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Teaching Science with Kidlit

NGSS PE 5-LS2-1. Develop a model that describes the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment. Try these book pairs:   For more suggestions and full lessons, check out Perfect Pairs:

Teaching Science with Kidlit

NGSS PE 5-PS3-1. Use models to describe that energy in animals’ food (used for body repair, growth, motion, and to maintain body warmth) was once energy from the sun. Try these book pairs:   For more suggestions and full lessons, check out Perfect Pairs:

Teaching Science with Kidlit

NGSS PE 5-LS1-1. Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water. Try this book pair:   For more suggestions and full lessons, check out Perfect Pairs:

Teaching Science with Kidlit

NGSS PE 4-ESS3-1. Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment. Try these book pairs: For more suggestions and full lessons, check out Perfect Pairs:

Teaching Science with Kidlit

NGSS PE 4-LS1-2. Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.  Try these book pairs: For more suggestions and full lessons, check out Perfect Pairs:

Teaching Science with Kidlit

NGSS PE 4-LS1-1. Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction. Try these book pairs: For more suggestions ad full lessons, check out Perfect Pairs:

Teaching Science with Kidlit

NGSS PE 4-LS1-1. Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction. Try these book pairs: For more suggestions and full lessons, check out Perfect Pairs:

Teaching Science with Kidlit

NGSS PE 3-LS4-4. Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change. Try these book pairs: For more suggestions and full lessons, check out Perfect Pairs:

Teaching Science with Kidlit

NGSS PE 3-LS4-3. Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all. Try these book pairs: For more suggestions and full lessons, check out Perfect Pairs:

Teaching Science with Kidlit

NGSS PE 3-LS4-2. Use evidence to construct an explanation for how variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing. Try this book pair: For more suggestions and full lessons, check out Perfect Pairs: