Expand fifth grade students' science knowledge and prepare English language learners for the STAAR Science test through extensive practice exercises. This Spanish resource for Texas educators mirrors the multiple-choice format of the STAAR Science test, and addresses TEKS Science standards. Each of the 25 practice exercises is four-pages long, and includes six multiple-choice questions that cover the four reporting categories: Matter and Energy; Force, Motion, and Energy; Earth and Space; and Organisms and Environments. With regular practice, students will reduce their test-taking anxiety as they build their confidence in taking standardized tests. This must-have resource includes correlations to the assessed standards, and will help students develop the test-taking skills that are needed for 21st-century success.
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
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: 3
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
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: 3
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
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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: 3
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
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: 3
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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
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: 3
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
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
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
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: 3
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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
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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: 3
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: 4
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
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: 4
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
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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: 4
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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
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.
