This unit includes two delightful books by renowned children's author Pamela Allen and gives children the opportunity to grapple with two quite familiar phenomena - sinking and floating.

While the science required to fully understand sinking and floating is beyond the scope of young children, the unit presents opportunities:

• 1) to help students confront the simplistic (and incorrect) view that big/heavy things sink and little/light things float; and
• 2) to experience how science uses observation, experiments and evidence to explain the world around us.

This unit includes two delightful books by renowned children's author Pamela Allen and gives children the opportunity to grapple with two quite familiar phenomena - sinking and floating.

While the science required to fully understand sinking and floating is beyond the scope of young children, the unit presents opportunities:

• 1) to help students confront the simplistic (and incorrect) view that big/heavy things sink and little/light things float; and
• 2) to experience how science uses observation, experiments and evidence to explain the world around us.

Part of the Physical Science Series, this unit is introduced with Pamela Allen's beautifully illustrated book about a chase that evolves into a parade of colorful sounds.

The unit provides a series of appropriately-designed experiences that allow students to gather evidence to build the explanation that:

1) if I hear a sound, then something must be vibrating;
2) if I can make something vibrate, then it should produce a sound I can hear; and
3) if I can stop the vibrations of something that is making a sound, then the sound should stop.

Light, because it is ubiquitous in our lives, leads to a variety of incorrect or incomplete ideas by young children - light is in a bulb - light fills a space. Such ideas in turn lead to difficulties explaining the direction and formation of shadows and the reflection of light by objects.

Introduced by a cute story about a brother/sister team searching for the place where the dark spends the day, this important unit engages students in a series of activities designed to help students learn the national standards related to light.

Part of the Earth Science Series, this unit helps children begin to recognize patterns within the movement of celestial objects like the Sun and the Moon. The unit introduces the idea through a cute story about how two young cows learn how not to be late for supper.

Students then conduct a series of simple activities that help build an understanding that the Sun does move in predictable and repeatable patterns. Students make their own observations in order to build their understanding of Earth's place within the solar system.

How often are children asked upon a return from the bathroom - "Did you wash your hands?" and "Did you use soap?" Probably more than most adults can remember. But why is soap so important?

This beautifully illustrated story leads students into a series of activities centered on the unique properties of soap and why soap does what it does.

The brother/sister team of Ozzie and Alina are off on another adventure as they try to figure out their mother's cryptic reference to bluebird weather. What do bluebirds have to do with weather anyway?

This cute story introduces students to a series of activities about weather, including data collection activities, pattern recognition, and how both are used to make predictions about the future.

In the mid 1800s, Sara Coleridge wrote this beautiful poem relating the months of the year to their weather. Adapted, updated and combined with spectacular images, Paint the Sky - A Year of Weather, helps children develop an appreciation for, and understanding of, the magnificence of this world. The book is included in the Weather Unit.

This is an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's story, albeit with a much lighter tone. Beautifully illustrated and updated, this classic children's story is included in the Weather unit.

Children are introduced to important ideas about force and motion by a timeless group of characters - Dr. Dolittle, Dab-Dab the duck, and the Pushme-Pullyou in a brand new story entitled When We Were Young.

A series of simple activities then help students build an understanding that a force is a push or a pull and that forces can change an object's speed, it's direction or both. These precursor ideas are very important in the development of an understanding of physics and how the world works.

Part of the Earth Science Series, this unit helps children begin the development of their understanding that water can exist in different forms, depending on certain conditions.

The unit, introduced by a mystery involving a possible water thief, includes a variety of simple activities in which students are introduced to the concept of evaporation.

To develop an understanding of genetics and the inheritance of traits later on, students must first recognize similarities between young plants and young animals and their parents. Purposeful engagement of this idea naturally leads students to wonder why.

This unit from the Life Science Series is introduced by a book filled with spectacular photographs and text prompting students to consider the similarity and differences between parents and offspring. A series of simple activities follow to reinforce these important ideas.

This unit from the Life Science Series includes six different books - Ears, Eyes, Noses, Tails, Mouth & Teeth, and Locomotion - to introduce students to important concepts related to the relationship between structure and function - a foundational concept for an understanding why living things appear and operate as they do.

Spectacular photographs and text prompt students to consider why the world exhibits such variation among animals and plants. A series of simple activities follow to reinforce these important ideas.

This unit from the Life Science Series includes six different books - Ears, Eyes, Noses, Tails, Mouth & Teeth, and Locomotion - to introduce students to important concepts related to the relationship between structure and function - a foundational concept for an understanding why living things appear and operate as they do.

Spectacular photographs and text prompt students to consider why the world exhibits such variation among animals and plants. A series of simple activities follow to reinforce these important ideas.

This unit from the Life Science Series includes six different books - Ears, Eyes, Noses, Tails, Mouth & Teeth, and Locomotion - to introduce students to important concepts related to the relationship between structure and function - a foundational concept for an understanding why living things appear and operate as they do.

Spectacular photographs and text prompt students to consider why the world exhibits such variation among animals and plants. A series of simple activities follow to reinforce these important ideas.

This unit from the Life Science Series includes six different books - Ears, Eyes, Noses, Tails, Mouth & Teeth, and Locomotion - to introduce students to important concepts related to the relationship between structure and function - a foundational concept for an understanding why living things appear and operate as they do.

Spectacular photographs and text prompt students to consider why the world exhibits such variation among animals and plants. A series of simple activities follow to reinforce these important ideas.

This unit from the Life Science Series includes six different books - Ears, Eyes, Noses, Tails, Mouth & Teeth, and Locomotion - to introduce students to important concepts related to the relationship between structure and function - a foundational concept for an understanding why living things appear and operate as they do.

Spectacular photographs and text prompt students to consider why the world exhibits such variation among animals and plants. A series of simple activities follow to reinforce these important ideas.

This unit from the Life Science Series includes six different books - Ears, Eyes, Noses, Tails, Mouth & Teeth, and Locomotion - to introduce students to important concepts related to the relationship between structure and function - a foundational concept for an understanding why living things appear and operate as they do.

Spectacular photographs and text prompt students to consider why the world exhibits such variation among animals and plants. A series of simple activities follow to reinforce these important ideas.

From the Discovering Science Series, this unit includes spectacular photographs and poetry to help students develop an appreciation for the world in which we live. From a fuzzy red moth to the twinkling of the space station overhead, each poem and image help students recognize the many wonders of our world, leading students to want to learn more.

The unit can be presented in a variety of ways within the classroom and includes opportunities to engage parents in furthering learning at home.

The delightful brother/sister team of Ozzie and Alina team up to open this unit from the Life Science Series. The unit guides children to uncover evidence to support their understanding of what plants need to grow and thrive. In the process, they learn even more about the scientific process and how observations, experiments and evidence form the basis of what we know about the world.

Marcus loves to solve mysteries and after overhearing his grandfather, Marcus is determined to figure out more about the kudzu monster eating the tractor!

This fun book opens a unit from the Life Science Series. The unit guides children to uncover evidence to support their understanding of how plants can impact their environment.

Part of the Earth Science Series, this unit is introduced as Ozzie and Alina team up in a fun story that introduces students to the concept of a map.

The unit then guides children to begin the development of an understanding of how models (maps are one type of model) help us better understand our world.