How Small Puzzle Pieces Make One Big Picture, Read and Answer

Give your child a set of building blocks: build one thing, take it apart and build something new from the same pieces. Then read the passage together and check each page with the answer key.

Read how bumps fit into holes to join jigsaw pieces and why edge pieces with a flat side make the frame. A piece is one small part of something bigger. The directions on the page read: Read the passage. Then, turn the page and answer the questions. On page 2: Circle the letter of the best answer for questions 1 to 3, and write the answers to questions 4 and 5 on the lines. The answer key covers the questions on page 2.

Yes, both. We made it for 2nd Grade material properties, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with physical changes. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

A physical change changes the size, shape or form of a material, but it is still the same material. When modeling clay is rolled into a snake and pressed into a bowl, it changes shape but is still clay. Melting and freezing are physical changes too.

Many objects are made of small pieces put together. On the toy brick page, Riley takes a house apart and uses the same 24 bricks to build a boat. The bricks do not change; only the shape they make does (2-PS1-3).

Mortar, a wet paste that dries hard, holds bricks together so they cannot slide. Log cabin builders cut a cup shaped notch near each end of a log so the logs fit at the corners, then fill the gaps with mud or a paste to keep out the wind and the cold.

Yes. All 6 sheets have an answer key.