Reading Strategies for Science
from Shell Education
(Primary, Intermediate, Middle School)
Learn practical standards-based strategies to help students understand content-area material. This resource provides detailed strategies and activities with classroom examples by grade ranges. Specific suggestions for differentiating instruction for English language learners, gifted students, and below-grade level students are included with every strategy. Includes a zip file of customizable graphic organizers and other student activities.
Grades: 1 - 8

Writing Strategies for Science
from Shell Education
(Primary, Intermediate, Middle School)
Learn practical standards-based strategies to help students understand content-area material. This resource provides detailed strategies and activities with classroom examples by grade ranges. Specific suggestions for differentiating instruction for English language learners, gifted students, and below-grade level students are included with every strategy. Includes a zip file of customizable graphic organizers and other student activities.
Grades: 1 - 8

The New Activities Handbook for Energy Education
from Good Year Books
(Intermediate, Middle School)
Students investigate solutions to real-life energy conservation situations with more than 120 hands-on activities that call for reasoning and creative problem solving skills. Chapters address energy sources, uses, conservation, and dilemmas, and each include background information, Did You Know?, National Science Education Standards, Does It Make Sense?, and website connections.
Grades: 3 - 6

More Super Science with Simple Stuff
from Good Year Books
(Intermediate, Middle School)
Students learn to state a scientific problem; predict results; gather, record, and graph data, and draw conclusions. Includes more than 90 activities, step-by-step directions, and explanations of scientific principles.
Grades: 3 - 6

Creative Sciencing: Experiments for Hands-on Learning
from Good Year Books
(Intermediate, Middle School)
Kids are brimming with questions, and here's where they get the chance to find the answers for themselves. This teacher resource book provides more than 130 hands-on activities that prompt students to make eye-opening discoveries in biology, chemistry, earth science, environmental science, and physics.
Grades: 4 - 8

Just the Facts: Life Science
from Carson-Dellosa Publications
(Intermediate, Middle School)
Over 100 standards-based life science activities will engage young scientists and prepare them for standardized tests. Through a variety of activities such as crossword, word search, and vocabulary puzzles, students will build a solid foundation of science vocabulary and concepts including simple life forms, plants, animals, human body systems, and adaptations. Students will be able to use this newly acquired knowledge to complete the creative writing, graphing, and data analysis exercises included in the book.
Grades: 4 - 6

Just the Facts: Earth and Space Science
from Carson-Dellosa Publications
(Intermediate, Middle School)
Over 100 standards-based earth and science activities will engage young scientists and prepare them for standardized tests. Through a variety of activities such as crossword, word search, and vocabulary puzzles, students will build a solid foundation of science vocabulary and concepts including fossils, earthquakes, the atmosphere, and the solar system. Students will be able to use this newly acquired knowledge to complete the creative writing, graphing, and data analysis exercises included in the book.
Grades: 4 - 6

Science Fair Handbook
from Good Year Books
GYB9781596472105 (Intermediate, Middle School)
Here's everything you need to drive a winning science fair-from start to finish, in a single classroom or school wide! Packed with practical ideas, creative resources and websites, judging guidelines, planning guide, and project timetables, this book reduces stress and helps create a positive learning experience. A forward by Isaac Asimov inspires and motivates projects.
Grades: 4 - 8

Science Skill Builders for Grades 4-5
from Weekly Reader Publishing
WRPEWR196 (Intermediate)
Science Skill Builders for Grades 4-5 develops students' competencies in both reading and science with these innovative lessons. Each six-page lesson begins with a two-page science article adapted from one of Weekly Reader's award-winning classroom magazines, followed by two pages of reading comprehension and vocabulary activities. Each lesson concludes with two pages of simple hands-on science activities that model the scientific process. The 20 lessons cover a range of topics in life, physical, earth and health science.
Grades: 4 - 5