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Home sweet home. Organisms must live in the right habitat to survive. And when their needs are met, the right environment enables plants and animals to thrive. From the desert to the tundra, learn about food webs, animal niches, climates, and other features of various biomes and their ecosystems in this life science book.
The colorful images and fun facts in this high-interest informational text will get third grade students excited about exploring different types of biomes and the living and nonliving elements of the ecosystems found within them. Featuring a hands-on Think Like a Scientist lab activity that is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards, this book helps students apply what they've learned in the book and supports STEM instruction. Helpful diagrams and text features, such as a glossary and index, are also included to improve content-area literacy.
Living!
Grade: PK-1
Price: $9.99
Can you spot whether something is living or not living? Learn all about living things and inanimate objects in this colorful, engaging science reader! Readers will be able to easily comprehend these familiar examples.
Baby Animals
Grade: PK-1
Price: $9.99
Learn all about baby animals in this bright and colorful science reader! Young readers will love the vibrant photos of these adorable baby animals. With the help of familiar examples, students will learn the names of their favorite animals' babies.
Seeds
Grade: K-1
Price: $9.99
Learn all about seeds and how they grow! The vibrant images and simple text engage students while helping them easily comprehend how seeds come in many shapes and sizes, what seeds need to grow, how seeds are spread, and more!
What Do Living Things Need?
Grade: PK-1
Price: $9.99
What do living things need to survive? Find out in this colorful science reader! Discover that living things need light, food, water, air, space, homes, protection, and more!
Growing Up
Grade: K-1
Price: $9.99
Learn all about what it means to grow up! Every living thing grows up. Some things get bigger, some get faster, some get hairier, and more. Discover how various living things grow up with the help of easy-to-read text and vibrant images.
I Spy
Grade: PK-1
Price: $9.99
Learn how to sort with this science reader! Follow along as children play "I Spy" to identify objects by color, shape, and more. This title includes fun, easy examples to help guide young readers into understanding sorting and categorizing everyday items.
Tell Me About It
Grade: PK-1
Price: $9.99
Teach young students how to describe things with the help of this reader! Describe familiar objects by their texture, temperature, shape, speed, size, age, and more! Easy-to-read text and vibrant images will keep readers engaged from start to finish.
Solid or Liquid?
Grade: K-1
Price: $9.99
Identify what is a solid and what is a liquid with this science reader! Students will see images of familiar objects and the easy-to-read, clear text will help them learn how to identify solids and liquids. Learn how some solids can turn into liquids!
Nature Made
Grade: K-1
Price: $9.99
Learn about all the things we use from nature! We use trees for wood, the sun for energy, sand for bricks, metal for tools, and more. We even eat the plants that nature gives us!
Here Comes the Sun
Grade: PK-1
Price: $9.99
Learn about the sun and all that it does for us! The sun gives us light, keeps us warm, helps plants grow, gives us energy, and more. We need the sun. The vibrant images and easy-to-read text in this reader will engage students from cover to cover!
What Is the Weather?
Grade: K-1
Price: $9.99
Learn all about different types of weather in this vibrant, fun reader! Students will learn about weather and how it makes people feel. Sunny weather makes people warm, while windy weather makes people chilly.
Changing Weather
Grade: PK-1
Price: $9.99
See how the weather can change the look of an everyday street in this fun science reader. With clear text and engaging images, readers will see how the sun, clouds, rain, and other types of weather change the appearance of a neighborhood street.
On Land
Grade: K-1
Price: $9.99
Learn all about the land! Sometimes the land is hilly or flat, wide or narrow, rocky or smooth, high or low, wet or dry, and even empty or full. With the help of easy-to-read text and exquisite images, children will learn how to describe the land.
On Water
Grade: PK-1
Price: $9.99
Learn all about water in this fascinating, fun science reader! Water covers most of the Earth and is in oceans, lakes, ponds, swamps, rivers, and streams. Readers will see that water is all around us!
Too Much Trash!
Grade: PK-1
Price: $9.99
Learn how to keep Earth clean of trash in this informative science reader! Students will learn that trash can be very harmful, causing pollution that harms the water, land, air, birds, fish, and people. Readers will be encouraged to keep the planet clean!
Sort It!
Grade: K-1
Price: $9.99
Learn how to sort like a scientist by using your senses to categorize items and identify similarities and differences. This NGSS-aligned book will engage kindergarten students as they develop scientific practices and content-area literacy.
What Makes a Plant?
Grade: 1-2
Price: $9.99
What makes a plant? Find out in this vibrant science reader! Plants are living things that go through a life cycle. Learn all about this cycle and what plants need to live and grow.
Inside a Plant
Grade: 1-2
Price: $9.99
Plants need many things to stay alive, including food, sun, air, and water. Plants must get these important things in order to continue to go through a life cycle. Learn all about various habitats and the way that plants have adapted to survive in them.
Raising Babies: What Animal Parents Do
Grade: 1-2
Price: $9.99
Learn how animal parents raise their babies! These parents protect, play with, and teach their young so that their babies can grow big and strong. Animal parents feed and bathe their babies and keep them safe.
Growth and Change
Grade: 1-2
Price: $9.99
Follow along and see how different kinds of baby animals grow and change! Even though baby animals all look very different, they all have the same basic needs to grow up. Learn about baby penguins, kittens, blue whales, pandas, frogs, snakes, and more!
All in the Family
Grade: 1-2
Price: $9.99
Learn all about traits and how they make you who you are! Discover how shared traits make offspring look like their parents. While members of the same species may look alike because of their common traits, they each have unique traits.
How Sound Moves
Grade: 1-2
Price: $9.99
Sounds are all around us. Learn how the sounds we hear travel in waves in this exciting science reader! Learn about sound wave vibrations and the science behind how our ears hear sound.
Message Received!
Grade: 1-2
Price: $9.99
Sight and sound help us understand the world around us. Sounds travel to our ears and we see images with our eyes. Learn the science behind how your eyes and ears work together to receive messages in this science reader!
Light Makes a Rainbow
Grade: 1-2
Price: $9.99
Learn the science behind how light makes a rainbow of different colors in this colorful reader! A rainbow happens when light goes through water drops from the rain.
Shadows
Grade: 1-2
Price: $9.99
Shadows are everywhere! Learn all about why we have shadows and why sometimes they are short and sometimes they are tall. Vibrant images pair with easy-to-read text to help simplify science topics and keep students engaged from cover to cover.
How Heat Moves
Grade: 1-2
Price: $9.99
Learn how heat moves in and out of our bodies. Heat is the energy of moving molecules. This reader uses practical, everyday examples to help children understand these scientific concepts.
The Seasons
Grade: 1-2
Price: $9.99
Learn all about the seasons in this science reader! The seasons go in a cycle each year from winter to spring to summer to autumn. The cycle always continues! Vibrant images pair with easy-to-read text to keep students engaged from cover to cover.
Our Sun
Grade: 1-2
Price: $9.99
The sun gives us warmth and light. It also helps make the seasons change. Learn about all the ways that the sun is very important to our planet!
Earth and Moon
Grade: 1-2
Price: $9.99
The Earth and the moon are always moving! Learn all about how the moon travels around the Earth and why the moon looks different from night to night. The moon goes through different phases based on its position in relation to the Earth and the sun.
Looking Up!
Grade: 1-2
Price: $9.99
Discover all the cool things you can see in the night sky! Learn all about telescopes and how they help us see the moon and stars up close. The vibrant images in this book keep students engaged and excited about astronomy.
A Garden in the City
Grade: 1-2
Price: $7.99
All readers can build fluency by acting out this leveled script! This story about a garden in the city includes six differentiated roles, allowing students at varying reading levels to all participate and feel successful.
Amazing Animals
Grade: 1-2
Price: $7.99
Act out the story of Brian, a boy who loves amazing animals! This charming reader includes six differentiated roles, allowing teachers to accommodate different reading levels. All readers will feel confident and successful while building fluency.
From the Sun to Beyond Pluto
Grade: 3-4
Price: $7.99
All readers can build fluency by acting out this leveled script! This story about a journey through the solar system includes six differentiated roles, allowing students at varying reading levels to all participate and feel successful.
Touchdown of the Wrong Kind
Grade: 5-6
Price: $7.99
Act out the story two boys who survived a tornado and learn how to prepare for another disaster. Differentiated roles in this script allow teachers to accommodate a range of reading levels, so all students can feel successful while building fluency!
TIME For Kids: Practicing for Success: STAAR Science: Grade 5
Grade: 5
Price: $10.99
Expand grade 5 students' science knowledge and prepare them for the STAAR Science test through practice exercises. This resource for Texas educators mirrors the multiple-choice format of the STAAR Science test, and addresses TEKS Science standards.
TIME For Kids: Practicing for Success: STAAR Science: Grade 5 (Spanish Version)
Grade: 5
Price: $10.99
Expand grade 5 students' science knowledge and prepare them for the STAAR Science test through practice exercises. This resource for Texas educators mirrors the multiple-choice format of the STAAR Science test, and addresses TEKS Science standards.
TIME For Kids: Practicing for Success: STAAR Science: Grade 5 Teacher's Guide
Grade: 5
Price: $5.99
Help students become confident and successful test takers with support from this teacher's guide, the perfect partner to Practicing for Success: STAAR Science: Grade 5.
Little Things Matter
Grade: 5-6
Price: $7.99
Act out the story of children who study science while celebrating a friend's birthday! This reader includes leveled roles, allowing teachers get all students involved in the performance. All readers will feel successful while building fluency.
Investigating Storms
Grade: 4-6
Price: $10.99
From thunderstorms to jet streams, storms come in many different forms! Learn about rainstorms, sandstorms, hailstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, and even blizzards in this thrilling, nonfiction book.
Weather Scientists
Grade: 4-6
Price: $10.99
Readers are introduced to some of the most important weather scientists that ever lived in this engaging book! Learn about Galileo, Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, Benjamin Franklin, and Tetsuya Theodore Fujita.
The World of Rocks & Minerals
Grade: 4-6
Price: $10.99
What is the difference between a rock and a mineral? Readers will learn the answer to that and much more in this informational text! Igneous rock, sedimentary rock, metamorphic rock, geologists, and gemstones are some of the topics introduced.
The First Geologists
Grade: 4-6
Price: $10.99
This fascinating book will introduce readers to those who made big discoveries in geology. Readers will learn about such early geologists as James Hutton, William Smith, Alfred Wegener, Florence Bascom, and Friederich Mohs.
Inside the Water Cycle
Grade: 4-6
Price: $10.99
Explore the water cycle in this fascinating book! Readers will learn the various steps of the water cycle--including evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
Water Scientists
Grade: 4-6
Price: $10.99
Mohammed Karaji, Edmond Halley, Henry Darcy, and Pelageia Polubarinova-Kochina are some of the most important water scientists highlighted in this nonfiction book. This book also features a captivating hands-on lab activity.
Investigating Landforms
Grade: 4-6
Price: $10.99
Earth's surface is always changing and scientists study landforms to learn about these changes. Destructive forces like earthquakes and volcanoes are discussed as well as weathering and erosion from water runoffs.
Pioneers of Earth Science
Grade: 4-6
Price: $10.99
Gerardus Mercator, John Wesley Powell, Grove Karl Gilbert, William Morris Davis, Albrecht Penck, and Florence Bascom are some of the incredible geologists and geographers that readers will learn about in this biographical title.
Investigating Plate Tectonics
Grade: 4-6
Price: $10.99
In this adventurous title, readers learn all about plate tectonics! A brief history of Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift introduces readers to the development of plate tectonics and how it helped form the Earth we know today.
Alfred Wegener
Grade: 4-6
Price: $10.99
In this appealing biography, children will read about the fascinating life, theories, and discoveries of Alfred Wegener. Readers will be eager to learn more about Wegener's contributions to the science of plate tectonics.
The Wonder of Our Solar System
Grade: 4-6
Price: $10.99
Come along and explore the wonders of our solar system in this exciting title! This book will engage readers as they learn about the sun, the eight planets in our solar system, the Milky Way Galaxy, constellations, dwarf planets, asteroids, and comets!
Astronomers Through Time
Grade: 4-6
Price: $10.99
Readers will be captivated as they learn about astronomers such as Galileo Galilei, Carl Sagan, and Henrietta Swan Leavitt and how their work made impacts on the field of astronomy.
The Wonder of Outer Space
Grade: 4-6
Price: $10.99
Explore the wonders of space in this title that uses vivid images, fascinating facts, and easy-to-read text to delight and engage readers! Readers will learn all about space and the various ways people have explored and learned about astronomy for years!
From Hubble to Hubble
Grade: 4-6
Price: $10.99
Telescopes and high-tech equipment help astronomers explore deep space. This captivating title introduces readers to some of the most notable scientists who helped develop technology that allows for space exploration.
Spaceship Earth
Grade: 4-6
Price: $10.99
This book asks readers to imagine Earth as a spaceship with a limited amount of resources. Readers will learn about important topics like global warming, greenhouse gases, deforestation, pollution, biodiversity, and other environmental issues.
Rachel Carson
Grade: 4-6
Price: $10.99
Rachel Carson is one of the most influential leaders of the modern environmental movement. This enlightening biography allows readers to discover the inspiring life of Carson and the impact she made on the environment.
Inside the World of Matter
Grade: 3-6
Price: $10.99
Readers will learn about the basics of matter, including the three states of matter--solid, liquid, and gas--as well as atoms and elements, the periodic table of elements, compound elements, and mixtures.
Max Planck
Grade: 3-6
Price: $10.99
Max Planck is one of the most well-known physicists of all time! This interesting biography highlights his incredible life and what he did to make strides in the field of physics.
Investigating the Chemistry of Atoms
Grade: 3-6
Price: $10.99
In this fascinating book on physical science, readers will discover some of the basics of physics, including matter, Atomic Theory, alchemy, electrons, neutrons, protons, nucleus, and radioactivity.
Marie Curie
Grade: 3-6
Price: $10.99
Readers will learn all about Marie Curies incredible life and how she discovered and worked with radium for many years in this fascinating biography. Learn about her Nobel Prize and how radiation helps people all over the world.
All About Energy
Grade: 3-6
Price: $10.99
From kinetic to heat, readers will explore energy, how it works, and the various kinds in this stimulating book! Fossil fuels, potential energy, nuclear energy, wind and wave energy, and recycling are some of the topics that are discussed.
Albert Einstein
Grade: 3-6
Price: $10.99
Albert Einstein is probably the most well-known physicists who ever lived. Learn about Einstein's life as a scientist and his many accomplishments--from explaining photoelectric effect to Brownian motion and his theories of relativity--in this biography.
