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                                            Decomposers    Earth’s Systems The Atmosphere                                       The Water Cycle                                       Water on Earth                                         Weathering and Erosion    Space Systems Gravity                                                 Day and Night                                          The Sun and Stars                                      Patterns of Stars    Structure and Properties of Matter [more...]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                                            Decomposers    Earth’s Systems The Atmosphere                                       The Water Cycle                                       Water on Earth                                         Weathering and Erosion    Space 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 Reactions                                      Ideal 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  [...less]