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Teachers will be magnetized when using the materials in this kit designed to help their students succeed on the current CST grade 5 science test.

Kids love rocks! This five-lesson unit begins with each student using a hand-lens to explore, sort, and classify rocks and minerals. Mohs Scale of Mineral Hardness and color-streak tests are used to help classify Earth's rock-building minerals in the second lesson.

How do water, wind, gravity, and temperature play a role in erosion? In four interactive lessons, students will wear safety goggles to demonstrate the forces of wind and the movement of water in the transportation and deposition of weathered rock.​

The interactions of biotic and abiotic factors found in different ecosystems begin this four lesson unit of study. Each small group is assigned a different habitat to discuss how the factors provide food and shelter for all animals found in the ecosystem. Examination of bobcat and jackrabbit skulls provides discussion of how animals adapt to their habitats.​

Energy on Earth begins with our Sun. Sunlight is the catalyst to photosynthesis and the promise of continued growth of producers, the first in line of an ecosystem's multiple food chains.​

Matter is everywhere! Matter surrounds you at all times! Matter is described as anything that has mass and takes up space. In this five lesson unit, students will discuss and observe the five phases of matter, density, viscosity, and conservation of mass.​

The Scientific Method is a five-lesson unit of study that allows students to develop and practice an organized pattern of thinking when investigating science. Students analyze collected data and draw conclusions while completing three different experiments.​

Waves and Their Applications is a four-lesson unit of study that allows students to develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move.