The following topics are covered in this grade level:
Circulatory and Respiratory Systems, Plants, Forces and Electricity, Heat and Temperature, Soil, Natural Resources, and Structures. Textbook includes: readings to reinforce the concepts presented in the classroom, numerous hands-on activities to enhance the lessons, colorful photographs, illustrations, graphs, and diagrams, a glossary of scientific terms (with pronunciation guides for more difficult words), questions to promote both recall and synthesis of ideas and concepts, sidebars with interesting information to enrich lessons, text layouts have been updated to include colored tabs to easily differentiate units, and unit and chapter page numbers appear in the table of contents for quick reference.
