Read and Understand Science, Grade 3 - 4 Teacher Resource

By Martha Cheney and Evan Moor

Read and Understand Science, Grades 3-4 presents stories that range from low-third grade to high-fourth grade in readability.

Topics presented include:

Life Science: role of sleep, the five senses, role of play in animals, bird habitats, importance of fire in an ecosystem, animal classification, wild animal adaptation to living near humans Physical Science: how sound is produced, physical and chemical properties, states of matter, magnetism and compasses, heat and insulation, natural and artificial light Earth and Space Science: soil, kinds of rocks, fossil fuels, the solar system, solar eclipse, hail, types of mountains, fossils and petrification Science and Technology: biography of an engineer, sustainable agriculture, research into animal brain function, recycling, CT scans, use of Earth's material resources

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.

About Evan-Moor
A leader in PreK-8 educational publishing, Evan-Moor has been a trusted partner of teachers and parents for over 40 years. Our mission is helping children learn, and we do this by creating resources that motivate children to learn important skills and concepts across the curriculum while also inspiring a love of learning.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557998566
• ISBN13: 9781557998569
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 9 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 5

Customer Reviews

Interesting Passages, Good Questions

My students found these passages interesting. With the various activities, the students developed an understanding of referencing the text, and I was able to gauge their comprehension well. However, the multiple choice questions are more knowledge-based (literal). They do not require a lot of inferencing/drawing conclusions.

Read and Understand Science, Grades 3-4

I really like the way this book is set up - it's got a lot of interesting information presented in a variety of ways. It's a good introduction to many aspects of science in a clear, concise manner.

Perfect!

We started with grades 2-3 and I love these books! They have helped us move forward in Science like few other books I've used in the past 10 years. They are informative and fun. Read and Understand Science is filled with good activities, and the chapters are long enough to cover the concepts without becoming tedious. My favorite part is that it teaches key concepts without incorporating experiments too difficult to pull off in my kitchen!

We are using this Science book for a third grader in homeschool.

We have found this book to be interesting to the student. After reading the experiments/stories, the student answers questions about what he has read. This requires comprehension and understanding. The questions are geared to require some thinking and expression by him. When called on to do experiments, he is eager to determine if the experiment will work. Often, he insists that someone else watch how it works as he does it over. I believe he is enjoying this Science curriculum and will be finished with it in record time.

great reading/vocabulary resource for teaching science

This series builds literacy in science through readings about the human body, life, earth, and physical sciences. Key vocabulary words are presented in boldface. Each reading is followed by exercises and activities that strengthen the vocabulary and concepts presented in the reading.