Interactive Notebooks provide students with a way to organize their thoughts as they learn. They also act as educational portfolios for teachers to monitor and track student performance. Interactive Notebooks are a great resource for student learning and they provide neat spaces for students to keep their learning over the course of a year in one systematic area.

These performance standards aligned pages were created to help you and your students prepare their Science Interactive Notebooks.
This packet includes:

-26 performance standard aligned reading passages that are age-appropriate yet incredibly detailed
-a graphic organizer to be used with each reading passage
-answer sheets for graphic organizers included
-86 vocabulary cards and definitions

Topics covered include:
-what is a human cell
-how are cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, and organisms related
-how organelles help cells function
-what a single-celled organism is
-what a microorganism is
-what a germ is
-harmful bacteria
-helpful bacteria
-viruses
-helpful fungi
-harmful fungi
-how we can get rid of germs
-what to do if germs get inside of our bodies
-how we group living things
-each group of classification
-vertebrates and their characteristics
-the classes of vertebrates (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals)
-invertebrates and their characteristics
-vascular and nonvascular plants
-angiosperms and gymnosperms
-monocots and dicots
-what happens at the beginning of the human life cycle
-how parents pass their characteristics on to their young
-how dominant and recessive genes work
-what a Punnett Square is
-instinctual and learned behaviors and environment