Graphic Organizers
Grade 1
Unit A: Plants, Animals, and People
- Chapter 1: Plants
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Are the Parts of a Plant?
- Lesson 2: How Can Plants Be Sorted?
- Lesson 3: How Do Plants Change as They Grow?
- Chapter 2: Animals
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Do Animals Use Their Parts?
- Lesson 2: How Are Animals Grouped?
- Lesson 3: How Do Animals Grow and Change?
- Chapter 3: People
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Do People Use Their Parts?
- Lesson 2: How Do People Grow and Change?
Unit B: Living Things and Where They Live
- Chapter 4: Living Things
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Is a Living Thing?
- Lesson 2: What Do Living Things Need?
- Chapter 5: Where Plants and Animals Live
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Lives in Forests?
- Lesson 2: What Lives in Oceans and Wetlands?
- Lesson 3: What Lives in Deserts?
Unit C: Earth, Our Home
- Chapter 6: Looking at Our Earth
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Covers Earth?
- Lesson 2: How Do People Use Rocks and Minerals?
- Lesson 3: What Is Soil?
- Chapter 7: Caring for Our Earth
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Do We Use Air?
- Lesson 2: How Do We Use Water?
- Lesson 3: How Can We Help Earth?
Unit D: Weather and the Sky
- Chapter 8: Weather and Seasons
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Is Weather?
- Lesson 2: How Can You Measure Weather?
- Lesson 3: What Are Clouds and Rain?
- Lesson 4: What Is Weather Like in Spring and Summer?
- Lesson 5: What Is Weather Like in Fall and Winter?
- Chapter 9: Changes in the Sky
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Can You See in the Sky?
- Lesson 2: What Causes Day and Night?
- Lesson 3: How Does the Moon Seem to Change?
- Lesson 4: How Does the Sun Seem to Move?
Unit E: Describing Matter
- Chapter 10: Observing Objects
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Can You Describe Matter?
- Lesson 2: How Can You Use Tools to Observe?
- Lesson 3: What Does a Magnet Attract?
- Lesson 4: What Floats and What Sinks?
- Chapter 11: Changes in Matter
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What are Solids, Liquids, and Gases?
- Lesson 2: What Do Heating and Cooling Do?
- Lesson 3: What Happens When You Mix Things?
Unit F: Energy Sources and Motion
- Chapter 12: Heat, Light, and Sound
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: Where Does Heat Come From?
- Lesson 2: Where Does Light Come From?
- Lesson 3: How Is Sound Made?
- Lesson 4: How Are Sounds Different?
- Chapter 13: Moving Faster and Slower
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Makes Things Move?
- Lesson 2: What Things Move Fast and Slow?
- Lesson 3: What Things Speed Up or Slow Down?
Grade 2
Unit A: Plants and Animals
- Chapter 1: Plants Are Living Things
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Are the Needs of Living Things Different?
- Lesson 2: How Do Plants Meet Their Needs?
- Lesson 3: How Can Plants Be Grouped?
- Lesson 4: How Do Plants Change During Their Life Cycles?
- Chapter 2: Animals Are Living Things
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Animals Are Mammals and Birds?
- Lesson 2: What Are Reptiles, Amphibians, and Fish?
- Lesson 3: How Do Animals Meet Their Needs?
- Chapter 3: Animal Life Cycles
- Concept
- Reading Skill
Unit B: Environments and Energy
- Chapter 4: Environments
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Makes Up an Environment?
- Lesson 2: What Is a Stream Habitat?
- Lesson 3: What Is a Woodland Habitat?
- Lesson 4: How Do Environments Change?
- Chapter 5: Energy Needs
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Do Plants and Animals Get Energy?
- Lesson 2: How Do People Get Energy?
Unit C: Treasures From Earth
- Chapter 6: Rocks, Soil, and Fossils
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Makes Up Rocks and Soils?
- Lesson 2: How Do Rock and Soil Change?
- Lesson 3: What Are Fossils?
- Chapter 7: Using and Saving Resources
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Resources Do People Use?
- Lesson 2: How Do People Change the Environment?
- Lesson 3: How Can People Save Resources?
Unit D: Patterns in the Sky
- Chapter 8: Weather Patterns
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Does Weather Change?
- Lesson 2: What Is the Pattern of the Seasons?
- Lesson 3: How Do Living Things Change with the Seasons?
- Chapter 9: Motions in the Sky
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Makes Up the Solar System?
- Lesson 2: How Does Earth Move?
- Lesson 3: How Does the Moon Move?
- Lesson 4: What Stars Can You See?
Unit E: Matter and Energy
- Chapter 10: Comparing Matter
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Can You Group Matter?
- Lesson 2: How Does Matter Change?
- Lesson 3: How Does Matter Look Up Close?
- Chapter 11: Making Sound
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Is Sound Made?
- Lesson 2: How Does Sound Travel?
- Lesson 3: How Do Sounds Change?
Unit F: Motion and Forces
- Chapter 12: Objects in Motion
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Do Things Move?
- Lesson 2: What Do Forces Do?
- Lesson 3: What Can You Do With Motion?
- Chapter 13: Magnets
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Can Magnets Do?
- Lesson 2: What Materials Do Magnets Attract?
- Lesson 3: Through Which Materials Do Magnets Work?
Grade 3
Unit A: How Living Things Function
- Chapter 1: Parts of Plants
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Do Plants Meet Their Needs?
- Lesson 2: How Do Parts Help Classify Plants?
- Lesson 3: How Do Their Parts Help Plants Survive?
- Chapter 2: Classifying Animals
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: Which Animals Are Vertebrates?
- Lesson 2: Which Animals Are Invertebrates?
- Lesson 3: Which Animals?
- Chapter 3: Living Things Grow and Reproduce
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Are Plant Life Cycles?
- Lesson 2: What Are Some Animal Life Cycles?
- Lesson 3: Can Living Things Vary?
Unit B: Living Things in Their Environment
- Chapter 4: Survival of Living Things
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Are the Needs of Living Things?
- Lesson 2: How Do Living Things Compete
- Lesson 3: How Do Adaptations Help Living Things?
- Lesson 4: What Happens When Habitats Change?
- Chapter 5: Food Chains
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Do Living Things Get Energy?
- Lesson 2: What Is a Food Chain?
- Lesson 3: What Are Some Different Food Chains?
Unit C: Earth's Surface
- Chapter 6: Earth's Crust
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Is Earth's Surface Like?
- Lesson 2: How Does Earth's Crust Change?
- Lesson 3: Where Does Soil Come From?
- Chapter 7: Protecting Earth's Resources
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Are Natural Resources?
- Lesson 2:What Are Energy Resources?
- Lesson 3: How Can Resources Be Conserved?
Unit D: The Earth in Space
- Chapter 8: Patterns in Earth's Atmoshpere
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Is the Water Cycle?
- Lesson 2: How Does Weather Change Each Day?
- Lesson 3: What Is Climate?
- Chapter 9: Our Solar System
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Do Scientists Use Telescopes?
- Lesson 2: What Is the Solar System?
- Lesson 3: What Are the Inner Planets?
- Chapter 10: Cycles and Patterns in Space
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Causes Day and Night?
- Lesson 2: What Are the Phases of the Moon?
- Lesson 3: What Is a Star?
Unit E: Matter
- Chapter 11: Matter Changes
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Are Physical Properties?
- Lesson 2: What Is a Physical Change in Matter?
- Lesson 3: What Is a Chemical Change in Matter?
- Chapter 12: Mixtures
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Are Mixtures Made?
- Lesson 2: How Can Mixtures Be Separated?
- Lesson 3: What Are Solutions?
Unit F: Energy and Change
- Chapter 13: Forms of Energy
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Is Energy Stored and Released?
- Lesson 2: What Are Waves?
- Lesson 3: What Is Electrical Energy?
- Chapter 14: Heat, Temperature, and Light
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Is Heat?
- Lesson 2: What Is Temperature?
- Lesson 3: What Is Light?
- Chapter 15: Force and Motion
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Do Forces Affect Objects?
- Lesson 2: How Can Motion Be Described?
- Lesson 3: What Are Simple Machines?
Grade 4
Unit A: Organization of Living Things
- Chapter 1: Life Processes
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Are Living Things Organized?
- Lesson 2: How Do Plants Carry Out Life Processes?
- Chapter 2: Human Body Systems
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Is the Digestive System?
- Lesson 2: What Are the Circulatory and Respiratory Systems?
- Lesson 3: What Are the Skeletal and Muscular Systems?
- Chapter 3: Life Cycles
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Do Plant Life Cycles Vary?
- Lesson 2: How Do Animal Life Cycles Vary?
- Lesson 3: How Are Offspring Like Their Parents?
- Chapter 4: Responses of Living Things
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Do Living Things Detect Stimuli?
- Lesson 2: What Are Inherited and Learned Behaviors?
Unit B: Ecosystems
- Chapter 5: Parts of Ecosystems
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Are Nonliving Parts of Ecosystems?
- Lesson 2: What Are Living Parts of Ecosystems?
- Lesson 3: What Are Some Roles of Living Things?
- Chapter 6: Matter and Energy in Ecosystems
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Does Energy Flow in a Food Web?
- Lesson 2: How Is Matter Cycled in an Ecosystem?
- Chapter 7: Adaptation and Extinction
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Are Organisms Adapted to Survive?
- Lesson 2: What Threatens the Survival of Species?
- Lesson 3: What Do Fossils Tell About the Past?
Unit C: The Solid Earth
- Chapter 8: Forces that Shape Earth's Surface
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Is the Rock Cycle?
- Lesson 2: What Are Rapid Surface Changes?
- Lesson 3: What Are Slow Surface Changes?
- Chapter 9: Managing Earth's Resources
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Are Renewable Resources?
- Lesson 2: What Are Nonrenewable Resources?
- Lesson 3: How Can Resources Be Conserved?
Unit D: The Atmosphere and Beyond
- Chapter 10: Using Weather Data
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Is Air?
- Lesson 2: How Does the Water Cycle Affect Weather?
- Lesson 3: What Causes Weather?
- Lesson 4: How Does Climate Change?
- Chapter 11: Looking at the Universe
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Is the Sun Important to Earth?
- Lesson 2: What Are the Outer Planets?
- Lesson 3: How Do Earth and Its Moon Move?
- Lesson 4: What Are Galaxies and Constellations?
Unit E: The Nature of Matter
- Chapter 12: Properties of Matter
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Makes Up Matter?
- Lesson 2: How Is Matter Measured?
- Lesson 3: What Are Physical and Chemical Properties?
- Chapter 13: How Matter Changes
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Are Physical Changes in Matter?
Unit F: Energy and Motion
- Chapter 14: Energy Changes
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Does Energy Change Form?
- Lesson 2: How Does Light Behave?
- Lesson 3: How Does Sound Behave?
- Lesson 4: What Is Thermal Energy?
- Chapter 15: Electricity and Magnetism
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Is Static Electricity?
- Lesson 2: What Is Electric Current?
- Lesson 3: What Is a Magnet?
- Lesson 4: How Do Electromagnets Work?
- Chapter 16: Motion and Machines
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Can Motion Be Described?
- Lesson 2: What Are Gravity and Friction?
- Lesson 3: How Do Simple Machines Work?
Grade 5
Unit A: The Life Processes
- Chapter 1: Cells
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Are the Parts of a Cell?
- Lesson 2: How Do Single-Celled Organisms Live?
- Lesson 3: How Do the Cells of Organisms Compare?
- Lesson 4: How Are Cells Organized?
- Chapter 2: Plant Systems
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Do Plants Produce Food?
- Lesson 2: How Do Plants Move Materials?
- Lesson 3: How Do Plants Reproduce?
- Chapter 3: Traits of Living Things
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Are Traits Inherited?
- Lesson 2: Why Are Some Traits Very Common?
Unit B: Interactions Among Living Things
- Chapter 4: Ecosystems, Communities, and Biomes
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Do Living Things Form Communities?
- Lesson 2: What Are Biomes?
- Lesson 3: What Is a Food Web?
- Chapter 5: Life in Ecosystems
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Are Habitats and Niches?
- Lesson 2: What Factors Affect Ecosystems?
- Lesson 3: How Can Humans Change Ecosystems?
Unit C: Earth Systems
- Chapter 6: Earth's Changing Surface
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Makes Up Earth's Surface?
- Lesson 2: How Is Earth's Surface Worn Down?
- Lesson 3: How Is Earth's Surface Built Up?
- Chapter 7: Earth's Structure
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Is Earth's Structure?
- Lesson 2: What Are Earthquakes and Volcanoes?
- Lesson 3: How Do Mountains Form?
- Chapter 8: Using Resources Wisely
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Do People Use Resources?
- Lesson 2: How Do People Use Soil?
- Lesson 3: How Can People Use Resources Wisely?
Unit D: Atmosphere and Solar System
- Chapter 9: Weather and Climate
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Factors Affect Climate?
- Lesson 2: How Are Weather Forecasts Made?
- Chapter 10: Earth and Its Moon
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Causes Earth's Seasons?
- Lesson 2: Why Does the Moon Have Phases?
- Chapter 11: Exploring Space
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Orbits the Sun?
- Lesson 2: What Are the Planets Like?
- Lesson 3: What Are Stars Like?
Unit E: Kinds of Matter
- Chapter 12: Structure of Matter
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Are Elements?
- Lesson 2: What Is the Periodic Table?
- Lesson 3: What Are Compounds?
- Chapter 13: Characteristics of Matter
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Can Materials Be Identified?
- Lesson 2: How Does Matter Change?
- Lesson 3: What Are Solutions and Mixtures?
- Chapter 14: Changes of State
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Are Three States of Matter?
- Lesson 2: How Does Matter Change State?
Unit F: Forms of Energy
- Chapter 15: Forces, Motion, and Work
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Can Change an Object's Motion?
- Lesson 2: How Do We Use Simple Machines?
- Lesson 3: What Forces Come From Magnets?
- Chapter 16: Energy and Waves
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Are Kinetic and Potential Energy?
- Lesson 2: How Are Sounds Made?
- Lesson 3: What Are Some Properties of Light?
- Chapter 17: Temperature and Heat
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Is Thermal Energy?
- Lesson 2: How Does Thermal Energy Spread?
- Chapter 18: Electrical Energy
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Is Electricity Produced?
- Lesson 2: What Is An Electric Current?
- Lesson 3: How Do People Use Electricity?
Grade 6
Unit A: Continuity of Life
- Chapter 1: Classifying Organisms
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Do Scientists Classify Organisms?
- Lesson 2: How Are Plants Classified?
- Lesson 3: How Are Animals Classified?
- Chapter 2: Cell Structure and Function
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Do Cells Do?
- Lesson 2: How Are Cells Specialized?
- Lesson 3: How Does Disease Affect Cells?
- Chapter 3: Reproduction and Heredity
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Do Organisms Reproduce and Grow?
- Lesson 2: How Do Organisms Inherit Traits?
- Lesson 3: How Is Genetic Information Transferred?
- Chapter 4: Change Over Time
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Do Fossils Reveal?
- Lesson 2: How Do Species Change?
Unit B: The Changing Environment
- Chapter 5: Cycles in the Biosphere
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Do Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Cycle?
- Lesson 2: How Do Nitrogen and Water Cycle?
- Lesson 3: How Does Energy Cycle in Ecosystems?
- Chapter 6: Earth's Ecosystems
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Are Earth's Ecosystems?
- Lesson 2: What Roles Do Species Play?
- Lesson 3: What Relationships Do Species Have?
- Chapter 7: Populations
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Limits Population Growth?
- Lesson 2: What Are Biodiversity and Succession?
Unit C: The Dynamic Earth
- Chapter 8: The Rock Cycle
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Chapter 9: The Dynamic Earth
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Chapter 10: Earth's Energy Resources
- Concept
- Reading Skill
Unit D: Earth in the Universe
- Chapter 11: Global Weather Systems
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: Why Does Weather Occur?
- Lesson 2: What Are Global Weather Patterns?
- Lesson 3: How Can Storms Be Tracked?
- Chapter 12: Earth, Moon, and Sun
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Does the Sun Affect Earth?
- Lesson 2: How Do Eclipses Occur?
- Lesson 3: What Causes Tides?
- Chapter 13: The Solar System and Beyond
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: How Do Scientists Study the Planets?
- Lesson 2: What Have Scientists Learned About Stars?
Unit E: Matter and Its Properties
- Chapter 14: Composition of Matter
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Are Building Blocks of Matter?
- Lesson 2: What Is a Compound?
- Lesson 3: What Properties Do Solutions Have?
- Lesson 4: What Are Acids and Bases?
- Chapter 15: Physical and Chemical Changes
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Is Physical Change?
- Lesson 2: What Is Chemical Change?
- Lesson 3: What Are Types of Chemical Reactions?
Unit F: Energy, Forces, and Motion
- Chapter 16: Energy
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Is Conservation of Energy?
- Lesson 2: How Do Waves Transfer Energy?
- Lesson 3: How Is Thermal Energy Transferred?
- Chapter 17: Light and Its Properties
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Is the Electromagnetic Spectrum?
- Lesson 2: How Does Light Interact With Matter?
- Chapter 18: Electricity and Magnetism
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Are Static and Current Electricity?
- Lesson 2: How Are Electricity and Magnetism Related?
- Chapter 19: Motion, Gravity, and Work
- Concept
- Reading Skill
- Lesson 1: What Are Speed, Velocity, and Acceleration?
- Lesson 2: What Are Newton's Laws?
- Lesson 3: How Do Machines Help Make Tasks Easier?