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Earth & Space Science
Students learn about space and the world around them in this exciting new program. The concepts taught are drawn from the curriculum for grades 1 through 3.
Targeted Skills
- Learn About Water
- Air
- Rocks
- Soil
- Weather
- Our Planet
- Space
Highlighted Features
- Introduces students to the differences between natural and man-made resource
- Thoroughly teaches and tests students on the properties, uses, varieties and environmental aspects of to water, air, rocks and soil
- Climate and extreme weather are explored and students are taught how to measure basic weather conditions
- Students are introduced to physical geography concepts like landforms, layers of the Earth and geographic change
- Lessons on the planets, the lunar phases and the orbits of the Moon, Earth and Sun teach students the basic principles of space science
- Instructional help files are presented in a format that allows for easy printing of this useful supplementary teaching tool
- Difficult words are “clickable” – allowing students to hear a sound clip of the spoken word
Resources
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