Take-Home Activities

Grade K

• Unit A: Planting Seeds

• Unit B: Observing Animal Homes

• Unit C: Caring for Earth

• Unit D: Observing the Night Sky

• Unit E: Using the Five Senses

• Unit F: Listening for Sounds

Grade 1

• Unit A: Plants, Animals, and People

  • Chapter 1: Stem in Action
  • Chapter 2: Animal Artifacts
  • Chapter 3: Touch and Tell

• Unit B: Living Things and Where They Live

  • Chapter 4: Animal Needs
  • Chapter 5: Can You See Me Now?

• Unit C: Earth, Our Home

  • Chapter 6: Make a Rock
  • Chapter 7: Home Recycling Center

• Unit D: Weather and the Sky

  • Chapter 8: Make It Rain!
  • Chapter 9: Moon Journal

• Unit E: Describing Matter

  • Chapter 10: A Sense of Matter
  • Chapter 11: A House Full of Mixtures!

• Unit F: Energy Sources and Motion

  • Chapter 12: Shadow Show
  • Chapter 13: Pulley Pulls

Grade 2

• Unit A: Plants and Animals

  • Chapter 1: Plants in a Jar
  • Chapter 2: My Mammal and Bird Chart
  • Chapter 3: A Timeline of ME!

• Unit B: Environments and Energy

  • Chapter 4: A Habitat Underfoot
  • Chapter 5: What's to Eat?

• Unit C: Treasures from Earth

  • Chapter 6: It Breaks Me Up
  • Chapter 7: A Natural Resources Survey

• Unit D: Patterns in the Sky

  • Chapter 8: Changing Water
  • Chapter 9: Solar System in a Box

• Unit E: Matter and Energy

  • Chapter 10: Mix and Separate
  • Chapter 11: Noise, Noise, Everywhere!

• Unit F: Motion and Forces

  • Chapter 12: All Mixed Up
  • Chapter 13: Fly Away Butterfly

Grade 3

• Unit A: How Living Things Function

  • Chapter 1: Adopt a Tree!
  • Chapter 2: Fossil Fun
  • Chapter 3: Supermarket Seeds

• Unit B: Living Things in Their Environment

  • Chapter 4: Squirrel Nuttiness
  • Chapter 5: Are You in the Food Chain?

• Unit C: Earth's Surface

  • Chapter 6: Getting Carried Away!
  • Chapter 7: Down the Drain

• Unit D: Earth in Space

  • Chapter 8: What's in a Cloud?
  • Chapter 9: Hanging Solar System
  • Chapter 10: Follow the Stars

• Unit E: Matter

  • Chapter 11: What's the Matter?
  • Chapter 12: Salt and Pepper

• Unit F: Energy and Change

  • Chapter 13: Turn Up the Sound
  • Chapter 14: Bend Light
  • Chapter 15: Simple Machines in Action

Grade 4

• Unit A: Organization of Living Things

  • Chapter 1: Press Plant Parts
  • Chapter 2: Pulse Counter
  • Chapter 3: Seed or No Seed
  • Chapter 4: Track Taste Buds

• Unit B: Ecosystems

  • Chapter 5: What Is Alive?
  • Chapter 6: Compost for a Cleaner World
  • Chapter 7: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

• Unit C: The Solid Earth

  • Chapter 8: Shaking Things Up!
  • Chapter 9: Waste Not, Want Not?

• Unit D: The Atmosphere and Beyond

  • Chapter 10: Cloud Maker
  • Chapter 11: Circling the Sun

• Unit E: The Nature of Matter

  • Chapter 12: Make Your Own Thermometer
  • Chapter 13: Cleaning for Pennies

• Unit F: Energy and Motion

  • Chapter 14: Singing Strings
  • Chapter 15: Electric Fleas
  • Chapter 16: Domino Daze

Grade 5

• Unit A: The Life Processes

  • Chapter 1: Do Diffusion!
  • Chapter 2: Roots Into Plants
  • Chapter 3: Making Fingerprints

• Unit B: Interactions Among Living Things

  • Chapter 4: Build a Biome
  • Chapter 5: Chart the Changes

• Unit C: Earth Systems

  • Chapter 6: Build a Mountain Range
  • Chapter 7: Building Your Own Volcano!
  • Chapter 8: Digging Up the Dirt on Dirt

• Unit D: Atmosphere and the Solar System

  • Chapter 9: Warm Me Up!
  • Chapter 10: Spinning on a Tilt
  • Chapter 11: Your Age on Other Planets

• Unit E: Kinds of Matter

  • Chapter 12: Model Molecules
  • Chapter 13: Element Trading Cards
  • Chapter 14: Ice Power

• Unit F: Forms of Energy

  • Chapter 15: Hovercraft
  • Chapter 16: To See or Not to See!
  • Chapter 17: Wooly Heat
  • Chapter 18: Fruity “Juice”

Grade 6

• Unit A: Continuity of Life

  • Chapter 1: Amazing Adaptations
  • Chapter 2: Hold the Salt!
  • Chapter 3: Bean Genes!
  • Chapter 4: Bird Buffet

• Unit B: The Changing Environment

  • Chapter 5: Water Cycle in a Jar
  • Chapter 6: Looking at Leaf Litter
  • Chapter 7: Population Simulation

• Unit C: The Dynamic Earth

  • Chapter 8: Mineral Treasure Hunt
  • Chapter 9: Mountain Builders
  • Chapter 10: Family Archaeology

• Unit D: Earth in the Universe

  • Chapter 11: Weather Tracking
  • Chapter 12: Make a Moon Map
  • Chapter 13: Your Weight on Other Planets

• Unit E: Matter and Its Properties

  • Chapter 14: Secret Scripting
  • Chapter 15: A Salty Solution

• Unit F: Energy, Forces, and Motion

  • Chapter 16: Energy Everywhere!
  • Chapter 17: Now You See Me, Now You Don't!
  • Chapter 18: Promoting Safety First
  • Chapter 19: Magnificent Machines!