The microscope — every part, every job
The words name the world; the microscope is how the class looks at it. Thirteen parts on one machine — meet each one, then prove it two ways: find the part, and name the job. The printed page is the same review with a pencil, key included.
The eight units, one door each
Study cards, hints that teach instead of telling, and a practice quiz for every unit — from living things to heredity.
The fifteen words
Straight from the unit's own student page, word for word. Every one of them is taught inside an activity — this is only so you can see them all in one place, and so the list prints.
| essential | adj. | If something is essential, it is absolutely necessary. |
| photosynthesis | n. | Photosynthesis is the process by which a green plant uses the sun's energy to make food for the plant. |
| resources | n. | Resources are things that are available and ready to be used to meet needs. |
| synthesis | n. | Synthesis is the result of putting things together. |
| uniquely | adv. | Uniquely means unlike other things or the only one of its kind. |
| chlorophyll | n. | Chlorophyll is the green substance found in almost all plants. |
| chloroplasts | n. | Chloroplasts are the parts of a plant's cells in which photosynthesis takes place. |
| glucose | n. | Glucose is a simple sugar. |
| integral | adj. | If a thing is integral, that thing is necessary for something to be whole or for something to do its job. |
| chemistry | n. | Chemistry is the science that deals with how things are made up and how they change when they interact with other things. |
| chemical | adj. | The word chemical describes something related to the makeup of substances; it has to do with chemistry. |
| molecule | n. | A molecule is a very small amount of matter, formed by combining two or more atoms. |
| carbon dioxide | n. | Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a colorless, odorless gas that occurs naturally. |
| microbes | n. | Microbes are very tiny living organisms. |
| opposite | n. | The opposite is something that is completely different from another thing, as up is to down. |
Run these on your own word list
Paste your list below and the activities that can honestly run it will pick it up on this computer. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is shared — it is stored in this browser, next to the student work, and the same Erase everything button removes it.
The last two are optional. What you give decides which activities can run: the meaning is enough for Match the Meaning; a sentence adds Say It in a Sentence; a group adds Which One Doesn't Belong. Build the Word and Picture It stay on this unit's words, because they need each word's own pieces and its own picture — and they will say so on screen rather than run half of themselves.
Five ways into the same fifteen words
For the teacher
<b>Eight items, three sets, on every activity.</b> Items 1–5 are the unit's science words and 6–8 are the words science borrows from everywhere — the same split in every set, so the band grid on the printed record stays true when you switch a student to Set 2 mid-week.
<b>Independent, supported, hints, confidence.</b> The teacher panel at the bottom of each activity builds that row for you, and Print this record turns it into a one-page probe sheet with the item-by-item map. A hint is never a penalty — it is the thing that tells you what to teach next.
<b>Send a link, get a row back.</b> Share an activity's address with a student, or put it on the board with the button under each card. When the page can reach your Sheet, a Send button appears after a finished set — one tap posts one row to the <b>Practice</b> tab: activity, set, independent, supported, hints, confidence, and the first name the student types. Nothing else ever travels.
<b>A bare link stays private.</b> On a device with no path to your Sheet the Send button never appears, and the lock section on every page tells the student the truth for the mode it is in — including that it has no way to send anything at all.
<b>Your own list is a per-computer thing.</b> It is stored in this browser, so a student's device will still show this unit's fifteen words unless the list is loaded there too. That is on purpose: a word list is a small thing, and it is not worth building an account to move it.