforms.

electromagnet, electric motor

Directed Practice Change Electricity

Guided Practice Electric Motor

Full Practice How Can You Build an Electromagnet?

Ch10 Sound and Light

Students will learn that they compare and contrast things to tell how they are alike and different.

Lesson 1 What Is Sound Energy?Students will recognize sound waves as a form of energy and identify their characteristics, and how to describe their properties.

sound, frequency, amplitude, wavelength, sound wave

Directed Practice Catch a Wave!

AudiologistHow Can You Make Drums Talk?

Guided Practice Comparing Waves

Full Practice Waves and Energy

Lesson 2 How Do Sound Waves Travel?Apply Math: Analyzing Data

Students will observe that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound. reflect

Directed Practice Sound and Matter

Guided Practice Bouncing Sounds Around

Full Practice Take in Sound

Lesson 3 How Are Sounds Different? Students will differentiate between pitch and volume of sounds. pitch, volume

Directed Practice Sound and Pitch

Guided Practice Make Your Own Phone

Full Practice Making a Guitar

Lesson 4 What Is Light Energy?Students will recognize what the electromagnetic spectrum is and the different properties and uses of light.

electromagnetic spectrum

Directed Practice Light Sources

Guided Practice The Color Wheel

Full Practice Uses of Light

Lesson 5 How Does Light Travel? Students will observe that energy can be transferred from place to place by light.

absorption, translucent, opaque, transparent, refraction

Directed Practice Energy From the Sun

Guided Practice Observe Light

Full Practice Make a Rainbow

Lesson 6 How Can Information Be Sent?World Connection: Message Drums

Students will recognize how different types of data are stored, sent, received, and processed by computers. digital file, pixel

Directed Practice Magnify It

Guided Practice Digitize Your Name

Full Practice Communication Model

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Ch8 Energy and Heat

Students will write a sequence by describing the order by which an event happens in the text.

Lesson 1 What Is Energy? Students will identify the different forms of energy. energy

Directed Practice Identifying Energy

GlassblowerHow Can You Build a Solar Oven?

Guided Practice How Does Light Travel?

Full Practice Ice Cube Race

Lesson 2 What Are Potential and Kinetic Energy? Students will use evidence to explain the effect of the energy an object has on its speed.

potential energy, chemical energy, kinetic energy

Directed Practice Slow or Fast?

Guided Practice Comparing Potential Energy

Full Practice Elastic Potential Energy

Lesson 3 How Does Energy Change Form?Apply Math: Reading a Pie Chart

Students will observe that energy can change from one form to another and transfer from place to place.

transformation of energy, energy transfer

Directed Practice Changing Energy

Guided Practice The Domino Effect

Full Practice Build A Catapult

Lesson 4What Is Heat Energy?World Connection: How Do Solar-Powered Cars Work?

Students will observe that many forms of energy can change to give heat energy.

thermal energy, heat, temperature

Directed Practice Shaking Sand

Guided Practice Heat and Colors

Full Practice What Makes Heat?

Lesson 5 How Does Thermal Energy Travel?Students will make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by heat.

conduction, insulator, convection, conductor, radiation

Directed Practice Warm It Up

Guided Practice Observe Convection

Full Practice Keep It Cool

Ch9 Electricity

Students will learn to identify the main idea and the key details of a text.

Lesson 1 What Is Electrical Energy?Students will observe how electric charges behave and understand that many forms of energy can change into electricity.

static electricity, generator

Directed Practice Swinging Balloons

ElectricianHow Can You Make a Hidden Alarm?

Guided Practice Measuring Static Electricity

Full Practice Look for Batteries

Lesson 2 How Do Electric Charges Flow? Students will understand how electric charges flow.electric current, series circuit, parallel circuit

Directed Practice Making a Simple Circuit

Guided Practice Conductors and Insulators

Full Practice How Do Switches Work?

Lesson 3How Does Electricity Transfer Energy?World Connection: Electricity OverloadApply Math: Word Problems

Students will observe how electricity transfers energy and how it transforms.

electromagnet, electric motor

Directed Practice Change Electricity

Guided Practice Electric Motor

Full Practice How Can You Build an Electromagnet?

Ch10 Sound and Light

Students will learn that they compare and contrast things to tell how they are alike and different.

Lesson 1 What Is Sound Energy?Students will recognize sound waves as a form of energy and identify their characteristics, and how to describe their properties.

sound, frequency, amplitude, wavelength, sound wave

Directed Practice Catch a Wave!

AudiologistHow Can You Make Drums Talk?

Guided Practice Comparing Waves

Full Practice Waves and Energy

Lesson 2 How Do Sound Waves Travel?Apply Math: Analyzing Data

Students will observe that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound. reflect

Directed Practice Sound and Matter

Guided Practice Bouncing Sounds Around

Full Practice Take in Sound

Lesson 3 How Are Sounds Different? Students will differentiate between pitch and volume of sounds. pitch, volume

Directed Practice Sound and Pitch

Guided Practice Make Your Own Phone

Full Practice Making a Guitar

Lesson 4 What Is Light Energy?Students will recognize what the electromagnetic spectrum is and the different properties and uses of light.

electromagnetic spectrum

Directed Practice Light Sources

Guided Practice The Color Wheel

Full Practice Uses of Light

Lesson 5 How Does Light Travel? Students will observe that energy can be transferred from place to place by light.

absorption, translucent, opaque, transparent, refraction

Directed Practice Energy From the Sun

Guided Practice Observe Light

Full Practice Make a Rainbow

Lesson 6 How Can Information Be Sent?World Connection: Message Drums

Students will recognize how different types of data are stored, sent, received, and processed by computers. digital file, pixel

Directed Practice Magnify It

Guided Practice Digitize Your Name

Full Practice Communication Model

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