Read and Understand Science, Grades 1 - 2 presents stories that range from beginning first to beginning third in readability. The stories for grades 1-2 are comprised of four half pages. Students cut the pages and staple them together to create four-page minibooks.

Topics presented include:

• Life Science: leaves, baby/parent resemblance, growth needs of plants, animal tracks, the sea otter, tadpole to frog, the five senses, skeleton
• Physical Science: sink and float, light, properties of materials, combining materials, states of matter, water vapor, water freezing, surface tension
• Earth and Space Science: the sun, air, erosion, gravity, Earth"s rotation, composting
• Science and Technology: measuring temperature, machines, improving the function of a design

This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key. This is a reproducible resource (photocopying of lessons is permitted) for single classroom or individual home use only.