Make science class a blast with these fun, easy-to-do experiments using everyday materials found around the home or classroom! These inquiry-based science activities help students discover interesting facts about the heart, lungs, bones, muscles, senses, and the brain. Contents Include: - 15 Experiments Plus Extension Activities - Glossary - Letter to Parents - Science Awards Experiments Include: - Left or Right Sided? - Food Tasting - Exercise & Pulse Rate - Dancing Hairpin - and Much More!

Students are sure to be fascinated by the interesting information found in this unit about the sun, planets, and moon. Accompanying each story is an activity page which requires the learner to use context clues to further demonstrate understanding. These short, high-interest articles and activities will boost vocabulary, research, and reading comprehension skills! Topics Include: - Sun - Earth - Moon - Solar System - The Dwarf Planet

This unit contains fascinating facts about space. The first part of the book features the natural objects in space, such as stars, black holes, comets, and meteors. The second part deals with man-made space objects, such as the space shuttle, space station, and satellites. This helpful resource also includes comprehension questions, research activities, and review pages Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 4-12

The lessons in this unit are based on essential vocabulary associated with plants, including trees, flowers, fungi, and vegetables. - From Flower to Fruit - How Mushrooms Grow - Which part of the vegetable do we eat? - Seeds, Leaves, Stems, Roots As students progress through the 27 exercises featured, they become familiar with 150 plant words by practicing basic skills in reading, comprehension, spelling, and writing. Reinforcement activities range from completing sentences through context clues, matching words and definitions, endings, sentence writing, labeling, categorizing, and much more. A separate Plant Vocabulary page is included.

Make science class a blast with these fun, easy-to-do experiments using everyday materials found around the home or classroom! These inquiry-based science activities help students discover interesting facts about gravity, magnetism, and electricity. Contents Include: - 15 Experiments Plus Extension Activities - Glossary - Letter to Parents - Science Awards Experiments Include: - Floating Paper Clip - Magnetizing a Nail - Balancing Forks - The Impaled Potato - and Much More!

Grade Level: 4-8 Make science class a blast with these fun, easy-to-do experiments using everyday materials found around the home or classroom! These inquiry-based science activities help students discover interesting facts about plants, food, bacteria, cells, seed germination, and more. Contents include 15 experiments plus extension activities, glossary, letter to parents, and science awards. 40 pages. Experiments Include: Soda Fountain Starch Test Sponge Garden Sugar Secret Code and Much More!

Grade Level: 4-8 Make science class a blast with these fun, easy-to-do experiments using everyday materials found around the home or classroom! These inquiry-based science activities help students discover interesting facts about the heart, lungs, bones, muscles, senses, and the brain. Contents include 15 experiments plus extension activities, glossary, letter to parents, and science awards. 40 pages. Experiments Include: Left or Right Sided? Food Tasting Exercise & Pulse Rate Dancing Hairpin And Much More!

Grade Level: 4-8 Make science class a blast with these fun, easy-to-do experiments using everyday materials found around the home or classroom! These inquiry-based science activities help students discover interesting facts about the properties of air and water. Contents include 15 experiments plus extension activities, glossary, letter to parents, and science awards. 39 pages. Experiments Include: Melting Ice Cube Balancing Balloons Egg in the Bottle Mixing Oil & Water and Much More!

Grade Level: 4-8 Make science class a blast with these fun, easy-to-do experiments using everyday materials found around the home or classroom! These inquiry-based science activities help students discover interesting facts about gravity, magnetism, and electricity. Contents include 15 experiments plus extension activities, glossary, letter to parents, and science awards. 39 pages. Experiments Include: Floating Paper Clip Magnetizing a Nail Balancing Forks The Impaled Potato and Much More!

Reading Comprehension | Science | Fiction/Nonfiction Pairing | John Muir Supports Best Practices in Reading by Pairing Science-Based Nonfiction Stories with Fiction Stories on the Same Topic! Each exciting and fact-filled story is accompanied by a dynamic, colorful, realistic illustration that brings the story to life and enhances the content. The nonfiction story gives a detailed, scientific explanation of the topic. The matching fiction story makes the topic relatable to everyday life. Reading Skills Follow-up questions and activities help build important comprehension skills and strategies shared by and unique to nonfiction and fiction stories. By reading the stories and completing the accompanying activities, students will have a much greater understanding of these two key genres of reading. “John Muir” The nonfiction story sets up the fiction story with interesting facts about the famous naturalist John Muir and how he helped to preserve our forests and national parks. “Father of the Forest” The fiction story is told from the viewpoint of an ancient tree and tells what the tree has seen throughout its lifetime. Questions & Activities Each story is followed by who, what, when, where, why, and how type questions. Additional skill-specific questions for each story include: Main Idea, Locating Information, Fact or Opinion, Sequencing, Cause & Effect, Conclusion, Inference, Summarizing, and Picture Interpretation. Vocabulary activities include: vocabulary matching, word search, and context. Details: Each short story is about 350 words and is written at a 3.2 to 5.0 reading level according to the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Scale. The interest level is grades 3 and up. Contents Include: • 2 high-interest, illustrated, short stories • 10 pages of questions and activities • Glossary • Answer Key • 18 total pages

Reading Comprehension | Science | Fiction/Nonfiction Pairing | Fossils Supports Best Practices in Reading by Pairing Science-Based Nonfiction Stories with Fiction Stories on the Same Topic! Each exciting and fact-filled story is accompanied by a dynamic, colorful, realistic illustration that brings the story to life and enhances the content. The nonfiction story gives a detailed, scientific explanation of the topic. The matching fiction story makes the topic relatable to everyday life. Reading Skills Follow-up questions and activities help build important comprehension skills and strategies shared by and unique to nonfiction and fiction stories. By reading the stories and completing the accompanying activities, students will have a much greater understanding of these two key genres of reading. “Fossils” The nonfiction story sets up the fiction story by answering the questions: “What is a fossil?” and “How are fossils formed?” “Bulldozers & Bones” The fiction story tells about an exciting fossil discovery a young boy makes while helping his dad excavate some land to build a house. Questions & Activities Each story is followed by who, what, when, where, why, and how type questions. Additional skill-specific questions for each story include: Main Idea, Locating Information, Fact or Opinion, Sequencing, Cause & Effect, Conclusion, Inference, Summarizing, and Picture Interpretation. Vocabulary activities include: vocabulary matching, word search, and context. Details: Each short story is between 330 and 375 words and is written at a 2.9 to 4.4 reading level according to the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Scale. The interest level is grades 3 and up. Contents Include: • 2 high-interest, illustrated, short stories • 10 pages of questions and activities • Glossary • Answer Key • 18 total pages

Promote students' thinking skills with the 22 dictionary and writing activities in this book. Each exercise spotlights an associated group of science topics – from “layers of the earth” to “spiny skinned invertebrate animals” to “spheres in nature.” The “Webbing” technique used throughout the book involves writing each featured word in one of the ovals provided, counting syllables, alphabetizing the words, using the words to answer questions, writing definitions, using them in sentences, locating requested words/terms using an encyclopedia, and more.

These high-interest, comprehensive, and easy-to-use activities focus entirely on building basic skills and cover the following subject areas: reading, writing, language, creative and critical thinking, science, social studies, and more! Students will read 12 short stories all about oceans. Each story introduces vocabulary words to know and is followed by a comprehension question. 18 Additional Activities Cover: - counting - context clues - following directions - critical thinking skills - alphabetizing - finding details - vocabulary - math word problems - grammar - comprehension - map reading - graphing - drawing solutions - thinking skills - and more!

These high-interest, comprehensive, and easy-to-use activities focus entirely on building basic skills and cover the following subject areas: reading, writing, language, creative and critical thinking, science, social studies, and more! Students will read 12 short stories all about deserts and desert animals. Each story introduces vocabulary words to know and is followed by a comprehension question. 18 Additional Activities Cover: - counting - context clues - following directions - critical thinking skills - alphabetizing - finding details - vocabulary - math word problems - grammar - comprehension - map reading - graphing - drawing solutions - thinking skills - and more!

Give your students a clear understanding of the body systems with this comprehensive and informative unit! From “nerves” to the sense of “smell” and “tasting” to “lung” functions, students will learn about three major systems of the human body in this 28-lesson unit. As students gain a better understanding of the human body, they enhance their reading and comprehension skills. Examples: - What is the difference between “sensory nerves” and “motor nerves?” - What part of the eye is the “iris?” - What part of the ear is a hollow, snail-shaped bone? - How is oxygen used by the body? Contents Include: - Glossary - Preview Pages - Vocabulary Lists - Informative Readings - Fact pages - Diagrams - Experiments - Crossword puzzle and word search that can be used as pre/post tests Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 5-12

The essential vocabulary associated with weather conditions, instruments, and forecasting are covered in this unit. Students will also learn about these different kinds of clouds: nimbus, cirrus, cumulus. The 24 lessons featured emphasize word definitions and word usage in context. Students become familiar with over 60 “weather” words by practicing basic skills in reading, comprehension, spelling, and writing. Reinforcement activities range from completing sentences from context clues, writing sentences, identifying syllables, vowel sounds and endings, word searches, and puzzles. A separate Weather Vocabulary page is included.

The essential vocabulary pertaining to specific systems of the human body and anatomy are covered in this unit – specifically the circulation, digestion, excretion, muscular, nervous, reproduction, respiratory, and skeletal systems. Example: Cross out the word that does NOT belong: bladder, tendon, kidney, liver. As students progress through the 27 lessons featured, they gain practical knowledge with 120 relevant words by practicing basic skills in reading, comprehension, word definition, spelling, and writing. Reinforcement activities include writing definitions, categorizing, matching, answering questions, completing sentences, puzzles, and much more. The separate vocabulary list makes a useful reference tool. A glossary of terms unique to each system is accompanied by an accurate diagram to enhance comprehension.

The essential vocabulary pertaining to the solar system, galaxies, and the universe, as well as vocabulary associated with space exploration are covered in this unit. Example: The planets turn on this axis, or ___, as they travel around the sun. As students progress through the 26 exercises featured, they gain practical knowledge about these fields of science. Simultaneously, they become familiar with 75 “space” words by practicing basic skills in reading, comprehension, word definition, spelling, and writing. Reinforcement activities range from writing definitions, matching, completing sentences through context clues, sentence writing, identifying syllables, puzzles, and much more. A separate Space Vocabulary page is included.