Contents
National Science Education Standards: Content Standards K-4 Matrix
National Science Education Standards: Content Standards 5-8 Matrix
Alignment With A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts and Core Ideasi Matrix
Chapter 1: Historical Use of Trade Books in the Science Classroom
Chapter 2: Why Use Trade Books to Teach Science?
Chapter 3: Thought-Provoking Questions, by Christine Anne Royce
Goldilocks and the Three Bears and June 29, 1999
Chapter 4: A Closer Look, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan
You Can Use a Magnifying Glass and Hidden Worlds: Looking Through a Scientist’s Microscope
Chapter 5: Science Measures Up, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan
Measuring Penny and How Tall, How Short, How Far Away?
Chapter 6: Going Wild With Graphs, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan
Giraffe Graphs and Tiger Math: Learning to Graph From a Baby Tiger
Chapter 7: Wild About Data, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan
The Great Graph Contest and Collecting Data in Animal Investigations
Chapter 8: Taking Note of Natural Resources, by Christine Anne Royce
Weslandia and Just a Dream
Chapter 9: Words to the Wild, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan
Pond Walk and Salamander Rain: A Lake and Pond Journal
Chapter 10: Into the Woods, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan
In the Woods: Who’s Been Here? and The Woods Scientist
Chapter 11: Discover Reading, by Christine Anne Royce
Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein and Reaching for the Moon
Chapter 12: How It’s Made, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan
How Is a Pencil Made? and Transformed: How Everyday Things Are Made
Chapter 13: It’s About Time, by Christine Anne Royce
How Do You Know What Time It Is? and On Time: From Seasons to Split Seconds
Chapter 14: If You Build It …, by Christine Anne Royce
How a House Is Built and Bridges: Amazing Structures to Design, Build, and Test
Chapter 15: Imaginative Inventions, by Christine Anne Royce
Imaginative Inventions and So You Want to Be an Inventor?
Chapter 16: Let’s Try It Out in the Air, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan
Let’s Try It Out in the Air: Hands-On Early-Learning Science Activities and I Face the Wind
Chapter 17: A Balancing Act, by Christine Anne Royce
Mirette on the High Wire and The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
Chapter 18: Gravity Is a Mystery
I Fall Down and Gravity Is a Mystery
Chapter 19: Roller Coasters! by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan
Roller Coaster and Roller Coaster! Motion and Acceleration
Chapter 20: Secrets of Flight, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan
Animals in Flight and How People Learned to Fly
Chapter 21: Flick a Switch, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan
Why Should I Save Energy? and Flick a Switch: How Electricity Gets to Your Home
Chapter 22: The Wonder of Water, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan
I Get Wet and A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder
Chapter 23: Kitchen Chemistry
Pancakes for Breakfast and Acids and Bases: Why Chemistry Matters
Chapter 24: Secrets of Seeds, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan
Seeds and Seeds
Chapter 25: Pumpkins! by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan
Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden and How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?
Chapter 26: Flower Power, by Christine Anne Royce
Planting a Rainbow and The Reason for a Flower
Chapter 27: Crazy for Loco Beans, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan
Lucas and His Loco Beans: A Bilingual Tale of the Mexican Jumping Bean and A Monarch Butterfly’s Life
Chapter 28: Seeing and Sorting Shells, by Christine Anne Royce
Seashells by the Seashore and Seashells, Crabs, and Sea Stars
Chapter 29: Unusual Creatures, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan
Triops: A Very Unusual Creature and Crab Moon
Chapter 30: Can You See Me Now? by Christine Anne Royce
Red Eyes or Blue Feathers: A Book About Animal Colors and Hide and Seek: Nature’s Best Vanishing Acts
Chapter 31: Survival Skills, by Christine Anne Royce
Animal Defenses: How Animals Protect Themselves and Beaks!
Chapter 32: Antarctic Adaptations, by Christine Anne Royce
The Emperor's Egg and Penguins!
Chapter 33: The Mystery of Migration, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan
Going Home: The Mystery of Animal Migration and Great Migrations: Whales, Wildebeests, Butterflies, Elephants, and Other Amazing Animals on the Move
Chapter 34: Whoo Eats What? by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan
Whoo Goes There? and White Owl, Barn Owl
Chapter 35: A Habitat Is a Home, by Christine Anne Royce
I See a Kookaburra! Discovering Animal Habitats Around the World and The Salamander Room
Chapter 36: Exploring Your Environment, by Christine Anne Royce
I Took a Walk and Secret Place
Chapter 37: You Are What You Eat! by Christine Anne Royce
Gregory, the Terrible Eater and Science News for Kids: Food and Nutrition
Chapter 38: Moving My Body, by Christine Anne Royce
What’s Inside Me? My Bones and Muscles and Movers and Shapers
Chapter 39: Science From the Heart, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan
Hear Your Heart and The Heart
Chapter 40: Disease Detectives, by Christine Anne Royce
Germs Are Not for Sharing and What Are Germs?
Chapter 41: Rock Solid Science, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan
If You Find a Rock and Rocks: Hard, Soft, Smooth, and Rough
Chapter 42: Rocking Around the Rock Cycle, by Christine Anne Royce
Let's Go Rock Collecting and The Rock Factory
Chapter 43: The Dirt on Soil, by Christine Anne Royce
Dirt and A Handful of Dirt
Chapter 44: Fascinating Fossil Finds, by Christine Anne Royce
Fossils Tell of Long Ago and Dragon in the Rocks: A Story Based on the Early Childhood of Paleontologist Mary Anning
Chapter 45: Mysteries of the Past, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan
Prehistoric Actual Size and Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs
Chapter 46: Earthquakes! by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan
Earthquakes and Earthquakes
Chapter 47: Delving Into Disasters, by Christine Anne Royce
The Blizzard and Hurricanes!
Chapter 48: Cloud Watchers, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan
Fluffy, Flat, and Wet: A Book About Clouds and The Man Who Named the Clouds
Chapter 49: Weather Watchers, by Christine Anne Royce
The Cloud Book and Weather Forecasting
Chapter 50: Sunrise, Sunset, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan
Day and Night and Somewhere in the World Right Now
Chapter 51: Moon Phases and Models, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan
Phases of the Moon and The Moon Book
Chapter 52: Seeing Stars, by Christine Anne Royce
Out and About at the Planetarium and The Constellations: Stars and Stories