Books with title Skill Sharpeners Math, Grade 4

Build your child s understanding of physical, life, and earth science with this full-color activity book! Engaging activities and hands-on projects will motivate your fifth grader to learn science concepts that are based on the most current science standards.The simple experiments, using materials that can easily be found at home, help your child understand and retain science concepts in a memorable way.Each lesson includes reading selections and activities that focus on one science concept, covering the following fifth grade topics:Organisms and Ecosystems-How Plants Get Food-Food Webs-Adaptations-DecomposersEarth s Systems-The Atmosphere-The Water Cycle-Water on Earth-Weathering and ErosionSpace Systems-Gravity-Day and Night-The Sun and Stars-Patterns of Stars Structure and Properties of Matter-Physical Properties-Mixtures and Solutions-Chemical Properties-Chemical ReactionsIdeal for practice at home and classroom enrichment, Skill Sharpeners: Science:-provides practice of reading comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills-offers striking photography and scientific illustrations to help children connect science to the real world-is based on Next Generation Science Standards and state science standards-includes an answer key

Skill Sharpeners: Geography engages your child in exploring the world while learning important map skills and geography concepts. The cross-curricular activities integrate the most current geography standards.Each geography topic includes nonfiction reading selections, comprehension questions, vocabulary practice, writing prompts, and authentic activities that bring the concepts to life. These activities invite your child to be creative while using higher-order thinking skills.The reading selections and activities take students beyond basic geographic understandings and into unique ecosystems, biomes, places and regions, histories, cultures, and social movements within our world. Students make personal connections to their learning by completing expository and creative writing activities as well as hands-on geography projects.Engaging concepts covered include:-Storms on Earth-Special places on Earth-Iceland-Unique trees-Death Valley and deserts-Landform maps-Colliding plates-Altitudes-Immigration-Angel Island-UNESCO-Dealing with water-Scuba diving-Sea pirates-Sea travelIncludes answer key.

Build your second grader s understanding of physical, life, and earth science with this full-color activity book! Engaging reading selections, activities, and hands-on projects will motivate your child to learn science concepts that are based on the most current science standards.The simple hands-on activities help your child understand and retain science concepts in a memorable way.Each lesson includes reading selections and activities that focus on one science concept, covering the following second grade topics:-Physical Science-Matter-Changes in Matter-Forces and MotionForces at Play-Life Science-My Body-Body Parts-Animal Life Cycles-Plants-HabitatsSpace and Earth Science-Space-The Sun-WeatherEarth s Systems-Geology-Water and IceScience and Engineering -Science-EngineeringIdeal for practice at home and classroom enrichment, Skill Sharpeners: Science:-provides practice of reading comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills-offers striking photography and scientific illustrations to help children connect science to the real world-is based on Next Generation Science Standards and state science standards-includes an answer key

Common Core Top Pick for Language and Reading Literature and Informational TextLanguage-Conventions of Standard English-Vocabulary Acquisition and UseReading Literature and Informational Text-Key Ideas and Details-Integration of Knowledge and IdeasSkill Sharpeners Reading, Grade 5 provides 12 motivating fiction and nonfiction stories. For example:Fiction Stories:-"The Tiger and the Jackals"-"Old Bragwynn the Pirate" -"How Shalbus Egbert Bested the Bear " Nonfiction Stories:-"Tracking Tornadoes" -"Silkworms"-"Joy Adamson: Living with Lions" Activity pages include:-comprehension questions-a vocabulary exercise for every storyOther skills addressed include the following:-critical thinking-interpreting graphic information-reading with expression-analyzing characters

Skill Sharpeners: Geography engages your child in exploring the world while learning important map skills and geography concepts. The cross-curricular activities integrate the most current geography standards.Each geography topic includes nonfiction reading selections, comprehension questions, vocabulary practice, writing prompts, and authentic activities that bring the concepts to life. These activities invite your child to be creative while using higher-order thinking skills.The reading selections and activities take students beyond basic geographic understandings and into unique ecosystems, biomes, places and regions, histories, cultures, and social movements within our world. Students make personal connections to their learning by completing expository and creative writing activities as well as hands-on geography projects.Engaging concepts covered include:-Old and new navigation-GPS coordinates-Dinosaur-Making mountains-Major volcanoes-Unique habitats-Human migrations in history-Indigenous peoples-World religions-World farming traditions-Modern transportation-National borders-Special animals around the worldIncludes answer key.