| Introduction: Celebrate Basic Science Skills | 7 |
| Skills Checklist | 8 |
| Skills Exercises | 9 |
| Is It Alive? (Life Characteristics) | 10 |
| Not Alive! (Life Characteristics) | 11 |
| What Good Are Plant Parts? (Plant Parts) | 12 |
| Which Happened First? (Plant Life Cycles) | 13 |
| Bugs in the Flower Bed (Animal Classification) | 14 |
| Going Buggy! (Animal Classification) | 15 |
| Mixed-up Zoo (Animal Classification) | 16 |
| What Do Animals Wear? (Animal Coverings) | 17 |
| Animals on the Move (Animal Movements) | 18 |
| Animal Footprints (Animal Tracks) | 19 |
| Danger! (Animal Protection) | 20 |
| Something Is Wrong! (Animal Homes) | 21 |
| A Place to Belong (Animal Habitats) | 22 |
| Body Parts You Can See (Body Parts) | 24 |
| Body Parts You Can't See (Body Parts) | 25 |
| What an Amazing Body! (Body Systems) | 26 |
| Body Talk (Body Vocabulary) | 27 |
| Which Body Part? (Senses) | 28 |
| Use Your Senses (Senses) | 29 |
| A Choosy Shopper (Healthy Eating) | 30 |
| Take Care (Healthy Habits) | 31 |
| Good Ideas (Healthy Habits) | 32 |
| More Good Ideas (Safety) | 33 |
| Places in Space (Earth Sun Moon) | 34 |
| The Spinning Earth (Day and Night) | 35 |
| When Seasons Change (Seasons) | 36 |
| Hot, Cold, or in Between? (Seasons Temperature) | 37 |
| What's out There? (Objects in Space) | 38 |
| What You See in the Sea (The Ocean) | 39 |
| A Fish on the Hook (Land and Water) | 40 |
| Disappearing Dinosaurs (Dinosaurs) | 42 |
| Old Bones and Fossils (Fossils) | 43 |
| Three Kinds of Matter (Forms of Matter) | 44 |
| Solid or Liquid? (Solids and Liquids) | 45 |
| Things Are Changing (Changes in Matter) | 46 |
| Oh! What Air Can Do! (Air Properties) | 47 |
| How Much Air? (Air Properties) | 48 |
| Happy Floating (Water Properties) | 49 |
| X out Pollution (Pollution) | 50 |
| Which Weather? (Weather) | 51 |
| Pushing and Pulling (Force) | 52 |
| A Big Attraction (Magnets) | 53 |
| Scrambled Pictures (Electricity) | 54 |
| Appendix | |
| Science Words to Know | 55 |
| Science Skills Test | 58 |
| Answer Key | 61 |
