Your textbook

Your notebook or loose-leaf for notetaking to be filed in binder

Your folder(s) w/ handouts and packets

Pen, pencil, red pen, 3 different colored highlighters, ruler, calculator

Memorize the Unit Vocabulary (use the vocabulary key)

Study handouts (ex. 5th Gr: Scientific Method, Photosynthesis)

Study the highlighted and starred sections in the Lessons

Review and Study each end of Lesson review. (For 5th grade :Lesson Check and Lesson Round-Up)

Review and Study the Unit Review

Remember many of the questions will be critical thinking problems that apply the concepts we learned to real world examples.