Table of Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xii
Presentation Suggestions xvi
Bonus Features xx
References xxiii
Reading Level, First Grade
Flowers and Plants (Learning about Plants) 3
Creepy, Crawly Things (Learning about Animals) 9
It's Alive (Living and Nonliving Things) 15
This Is Hard! (Liquids, Solids, and Gases) 19
It's a Dirty Job (Our Earth) 25
High Above (Looking at the Sky) 32
Look at Me! (Growing and Changing) 37
We're All Together (Families Together) 42
Pals (My Friends) 48
Where I Learn (Our School) 53
Reading Level, Second Grade
Flower Power (How Plants Grow) 61
Terrible Lizards (Dinosaurs) 67
It's Hot, It's Bright! (Heat and Light) 75
Water, Water Every where (Water) 81
Weather, or Not! (Weather) 87
Taking Care of Me (Keeping Healthy) 96
Hip, Hip, Hooray! (The Fourth of July) 103
The First Thanksgiving (The Pilgrims of Plymouth) 109
Reading Level, Third Grade
Pollution Solution (Ecology) 121
Round and Round (Life Cycles) 127
A Machine World (Simple Machines) 133
Hear, Hear (Sound) 140
Let's Rock and Roll! (Changes in the Earth) 148
Far, Far Away (Sun, Moon, and Planets) 154
All Together Now (Communities) 162
It's the Law! (Needing Rules and Laws) 172
Resources 179
Teacher Resources 182
Nonfiction Children's Books 184
Index 187
