Warm Up to Science for Grade 5 offers student-centered engagement activities for immediate student involvement. Scientifically-based research supports the use of this form of frequent conceptual exposure to enhance student understanding.

Activities are designed to require five to ten minutes of class time and are written with the cognitive rigor demanded by the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). Students must use critical thinking skills as they are presented with content-specific activities or with visual stimuli including charts, graphs, and tables. Each activity may be used as an engagement for a new lesson, as a method to enhance retention, and as a means to support State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR) preparation. Activities are grouped by STAAR reporting categories and sequenced by specific TEKS number and student expectation.

Warm Up to Science in presented in an even-odd numbered page format. The even-numbered pages include supportive teacher notes and activity answer keys. The odd-numbered pages present the specific student activities that are easily photocopied for student use.

Student pages, TEKS, answer key, and notes to the teacher are all in Spanish.