WorldCom Edu American Textbook Reading Series - Science Book 3 Sample

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Part 1 Life Science



01 Living and Nonliving Things 10


02 Plant Parts 16


03 Growth and Change 22


04 Animals with and without Backbones 28


05 Plant Adaptations 34















Part 2 Earth Science




06 Soil 42

07 Fossils 48


08 Different Types of Natural Resources 54


09 Parts of Weather 60


10 Day, Night, and Seasons 66









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Part 3 Physical Science



11 Describing Matter 74


12 Changing Matter 80


13 Exploring Magnets 86


14 Position and Motion 92


15 Sound Waves 98















































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Student Book

Visual Summary
The visual summary uses images
with key vocabulary and other
related words to introduce the main
Title concept of the lesson. The visual
This is what the lesson summary is also an aid for word
is about. association, reinforcing the meaning
of the words within context.





































Key Vocabulary

These are new words for students Up Close
to learn in the lesson.
The meaning of each word is This expands on the key vocabulary
or the lesson’s main idea. This gives
below it.
students a greater level of
understanding of related knowledge.










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Review 1
There are three different types of
exercises here. One type is to complete Exercise
the sentences describing pictures. This exercise will test
Another one is to write words using students’ understanding
their first letters and pictures. The other of the written definition of
one is to choose the words that best the key vocabulary.
complete the sentences. These exercises
will help students remember and better
understand the key vocabulary they
have learned on the previous page.




































Review 2
Here there are new pictures that
relate to the key vocabulary.
Different pictures help students True or False
learn a new word and remember it. This exercise makes students
think carefully about each
statement.










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Reading

The passage is the main part
of the lesson. It contains all Comprehension
the key vocabulary and other These questions test students’
words students have been comprehension of the
learning in this lesson. passage. They also test
Students have been preparing students’ ability to remember
for the passage in the previous
what is written in the passage.
pages. This makes it easier for
students to comprehend the
passage.




































Reading Skill Critical Thinking
Each passage incorporates the use These questions stimulate
of skills such as finding the main critical thinking, which is an
idea, sequencing, comparing and important part of the
contrasting, classifying, etc. learning process. This
Organizing information from the section will help students
passage in the chart helps develop their reading skills.
students identify and understand
key concepts or key parts of the
passage. This aids students’
comprehension of the passage.



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Workbook





Vocabulary 1
These exercises test students’ ability to remember the meanings
of words using pictures as a guide.






































Vocabulary 2
These exercises make students Listen & Write
use the key vocabulary words Students can practice their
in a context that is different listening skills. A native
from that in the passage. This speaker of English reads the
increases students’ passage aloud, and this allows
understanding and ability to students to hear the proper
use the words. pronunciation of words.











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Track
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More Vocabulary
live
breathe
to be alive to take air into

the body and
send it out
again
grow


to become bigger or taller oxygen
over a period of time a gas that
living things
need

change healthy

strong and well
to become different






reproduce

to make more living things
of the same kind






die


to no longer be alive






move


to go from one place to another





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Living
Things



grow change move reproduce






Nonliving
Things


do not
do not grow do not change do not move
reproduce




















All Living Things














Grow Change Reproduce

The baby drinks milk The girl can talk, walk, The woman has a baby
from her mother, so she and eat by herself. of her own.
can grow.




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Look at the pictures and complete the sentences.



1.
Eggs into chicks.
≲

2.

How did the bird ?


3.
Birds in the nest.



4.
Snails slowly.



5.
Chickens by laying eggs.



6.
≲ Chicks into chickens.












Choose the correct characteristic for each picture.




1. 2. 3.












a. reproduce a. do not move a. grow

b. do not grow b. change b. do not reproduce


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Choose the correct word for each definition.




1. to make more living things of the same kind


live


2. to become different grow


change
3. to no longer be alive

reproduce
4. to become bigger or taller over a period of time
die


move
5. to be alive



6. to go from one place to another




















Circle T for true, F for false.



1. A living thing can’t move but it can reproduce. T / F


2. Nonliving things do not grow or change. T / F


3. A living thing becomes taller and bigger. T / F








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Read the passage. Complete the chart. Track
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Living and Nonliving Things


In the world, there are living things and

nonliving things. A living thing is something

that is alive. A chick is a living thing. A chick

lives in a nest. It needs space to live in.
A chick breathes air. Air has oxygen in it. Almost all living things

need oxygen to live. A chick needs to eat and drink. Food and water

help keep the chick healthy . It grows and changes into a chicken.

Living things can reproduce . A chicken can make an egg. A chick
comes from an egg. One day, the chicken will die . All living things

die. Some things do not die because they have never been alive. They

are called nonliving things. Rocks are nonliving things. They do not

breathe or grow. Rocks do not need to eat or drink. A rock does not
move by itself. Nonliving things cannot reproduce.






READING SKILL Compare and Contrast



Living Things Nonliving Things

Living things are A . Nonliving things are not A .


Living things need food, water, Nonliving things do not need food,
and B . water, or B .


Living things C Nonliving things do not

and change. C or change.

Living things can Nonliving things cannot make new
D . things like themselves.



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Choose the correct answer.



1. What is the name of something that is alive?


a. nest b. oxygen c. chicken



2. All will die one day.

a. living things b. nonliving things c. things



3. A nonliving thing does not grow, .

a. but it needs to breathe air
b. but it can move by itself

c. but a living thing grows and changes



4. Living things need food and water, .

a. but they don’t need oxygen to live

b. and they also need space to live in
c. and some nonliving things need to eat, too













Write the correct answer.




1. What is the reason that nonliving things do not die?






2. Name three examples of living things.








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