Physical Description:ix, 246 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm. Teacher's guide.
Publisher:White Plains, NY :Longman,c2006.
Content descriptions
General Note:
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
What is science? -- Meet a scientist -- Sciences -- Scientific method -- Safety -- Practicing the scientific method -- Science tools -- Visuals -- Science reading strategies -- Plants -- What is a plant? -- How plants work -- Experiment: Do plants grow toward the light? -- Animals -- What is an animal? -- Invertebrates and vertebrates -- Experiment: What traits do animals share? -- Rocks and minerals -- What are rocks and minerals? -- Earth's changing surface -- Experiment: How do rocks change? -- Planets and stars -- Solar system -- Beyond the solar system -- Experiment: How do you make a scale model? -- Matter -- What is matter? -- States of matter -- Experiment: How can you observe density? -- Sound and light -- Sound -- Light -- Experiment: What factors affect light? -- Glossary -- Index.