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1 Readorium Scholar Books, Topics, and Vocabulary: Table of Contents: Earth Science Big Delicious Earth ………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 2 Cave Exploration …………………………………………………………………………………..……………….. 3 Continental Drift ……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 4 Earthquakes and Seismic Waves …………………………………………………………………………….. 5 Formation of Mountains and Deserts ……………………………………………………………………… 6 Learning from Natural Disasters ……………………………………………………………………………… 7 On the Move: Plate Tectonics …………………………………………………………………………………. 8 Pollution …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 9 Sea Floor Spreading ……………………………………………………………………………………….......... 10 Total Lunacy Phases, Eclipses, and Tides on Earth ………………………………………………….. 11 Volcanic Expedition ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 12 Space Science The Earth in Motion …………………………………………………………………………………..…………… 13 Inner and Outer Planets …………………………………………………………………………………..……… 14 Lives of Stars …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 15 Space Rocks ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 16 Life Science Becoming and Staying Healthy ………………………………………………………………………………… 17 Desert Biome …………………………………………………………………………………..……………………… 18 Genetics: Why We Look the Way We Do …………………………………………………………………. 19 The Importance of Coral Reefs ………………………………………………………………………………… 20 Life in the Tundra …………………………………………………………………………………..……………….. 21 Mitosis and Meiosis- The Formation and Growth of Human Life ……………………………… 22 Nature’s Weird Surprises ………………………………………………………………………………………… 23 Our Bodies: The Most Marvelous Machines ………………………………………………………..….. 24 Prairie Ecosystems ………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 25 Rainforests …………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 26 Surviving in Nature ……….……………………………………………………………………………………….. 27 Physical Science Fizz Pop Boom and Beyond, Understanding Chemistry 1 …………………………………………. 28 Fizz Pop Boom and Beyond, Understanding Chemistry 2 …………………………………………. 29 Light Sound Action …………………………………………………………………………………………………. 30 Newton's Laws ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 31 Sports Physics ………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 32 Engineering, Technology and Application of Science Artificial Satellites …………………………………………………………………………………………………… 36 Character Traits of Good Scientists ………………………………………………………………………….. 37 Life on a Research Ship ……………………………………………………………………………………….……. 38 Microscopes: Seeing the Tiny World ………………………………………………………………………… 39 The Scientific Method ………………………………………………………………………………………………. 40 Scientists Who Changed the World ………………………………………………………………………….. 41
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Readorium Scholar Books, Topics, and Vocabulary: Table of Contents: Earth Science
Big Delicious Earth ………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 2 Cave Exploration …………………………………………………………………………………..……………….. 3 Continental Drift ……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 4 Earthquakes and Seismic Waves …………………………………………………………………………….. 5 Formation of Mountains and Deserts ……………………………………………………………………… 6 Learning from Natural Disasters ……………………………………………………………………………… 7 On the Move: Plate Tectonics…………………………………………………………………………………. 8 Pollution…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 9 Sea Floor Spreading ……………………………………………………………………………………….......... 10 Total Lunacy Phases, Eclipses, and Tides on Earth ………………………………………………….. 11 Volcanic Expedition ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 12
Space Science The Earth in Motion …………………………………………………………………………………..…………… 13 Inner and Outer Planets …………………………………………………………………………………..……… 14 Lives of Stars …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 15 Space Rocks ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 16
Life Science Becoming and Staying Healthy ………………………………………………………………………………… 17 Desert Biome …………………………………………………………………………………..……………………… 18 Genetics: Why We Look the Way We Do …………………………………………………………………. 19 The Importance of Coral Reefs ………………………………………………………………………………… 20 Life in the Tundra …………………………………………………………………………………..……………….. 21 Mitosis and Meiosis- The Formation and Growth of Human Life ……………………………… 22 Nature’s Weird Surprises ………………………………………………………………………………………… 23 Our Bodies: The Most Marvelous Machines ………………………………………………………..….. 24 Prairie Ecosystems ………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 25 Rainforests …………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 26 Surviving in Nature ……….……………………………………………………………………………………….. 27
Physical Science Fizz Pop Boom and Beyond, Understanding Chemistry 1…………………………………………. 28 Fizz Pop Boom and Beyond, Understanding Chemistry 2…………………………………………. 29 Light Sound Action …………………………………………………………………………………………………. 30 Newton's Laws……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 31 Sports Physics ………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 32
Engineering, Technology and Application of Science Artificial Satellites …………………………………………………………………………………………………… 36 Character Traits of Good Scientists ………………………………………………………………………….. 37 Life on a Research Ship……………………………………………………………………………………….……. 38 Microscopes: Seeing the Tiny World ………………………………………………………………………… 39 The Scientific Method………………………………………………………………………………………………. 40 Scientists Who Changed the World ………………………………………………………………………….. 41
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Book: Big Delicious Earth by Nina Noah and Dr. Charles Fleischner
Earth Science: Making Sensory Images
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range 520-1150
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: What’s Cookin’: Exploring Inside the Earth with
Food
Direct and indirect observations in science
Study of the vibrations of Earth's rocks
What seismic waves show
Introduction to Earth's magnetic field
composition magnetic field observe seismic waves solar system vibrations
Chapter 2: The Big Bang:
How It All Started
The Big Bang Theory
Creation of supernovas
Gravitational forces
Formation of planets
Creation of Earth's atmosphere
atmosphere Big Bang elements gravity matter supernovas
Chapter 3: The Layers of the Earth: The Crust
The characteristics of the Earth's layers (crust, mantle and core)
Characteristics of different types of rock on Earth (sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic)
Effects of erosion and weathering
erosion igneous rock magma metamorphic rock sediment sedimentary rock weathering
Chapter 4: Breakfast with the Earth: The
Mantle
Characteristics of the Earth's mantle
Close examination of the upper and lower mantle
The Earth's rocky lithosphere and the thick liquid asthenosphere
Movements of Earth's tectonic plates and continental drift
Causes of earthquakes and volcanoes.
asthenosphere collide continental drift lithosphere lower mantle mantle tectonic plates tectonics
Chapter 5: Earth’s a Peach:
The Core
Difficulty studying Earth's core
Examination of what scientists know about the characteristics of the Earth's inner and outer core
How scientists learned about the Earth's core
axis
Chapter 6: The Earth’s
Magnetic Field
How magnets work
How Earth's magnetic field protects the Earth by deflecting particles from the Sun's harmful solar wind
attracted, repelled charged particles compass deflects solar wind
Chapter 7: Studying the Depths of the
Earth
Recap of how scientists study the Earth's layers
Directly and indirect observations
Seismic waves, heat currents, and examining rocks on the Earth’s surface
No new words
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Book: Cave Exploration by Barry Green
Earth Science: Context Clues
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range 430-1160
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: What are Caves?
Human uses of caves
Characteristics of solution caves
How solution caves form
Formation of limestone
How marine animals form calcite (from shells to rocks)
acidic calcite dissolves marine animals solution transformed
Chapter 2: How Caves are
Formed
How changes in Earth's land formation produced limestone caves
How geologists study formations
Formation of caves from cracks in Earth
Explanation of the water table
Becoming a cave detective
depressions geologists joints saturated sinkholes soluble water table
Chapter 3: Fascinating Formations
How are cave formations made
Differences between stalactites and stalagmites
What speleologists do
evaporate speleologists stalactite stalagmites
Chapter 4: Living in Caves (If
You Call that Living)
Organisms that live in caves and their adaptations
Cave zones and their characteristics
How cave creatures adapt to Zones 1,2 and 3
adaptations echo navigation environments fungus
Chapter 5: Using Caves to Study History:
Archaeology and Paleontology
What are archaeology and paleontology
Prehistoric cave animals
Cave men and women
Modern day cave dwellers
archaeology artifacts fossils mummy paleontology
prehistoric
Chapter 6: Cave Diving
Exploring caves with water
Cave diving equipment
Special animals that are adapted to watery cave depths
The hidden wonders of underwater caves
evolution
Chapter 7: How You Can be
a Spelunker
Caving rules for safety
Other things to consider before spelunking
spelunking
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Book: Continental Drift by Bill Isecke
Earth Science: Monitoring for Meaning
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range 420-1160
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: What is
Continental Drift?
Why continents move
Evidence of continent movement
How fast continents move
axis continents continental drift
Chapter 2: The Energy in the
Middle of the Earth
Why the middle of the Earth is hot
The radioactive decay in the Earth's center
atoms elements radioactive decay
Chapter 3: How Heat Moves
The movement of heat through conduction, convection, and radiation
Movement of heat in the Earth through convection
What causes earthquakes
Effects of earthquakes
conduction convection radiation reflex
Chapter 4: How the Heat
from Inside the Earth Gets to the
Surface
How heat from inside the Earth gets to the surface
What volcanoes are and why they erupt
Why continents are like puzzles
core density magma mantle neutrons protons
Chapter 5: Questions and Answers about
Continental Drift
The age of the continents
Why continental drift was a mystery
crust exposed
Chapter 6: How do
Scientists Study Continental
Drift?
How scientists studied continental drift
Evidence of continental drift
climate evidence fossils tropical
Chapter 7: Proving the Theory of
Continental Drift
The study of geology
Proving the theory of continental drift
astronomy geology Pangaea
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Book: Shaking Up Our World: Earthquakes and Seismic Waves by David Isecke
Earth Science: Making Sensory Images
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range 430-1130
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: Why Earthquakes
Happen
Why Earthquakes Happen
Why is there an epicenter
What is an aftershock
Earthquakes usually happen at faults located at plate boundaries
aftershocks crust depressions epicenter erupt faults mantle plates
Chapter 2: What are the
Types of Faults on Earth?
Why earthquakes happen
Why is there an epicenter
What is an aftershock
Earthquakes usually happen at faults located at plate boundaries
fissure normal fault reverse fault strike-slip fault thrust
Chapter 3: Studying
Earthquakes with Seismology
What is a fault on Earth?
How do faults determine where earthquakes happen
Why are there different types of faults
seismologists
Chapter 4: The Richter Scale
Seismographs measure earthquake’s energy
Seismographs can be used to tell where earthquakes happen
amplitude logarithmic tsunamis vibrations
Chapter 5: The Dangers of
Earthquakes
The energy of earthquakes is measured on the Richter scale
The Richter scale is logarithmic because the energy of earthquakes varies so much
landslides liquefaction tremors tsunamis
Chapter 6: P-waves, S-waves, and Surface Waves
The dangers of Earthquakes are caused by many different effects
The effects are determined by where the earthquake happens
core vibrations
Chapter 7: Finding the Epicenter
P-waves, S-waves, and Surface Waves are all caused by earthquakes
The earth vibrations caused by earthquakes are composed of different kinds of waves
epicenter radius
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Book: Formation of Mountains and Deserts by David Isecke
Earth Science: Determining Importance
Readability Range of chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range 520-1210
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: How Mountains Form: Volcanic
Mountains
The different kinds of mountains
How we know that a mountain is volcanic
How volcanic mountains form
dormant erupts extinct volcanic mountains
Chapter 2: The Formation of Fold Mountains
How plate movement forms Fold Mountains
Major fold mountain ranges
Why fold mountains are common
anticline continental plates crust Fold Mountains syncline
Chapter 3 The Formation of Dome Mountains
Why dome mountains are similar to volcanoes
Why new dome mountains can be made of old rock
Dome Mountain erode
Chapter 4 The Formation of
Fault Block Mountains
How fault block mountains are made of broken pieces
Why plates meet in different ways and break into blocks
debris fault lines Fault-Block Mountains gravity
Chapter 5 Erosion and Plateau
Mountains
What happens when high land is eroded around the edges
Reasons for erosion
exposed glaciers ice erosion plateau Plateau Mountains resisted water erosion wind erosion
Chapter 6 How Rain Shadow
Deserts are Formed
Why rain only falls on the side of a mountain that wind hits first
Why rising air gets cold
adapt condenses rain shadows water vapor
Chapter 7: Different Kinds of Deserts and How They are Formed
Definition and characteristics of different types of deserts
Different reasons for low rainfall
monsoon deserts polar cap polar deserts tundra trade wind deserts
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Book: Learning from Natural Disasters by Allen Mogol
Earth Science: Print Features
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range: 390-1130
Chapter Concept/Title Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: What Makes a
Disaster Natural?
Definition of natural disasters
Why earthquakes happen and problems they cause
Causes of tsunamis and damage they cause
Why volcanoes erupt and damage they cause
Causes of hurricanes and floods and damage they cause
earthquakes
fault
floods, hurricane
lava
natural disasters
overflow
submerged
tectonic plates
tsunami
volcanic eruptions
Chapter 2: Mount St.
Helens: A Major and Deadly
Volcanic Eruption
Active volcanoes in the U.S.
Consequences of the eruption of St. Helens (the most disastrous volcanic eruption in U.S. history)
Safety procedures during earthquakes
active volcanoes
avalanches
evacuate
volcanologist
Chapter 3: What has Mount St. Helens Taught
Us?
How predicting volcanoes saves lives
Surprising problems for farmers and dangers to animals from volcanic ash
How nature provided some relief to animals after Mount St. Helens eruption
New technology to predict earthquakes
amphibians
botanists
lupines
seismometer
Chapter 4: Hurricane Katrina: A
Colossal Disaster
Problems caused by the strength of Hurricane Katrina
Why levees failed during Hurricane Katrina
Human consequences of Hurricane Katrina
levee
Chapter 5: Learning from
Hurricane Katrina
Why study hurricanes?
Solving the "lightning mystery" of Hurricane Katrina: vertical winds and static electricity
eyewall
meteorologists
static electricity
vertical winds
Chapter 6: The Japanese
Earthquake and Tsunamis
Damage to Japan caused by earthquake magnitude and aftershocks
How earthquake caused tsunami
Devastation caused by tsunamis to cities
Problems caused by damage to nuclear power plants
magnitude
nuclear power plants
radioactive
Chapter 7: Learning from the Japanese
Earthquake and Tsunamis
How to prepare for earthquakes and tsunamis
Understanding activity at fault zones
Steps scientists are taking to better predict earthquakes and tsunamis
Other concerns about natural disasters
fault zones
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Book: On the Move: Plate Tectonics by Allen Mogol and Nina Noah
Earth Science: Making Sensory Images
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range 530-1200
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: The Theory of
Continental Drift
Introduction to plate tectonics
Early theory that Earth had once been one large continent and that this landmass separated at fault lines
Why the Theory of Continental Drift was difficult to prove at first
climate continents fossils geologists magnetism plate tectonics Theory of Continental Drift tropical
Chapter 2: Plate Tectonics
and the Inside of the Earth
Characteristics and features of the Earth's different layers
How convection is made possible because of continental motion
asthenosphere crust dense geology lithosphere mantle plates
Chapter 3: Convection and
the Movement of the Plates
Convection and the movement of Earth's plates
How continents are situated and what causes their movement
absorbs brittle convection currents core cyclical
Chapter 4: Plate Movement:
Convergent, Divergent, and
Transform
What happens when plates interact
How different kinds of plates behave when they hit each other
How mountains are formed
convergent boundaries divergent boundaries magma subduction zone transform boundaries trenches
Chapter 5: Subduction and
Sea Floor Spreading
How the Earth forms new crust
What new crust does to old crust
What happens during the process of subduction
deep-sea trench mid-ocean ridge Subduction
Chapter 6: Earthquakes,
Tsunamis, Volcanoes, Oh
My
The causes of earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis
Subduction in the Ring of Fire
debris energy Ring of Fire seismic waves tsunami
Chapter 7: Plate Tectonics
in Space
Plate tectonics and other planets in our Solar System
Volcanoes on Mars and Venus
atmosphere volcanic plumes
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Book: Pollution by Allen Mogol and Rachel Nuwer
Engineering, Technology and Application of Science: Inferring
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range: 240-1500
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: Polluting the
Water Needed for Life
Causes of water pollution
Chemicals that pollute water
Problems caused by chemical and sewage dumps
How toxic metals like mercury & copper pollute water
chemicals, pollutants runoff toxic water pollution
Chapter 2: Polluting the Air
We Breathe
How carbon dioxide and methane pollute air
Natural vs. human causes of air pollution
What factories do to pollute air
How cars pollute air
carbon dioxide exhaust emissions landfills, methane particulates, release
Chapter 3: The Problem of Climate Change
Why some people are skeptical of climate change
Difference between climate and weather changes
Problems caused by climate change
Meaning of increases of C02 in Earth's atmosphere
What we can do to prevent climate change
atmosphere climate change
Chapter 4: Acid Rain and
Earth
Causes of acid rain
How acid rain harms the Earth
Chemical reactions caused by acid rain
What can be done about acid rain
acid rain chemical reaction corrode
Chapter 5: Can Rainforests and Coral Reefs
Survive Pollution?
Differences between tropical and temperate rainforests
What we don't know about rainforests
What's happening to the rainforests and why it's important
coral bleaching greenhouse gases rainforest, secrete temperate rainforests tropical rainforests
Chapter 6: How Air and Water
Pollution Affect People, Animals,
and Plants
Problems caused by air and water pollution: human health, human death, and other animal and plant problems
(no new vocabulary)
Chapter 7: How Can We Cut
Down on Pollution?
Ways of cutting down on pollution such as: using solar energy, being energy efficient, traveling "green," reducing waste, and recycling
energy efficient solar power
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Book: Sea Floor Spreading by Eddie Cohen
Earth Science: Making Sensory Images
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range 570-1140
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: This Just In –
Continental Drift!
Evidence of Pangaea (one large Earth land mass)
Why continental drift was a mystery for a long time
Early evidence for continental drift
cartographers evidence geologist Pangaea theory Theory of Continental Drift
Chapter 2: Alfred Wegener: A
Man with an Unbelievable Theory
Alfred Wegener's theory about continental movement
Problems Wegener had in proving his theory
climatology fossils
Chapter 3: Harry Hess: Solving
the Mystery of Continental Drift!
How the mystery of Continental Drift was solved with new technology
Examining the sea floor with sonar
The significance of finding a mountain range found on the ocean floor
deep sea trench magma mid-ocean ridges sonar
Chapter 4: Hess’ Theory of Sea
Floor Spreading: A Closer Look
Evidence of how new sea floor is created
What happens to old sea floor when new sea floor is created
crevices crust subduction zone
Chapter 5: Proving the Theory
of Sea Floor Spreading, Part I
Proving the theory of Sea Floor Spreading
The Earth's magnetic field
Proof that the Earth changes magnetic polarity
How the Earth's magnetic field tells a story
magnetic field normal polarity repel reversed polarity
Chapter 6: Proving the Theory
of Sea Floor Spreading, Part II
What patterns of magnetic stripes on the ocean floor show
Why the Atlantic Ocean is getting bigger
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Chapter 7: Catch My Drift? Sea Floor Spreading and
Continental Drift
The relationship between Seat Floor Spreading and Continental Drift
How the theory of plate tectonics explained the way Pangaea became our current continents
Theory of Plate Tectonics
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Book: Total Lunacy Phases, Eclipses, and Tides on Earth by Allen Mogol
Earth Science: Determining Importance
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range 620-1230
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: How the Moon
Moves (and Why it is Important to
Know)
How and why the moon and the Earth orbit the sun in our solar system
How and why the moon also orbits the Earth
Introduction to phases of the moons and its relationship to tides and eclipses
axes eclipses Phases of the Moon revolve rotate solar system tides
Chapter 2: The Phases of the
Moon
Why the phases of the moon change ways that the moon looks from Earth
Why there is a difference in brightness between the moon at different phases
(no new vocabulary)
Chapter 3: What is an
Eclipse?
Why eclipses happen when the moon or the Earth move into the shadow of each other
The differences between total and partial eclipses of both the sun and the moon
Why it usually takes at least one month after an eclipse before we can see another one
eclipses lunar eclipse partial eclipse solar eclipse total eclipse
Chapter 4: Solar Eclipses
When and why solar eclipses happen
When and why we can see the corona during a total solar eclipse
Why solar eclipses only happen for a small part of Earth
corona penumbra umbra
Chapter 5: Lunar Eclipses
When and why lunar eclipses happen
What happens when the Earth completely blocks the sun’s light from the moon
Where lunar eclipses can be seen on Earth and why
(no new vocabulary)
Chapter 6: What Causes
Tides?
How tides are caused by the effect of the moon’s and the sun’s gravity on the Earth’s oceans.
Why the moon has more effect on tides than the sun does.
force gravity tides
Chapter 7: How Does the Sun Affect Tides?
How and why the sun affects tides much less than the moon
How the sun can add or subtract from the moon's effect on tides
neap tides spring tides
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Book: Volcanic Expedition by Fran Zakutansky
Earth Science: Using Print Features
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range 340-1170
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: The Formation of
Volcanoes
The connection between tectonic plates and volcanic eruptions
How, when, and why underground magma erupts and forms volcanoes
bases of volcanoes crater crust erupts lava magma molten tectonic plates
Chapter 2: Hawaiian
Volcanoes and Lava Tubes
What lava tubes are and how they form
What lava tubes do
Kilauea lava tubes Mauna Loa
Chapter 3: Enter at Your
Own Risk! Area of High Volcanic
Activity
How and why volcanic bombs can hurt people
What types of formations erupting lava creates
How and why some mountains enlarge over time
Active, dormant & extinct volcanoes Arenal converge crater diverge vent
Chapter 4: All Lava is Not
the Same
Comparing and contrasting different types of lava
What happens to different types of lava when they cool
A’a pahoehoe slope
Chapter 5: Would You Live Near this Active
Volcano?
Why active volcanoes are dangerous
What volcanic bombs are and what they can do
The speed of lava flow
cinders high viscosity pyroclastic flow volcanic ash volcanic bombs
Chapter 6: Hot Springs
Make for Great Swimming!
How some volcanoes cause hot water springs to develop
Differences in volcanic springs based on elevation
Why volcanic spring water is not poisonous
acidic base dissolve elevation hot springs natural geothermal heating neutral pH
Chapter 7: What Happens When
Volcanoes Collapse
Why some volcanoes collapse
What can happen to collapsed volcanoes
caldera magma chamber predators prey
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Book: The Earth in Motion by Allen Mogol
Space Science: Making Sensory Images
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range: 420-1230
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: What is
Revolution?
Early ideas about Sun revolving around Earth
Heliocentric view: Earth and other planets revolve around the Sun
Difference between revolution & rotation
Shape of Earth's orbit
ellipse orbiting revolving rotates solar system
Chapter 2: The Earth’s
Rotation and Revolution: Up
Close and Personal
More detail about Earth's rotation and revolution
How Earth spins around its axis
How the Earth revolves around the sun
(no new vocabulary)
Chapter 3: The Invention of
Calendars
Use of calendars
How Egyptians created the first calendar based on the movement of the moon
How the Romans improved calendars (leap year)
(no new vocabulary)
Chapter 4: Why Does The
Earth Have Seasons?
Hypotheses about why we have seasons
Why distance from the Sun doesn't determine seasons
How the tilt of the Earth as it rotates on its axis determines seasons
hypothesis
Chapter 5: What Happens During the June and December
Solstices?
Definition of solstice
When the solstice takes place in the Northern and Southern hemisphere
How the seasons are determined by the angle that sunrays hit Earth
hemisphere solstice
Chapter 6: What Happens
During the March and September
Equinoxes?
Definition of equinoxes
Equinoxes during Earth's orbit around the sun
Reversal of vernal and autumnal equinoxes in the Northern and Southern hemisphere
equinoxes
Chapter 7: Changes in
Seasons Where You Live
How the seasons affect your life
Features of autumn, winter, summer, and spring
(no new vocabulary)
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Book: Inner and Outer Planets by Nancy Finton
Space Science: Making Connections
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range: 420-1160
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: Rocky Planets and
Gas Giants
Similarities among the outer gaseous planets
Similarities among the inner rocky planets
How the Sun's gravity holds planets in their orbits
Rotation and orbits of planets in our solar system
axis gas giants gravity orbits rotates solar system terrestrial planets
Chapter 2: Inner Planets: Mercury and
Venus
Close examination of inner planets, Mercury and Venus
Differences between gravity, atmosphere, terrain, and length of days/ years on Mercury, Venus and Earth
atmosphere greenhouse effect
Chapter 3: The Earth
A view beneath the Earth's surface
How Earth sustains life
Comparing the Earth and other terrestrial planets
crater saltwater
Chapter 4: Our Neighboring
Planet: Mars
Why Mars is the easiest planet to study
How we study Mars
Winds, atmospheric pressure, length of days and years, and terrain on Mars
atmospheric carbon dioxide Olympus Mons pressure
Chapter 5: Outer Planets:
Jupiter and Saturn
Differences between Jupiter, Saturn & terrestrial planets
Features of Jupiter and Saturn: gaseous makeup, length of days and years, atmospheric conditions, moons
dense
Chapter 6: Uranus and
Neptune
Why Uranus and Neptune are called "ice giants"
Features of Uranus and Neptune: seasons, orbits, weather, length of days and years
methane
Chapter 7: Solar System
Wrap Up
Dwarf planets: the demotion of Pluto
Differences between asteroids and comets
Recap of our solar system
Distances of planets from the Sun
asteroid belt asteroids comets dwarf planets
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Book: Lives of Stars by Allen Mogol, Joseph Bennington-Castro, and Emily Karp
Space Science: Monitoring for Meaning
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range: 260-1470
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: Introduction: Man and
the Stars
Observing stars with the naked eye
How stars (including our Sun) generate light
What astronomers do
New technology for studying space
artificial satellites astronomers reflects
Chapter 2: The Life of a Star
The Life of a Star: from nebula to protostar
Star mass and nuclear fusion
The formation of main sequence stars
The formation of brown dwarfs
Changes from main sequence to red giants
atoms, elements gravity main sequence star nebula nuclear fusion protostar red giant
Chapter 3: The Death of a Star
Characteristics of red giants (old age stars)
Changes from red giants to white dwarfs
Changes from white dwarfs to black dwarfs
Other star deaths (neutron stars and pulsars)
Black holes and supernovas
black dwarf black hole electrons, protons neutron star, neutrons planetary nebula pulsars supernova white dwarf star
Chapter 4: Ten Things You
Probably Didn’t Know About Our Sun
What is an astronomical unit
Time it takes the Sun's light to reach Earth
Sun's makeup, width, and mass
How the Sun is heating up, Sun's fusion of hydrogen, and Sun's gravity
astronomical unit
Chapter 5: How Many Stars Are
There?
Why scientists changed their minds about number of stars in the universe
Types of galaxies
Problems in seeing stars caused by light pollution
Constellations
constellations elliptical galaxies galaxy, irregular galaxies light pollution red dwarf stars spiral galaxy
Chapter 6: The Big Bang Theory
Difference between a hypothesis and a theory
How the Big Bang Theory explains the beginning of the universe
What the early universe was probably like
How the universe as we know it evolved
Big Bang Theory hypothesis theory
Chapter 7: Will Man Ever Travel to
the Stars?
Is travel to stars possible?
Location of nearest stars
Einstein's theory about high speed traveling
asteroid Theory of Relativity
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Book: Space Rocks by Fred Corwin
Space Science: Context Clues
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range: 450-1160
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: What's Up in
Space?
How space objects are held together by gravity
How gravity keeps Earth revolving around the Sun
The Big Bang Theory
Asteroids and meteoroids in space
What happens when space objects hit Earth
asteroids astronomers atmosphere Big Bang crater debris gravity meteoroids, meteors micrometeoroids revolving
Chapter 2: Asteroids and Meteoroids
How space rocks were formed
Comparing asteroids
Measuring distances in space
The asteroid belt
asteroid belt astronomical unit (AU) C-type gravity
Chapter 3: Studying Space
Artificial satellites
Communication between man-made satellites and Earth
Space probes, capsules, and telescopes
artificial satellites capsule space probes telescopes
Chapter 4: The Real Space
Invaders: Comets
Features of comets
Orbits of comets and changes in their temperature
Understanding meteor showers
comets evaporates Halley’s Comet Kuiper Belt meteor showers
Chapter 5: Tracking Space
Rocks
Tracking the orbits of space rocks
Preventing collisions of space rocks with ISS
How astronomers track comet movements
artificial astronomers satellites
Chapter 6: How to Protect our Planet from Space Invaders
How astronomers track rebel asteroids
Protecting Earth from asteroids hitting: tracking threats of space objects
Deflecting asteroids that might hit Earth in the future
asteroid belt atmosphere deflect evacuate rebel asteroids
Chapter 7: The Need for Space Study
What's in our solar system
How can we protect ourselves from potential damage
Technology to study space
solar system Space Program Space Shuttle Space Station
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Book: Becoming and Staying Healthy by Lenny Presberg
Life Science: Making Connections
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range 400-1260
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: Want to be
Healthy?
Overview of why humans need nutrients, exercise, and rest for optimal health
What we can do to better health
germs nutrients vaccinations
Chapter 2: Eating Foods that
Make you Healthy: The Ideal Plate
Why humans need a variety of foods
Foods that taste good vs. foods that are healthy
milled refined grains
Chapter 3: What’s in My
Food? Learning from the
Nutrition Label
What can be learned from nutrition labels on food
What can be learned from serving size information
How to be careful to avoid harmful ingredients
calories carbohydrates cholesterol protein saturated fats sodium trans fats unsaturated fat
Chapter 4: Yummy Vitamins
and Minerals
What vitamins and minerals are needed and how they can be obtained
How to choose the varieties of food that will give you a balanced diet
infection minerals
Chapter 5: Gaining Strength through Exercise
The benefits of different types of aerobic and anaerobic exercise
What kinds of exercise give you “happy” endorphin chemicals
aerobic anaerobic endorphins
Chapter 6: Ah…. Sleep
How much sleep humans need and why
What happens if we don’t get the right amount of sleep
How your age affects how much sleep you need
(no new vocabulary)
Chapter 7: Staying Healthy
What can make you sick
How to avoid catching sicknesses from other people
Why we need certain kinds of bacteria
How vaccines protect us from viruses
bacteria fungi immune microbes protozoa viruses
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Book: Desert Biome by Allen Mogol
Life Science: Determining Importance
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range 440-1200
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: What Makes a
Desert a Desert?
Why there are many kinds of deserts
How weather conditions vary in different deserts
Why many deserts have temperatures with hot days and cold nights
adaptations arid chemical weathering environment evaporates flash flood precipitation
Chapter 2: The North
American Deserts
The types of deserts found in North America
Why the Chihuahuan deserts has varied habitats
habitats monsoons plateau rain shadow desert
Chapter 3: Cold Deserts
What the special conditions in polar deserts are climate polar deserts
Chapter 4: Desert Formations
and Landscapes
How water and wind shape different desert formations such as buttes, arroyos, buttes, dunes, and canyons
arroyos, buttes canyons, crescents dunes, erode, mesas
Chapter 5: Survival in the Hot
Desert: Adaptations Make
it Happen
How desert biomes are controlled by water availability
How and why adaptations are essential for desert life
The special physical adaptations of jackrabbits that help them survive in deserts
adaptations behavioral instincts mutates physical adaptation
Chapter 6: The Amazing
Adaptations of Desert Animals
The special adaptations of nocturnal animals
Some special adaptations of desert animals that keep them cool
How some organisms survive without drinking water
absorb nocturnal reflect
Chapter 7: The Amazing
Adaptations of Desert Plants
Special adaptations of desert plants that help them obtain and store water
Unusual plant that looks dead but can spring to life and quickly use water when available
photosynthesis
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Book: Genetics: Why We Look the Way We Do by Joel Schmid and Nina Noah
Life Science: Using Graphic Features
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range 600-1280
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: The Science of
Heredity
Commonalities and differences among people
Which features are controlled by heredity
Distinction between genotype and phenotype
genes, genetics genotype heredity, offspring organism phenotype species, traits
Chapter 2: The Research of
Gregor Mendel
Genetic theories before Gregor Mendel
Why Mendel chose peas for his genetic experiments
How pea traits are expressed
cross-pollinated model organism self-pollinate
Chapter 3: The Science of
Heredity
How Mendel conducted his experiments
What Mendel observed in offspring generations
Why Mendel's observations were surprising
purebred
Chapter 4: Mendel’s Theory
Explanation of Mendel’s theory
How individuals get genes from both parents
allele gametes meiosis
Chapter 5: Mendel’s Laws of
Heredity
Differences between how dominant and recessive traits are expressed in offspring
What happens when two purebred plants (one with only the dominant allele and the other with only the recessive allele for the same trait) are cross-pollinated
What happens when their offspring are cross-pollinated
dominant recessive
Chapter 6: Figuring Out Patterns of
Inheritance with Punnett Squares
Predicting genotypes of offspring from the parents phenotypes
Reading Punnett Squares
What happens when offspring receive both dominant and recessive alleles from parents
probability Punnett Square
Chapter 7: DNA: The
Instructions for Life
What DNA looks like, what it is, and what it does
Explanation of our genetic code
Why genetics is Important
chromosomes DNA, double helix genetic code molecules nucleotides proteins
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Book: The Importance of Coral Reefs by Eddie Cohen
Life Science: Using Print Features
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range: 480-1100
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: The Importance of
Coral Reefs
The location and features of coral reefs
The biodiversity on coral reefs
The uses of coral reefs
biodiversity
coral reefs
nurseries
Chapter 2: Animals of the
Coral Reef:
Where are Nemo
and his Friends?
Symbiotic relationships between coral reef animals: stinging anemones and clownfish
Animals that produce the coral reef structure: coral polyps
debris
predators, prey
stinging anemones
symbiotic relationship
tentacles
toxic
Chapter 3:
What’s in the
Water?
Why cold water is cloudy and warm water is clear
Different types of phytoplankton and what they do
How coral polyps survive
How algae get their color
What help corals polyps receive
absorb
nutrients
phytoplankton
plankton
reflected
spectrum
zooplankton
Chapter 4:
Sea Grass and the
Coral Reef
Properties and adaptations of sea grass
Where sea grass grows
Sea grass and photosynthesis
Use of sea grass to ecosystems in the coral reef
adapted
ecologist
photosynthesis
sediment
Chapter 5:
What Can Harm
the Coral Reefs?
The relationship between acid levels in the coral reef and the health of the reef
Why the oceans are becoming more acidic
The world's changing climate
calcite
climate change
fossil fuels
global warming
greenhouse gases
pH
Chapter 6:
How Sediment in
the Water Affects
Corals
The watershed system
Sediment in the ocean and what it does to coral reefs
Problems caused by coral bleaching
coral bleaching
sediment
turbid
watershed
Chapter 7: How
Do You Prevent
Overfishing?
Problems caused by overfishing
How fish help the reef by eating algae
How the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program protects, conserves, and restores coral reef resources
reproduce
supply and demand
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Book: Life in the Tundra by Suzy Gazlay
Life Science: Context Clues
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range: 430-1300
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: The Arctic
Tundra: A Harsh
Place to Live
Weather conditions in the arctic and alpine tundra
Why trees cannot grow in tundra
Why tundra seems barren in winter
How and why tundra biomes exist in summer
alpine tundra
altitudes
arctic tundra
biomes
migrate
permafrost
precipitation
thaws
Chapter 2: An
Unusual Climate
Temperature ranges in tundra
How the tilt of the Earth and the Earth's orbit affects tundra climate
orbits
Chapter 3:
Can People Live
in the Arctic
Tundra?
The size of the arctic tundra
Differences between the taiga and tundra
Traditional ways people who live in the arctic tundra survive
(no new
vocabulary)
Chapter 4:
Plant Life: Not
Much Room for
Roots
The diversity of tundra plant life
How plants adapt to tundra life (lichens, algae, and fungi)
adapted
algae
diversity
fungi
lichens
Chapter 5:
Animals of the
Arctic Tundra
How animals adapt to harsh tundra conditions
Why the tundra is an ideal habitat for mosquitoes
Adaptations of reptiles, amphibians, and birds of the tundra
hibernate
Chapter 6:
Year-Round
Residents
Physical and behavioral adaptations of the polar bear and musk ox to tundra life
Physical and behavioral adaptations of aortic wolves and foxes
Small tundra animals
camouflage
carnivore
desolate
herbivores
predators
prey
Chapter 7:
Summer Visitors
How and why certain animals migrate to the arctic tundra in summer
Adaptations of animals to summer tundra conditions
instinct
molt
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Strand: Mitosis and Meiosis- The Formation and Growth of Human Life by Nancy Finton
Life Science: Using Graphic Features
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range: 440-1270
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: Why Cells
Divide
What DNA does
Introduction to how cells divide (mitosis)
Function of chromosomes
Introduction to how sex cells divide (meiosis)
chromosomes
daughter cells
DNA
eukaryotic
gametes
genes
meiosis
mitosis
parent cell
Chapter 2: Cells- Preparing
to Divide
Introduction to the cell cycle
Description of what interphase is and what takes place during interphase
Cell structures and functions
Continued explanation of how cells divide (mitosis)
What happens during cytokinesis
cell cycle
cytokinesis
interphase
organelles
protein synthesis
ribosome
Chapter 3:
Getting the DNA
Right
Why copying the DNA exactly is crucial to life
How humans get 46 chromosomes (sets of 23 from each parent)
Explanation of dominant traits
chromatin
dominant trait
Chapter 4:
Mitosis and
Meiosis
The similarities between mitosis and meiosis
The differences between mitosis and meiosis
diploid
haploid
Chapter 5:
Stages of Mitosis
The specifics of what happens during the stages of mitosis (prophase, prometaphase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase, cytokinesis)
metaphase plate
nuclear membrane
Chapter 6:
Phases of
Meiosis: The
Creation of Sex
Cells
The specifics of what happens during the stages of meiosis (anaphase, metaphase, prophase, and telophase)
anaphase
metaphase
prophase
telophase
Chapter 7:
What do Mitosis
and Meiosis
Have to Do With
Us?
The varying rates of mitosis in the human body
What mitosis has to do with human growth and development
What meiosis has to do with human, animal, and plant reproduction
(no new vocabulary)
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Book: Nature’s Weird Surprises by David Isecke
Life Science: Inferring
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range: 570-1120
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: What is the Most Successful Animal
on Earth?
What makes an animal "successful"
How animals become endangered
Characteristics of the most common species (nematodes)
biomass endangered, extinct generation habitat nematode, species
Chapter 2: Boxing with
Chimps
Characteristics of two of the world's strongest animals (chimps and rhinoceros beetles)
What makes muscles strong
rhinoceros beetle
Chapter 3: Poisons of Nature
Why some animals are venomous
Characteristics of some of the world most venomous animals: box jellyfish, the golden poison dart frog, and the Komodo dragon
box jellyfish clotting golden poison dart frog, Komodo dragon venomous
Chapter 4: Are Germs Bad?
The makeup of viruses and debate over whether they are live organisms
Characteristics and adaptations of viruses
How viruses hurt cells they infect
Helpful and harmful characteristics of bacteria
How the immune system fights harmful bacteria and viruses
Why some germs are important for human health
AIDS, HIV DNA genes, genetic immune system plasmids pro-biotic protein RNA, T-cells viruses
Chapter 5: Big Brains!
Debate on what constitutes "intelligence"
Brain size vs. intelligence
How neurons carry information
cerebral cortex neurons sperm whale theory
Chapter 6: An Alien World Under the Sea
Special adaptations of undersea animals: tubeworms, colossal squid, and angler fish
invertebrates tubeworms
Chapter 7: Spider Silk and Gecko
Toes
Amazing technology of some animal species
How spiders weave silk
Why geckos' toes are amazing adhesives
adhesives elasticity setae, spatulae
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Book: Our Bodies: The Most Marvelous Machines by Helen Presberg
Life Science: Making Connections
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range: 500-1220
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: A Marvelous
Machine
Comparing and contrasting the human body to a machine
An overview of human body systems: digestive, respirator,
circulatory, and excretory
Other systems that help our bodies function:
musculoskeletal, endocrine, immune, and sensory
No new vocabulary
Chapter 2: Your Circulatory
System-The Body
Transports What it
Needs
The parts of the circulatory system, heart, and blood
vessels
How the circulatory system works
The components and many jobs of blood
platelets
Chapter 3:
Burning Food: The
Respiratory
System
What the respiratory system does and how it works
A look inside the lungs
Protecting and operating the lungs
How food is burned for energy
cellular respiration
diaphragm
involuntary
Chapter 4:
Dealing with
Food- Down the
Digestion Canal
Parts of the digestive system
How the digestive system works
What happens to food in the mouth, esophagus, stomach,
small and large intestines
absorption
defecation
large intestine
taste buds
Chapter 5:
Getting Rid of
Waste: The
Excretory System
Why and how we sweat
Structures in the excretory system and how they work
No new vocabulary
Chapter 6:
Body
Communication:
The Nervous
System and the
Endocrine
Parts and function of the different parts of the central,
peripheral, and autonomic nervous system
Parts of the brain and how the brain operates
How the nervous system controls reflexes
How the endocrine system operates
autonomic nervous
system
central nervous system
cerebellum, cerebrum
electric impulses
glands
medulla
neurons
peripheral nervous
system
pituitary gland
reflex
spinal cord
synapse
Chapter 7: Standing and
Moving: the
Musculoskeletal
System)
Parts of the musculoskeletal system and how it works
Understanding the importance of cartilage, joints, and
ligaments as well as the different types of muscles in our
bodies
cartilage
joints
ligaments
skeletal muscles
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Book: Prairie Ecosystems by Suzy Gazlay
Life Science: Print Features
Next Generation Science Standards: MS-LS2-1, MS-LS2-3, MS-LS2-4, MS-LS4-1, MS-ESS3-4 Common Core English Language Arts Standards: CCSS.ELA.RI.6-8.4, CCSS.ELA.RST.6-8.4
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range: 500-1270
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: As Far as the Eye
Can See
Characteristics of the prairie
Introduction to a variety of prairie animals
How prairies ecosystems in the U.S. changed over time and why
conservation ecosystem endangered fertile
Chapter 2: Shaping the Prairie
How climate shaped the prairie
Adaptations of tall and short prairie grasses
Animals that shape the prairie
How the prairie was shaped by wildfire
climate drought
Chapter 3: Indestructible
Plants
Challenges to plants on the prairie
Plants that adapt to prairie conditions
Different root systems of prairie plants
adapted decompose dense rhizomes sod
Chapter 4: A Forest of Grass
Characteristics of prairie grasses and flowers
Characteristics of prairie, lichens, forbs, moss, and algae
Adaptations of the cottonwood tree
algae forbs lichens moss
Chapter 5: Animals: Keeping a
Healthy Balance
Prairie animals of the 1800s and how they adapted to prairie life
Animals of the ecosystem: carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores
Life and behavioral adaptations of prairie dogs
burrow carnivores herbivores omnivores predators prey rodents
Chapter 6: The Tragedy of the
Bison
Life and adaptations of the prairie bison
What happened to the prairie bison
The bison of today
conservation herds crossbred extinction purebred
Chapter 7: From Prairie to
Farmland
The first human settlers of the prairie
New ways of using sod
Changes from prairie to farmland and challenges of farmers
blacksmith
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Book: Rainforests by Anna Mazzaro
Life Science: Inferring
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range: 570-1120
Chapter Concepts Content
Vocabulary
Chapter 1: Why Save
Rainforests?
Where rainforests are located and rainforest climate
The importance of saving rainforests for life on Earth
Organisms of the rainforest
Layers of the rainforest
Rainforest research: Panama Research team
climates
dense
equator
species
tropical
Chapter 2: How is
Deforestation
Destroying the
Rainforests
Why rainforests are disappearing quickly
Problems associated with deforestation
The destruction of rainforest ecosystems
deforestation
ecosystems
Chapter 3: Why Do People
Destroy
Rainforests?
The reasons people destroy rainforests
Rainforest destruction caused by logging, new settlers,
road building, farming, and hunting
felled
fertile
loggers
nutrients
Chapter 4: More Reasons
People Destroy
Rainforests
Additional reasons people destroy rainforests: gold
mining and cattle ranching
cattle ranching
mining
ores
toxic
toxic waste
Chapter 5: The Devastation of
Deforestation
What happens in rainforests due deforestation; water-
runoff, flooding, drought, and erosion
The problems of adding greenhouse gases to the air when
forests are burned
Understanding global warming and problems caused by it
atmosphere
drought
erodes
exposed
global warming
greenhouse gases
indigenous
native
water runoff
Chapter 6: Recap: Why Do We
Need to Protect
Rainforests
Recap of why humans need to protect dwindling
rainforests
Production of oxygen in the rainforest
Medicines from rainforest plants
absorb
extinct
humidity
pollinate
temperate zones
Chapter 7: Recap: What Can
We Do to Save Our
Rainforests
Specific ways we can protect the rainforests via
awareness, raising money for the rainforest, not
purchasing souvenirs made from endangered animals,
and recycling
recycle
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Book: Surviving in Nature by Fran Zakutansky
Life Science: Using Graphic Features
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range: 500-1170
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: Darwin's Finches
How and why animals adapt to their environment
The significance of Charles Darwin's observations of finches in the Galapagos
The theory of evolution, natural selection, and variations among the same species
adapt equator evolved genes habitats Theory of Evolution traits variations
Chapter 2: Fooling Your
Enemies
Purposes and types of camouflage
Use of warning coloration
Use of mimicry for protection
camouflage mimicry warning coloration
Chapter 3: What's for Dinner and How Will I Eat
It?
Animals' physical adaptations to available food sources: spoonbills, red ibis, pelicans, hummingbirds, toucans, aracari, scarlet macaw, flamingo
marshes nectar talons
Chapter 4: Adaptation -
Change That Is Best for Your Environment
Special adaptations of different animals: birds with wings for swimming, and body temperature changes
Plant adaptations: absorbing sunlight through spiral shaped leaves and huge leaves
ectothermic Humboldt Currents modified organisms photosynthesis
Chapter 5: Living Together and Loving It!
The benefits of mutualism: clownfish and anemone, acacia plants and ants
immune mutualism sessile symbiotic tentacles
Chapter 6: Not the Perfect Living Situation: You Help Me, I
Leave You Alone
Benefit to one organism of commensalism: egrets and cattle, heron and hippo, wildebeests and zebras, monkeys and dung beetles
commensalism
Chapter 7: Social Insects -
Living and Working Together
Benefits of division of labor among social insects: worker ants, leaf cutter ants
Social insects that show mutualism
benefit debris diversity division of labor protozoa
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Book: Fizz, Pop, Boom, and Beyond: Understanding Chemistry 1 by Suzy Gazlay
Physical Science: Context Clues
Readability Range: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range: 340-1090
Chapter Concepts Content
Vocabulary
Chapter 1: What is Matter?
Where matter and energy can be found
Types of matter
Properties of different forms of matter
Characteristics of forms of matter not typically found on Earth
BEC
energy
gas
liquid
matter
plasma
solid
volume
Chapter 2:
What are Elements
and Molecules?
What forms of matter are normally found on Earth
Why there are so many different combinations of atoms
atoms
bonded
compound
molecule
Chapter 3:
The Properties of
Matter
The many different properties combinations of matter have
Very special properties of water
adhesion
capillary action
cohesion
properties
surface tension
Chapter 4:
More Physical
Properties:
Freezing, Melting,
and Boiling Points
How most forms of matter change with temperature
Temperature changes that cause major changes in properties of matter
Reversible physical changes that can be caused by temperature change
boiling point
condenses
evaporates
freezing point
solid
water vapor
Chapter 5:
Physical and
Chemical Changes
Explanation of physical and chemical properties
Physical vs. chemical changes
chemical change
chemical properties
physical change
physical properties
Chapter 6:
Mixtures
Definition and properties of mixtures
Properties of mixtures that look like just one substance but are not
components
heterogeneous
mixture
homogeneous
mixtures
mixture
particles
Chapter 7:
Solutions –
Another Type of
Mixture
Mixtures or solutions in liquids, gasses, or even solids can still be separated
How properties of components of solutions differ from the solution
dissolved
saturated
solute
solution
solvent
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Book: Fizz, Pop, Boom, and Beyond: Understanding Chemistry 2 by Suzy Gazlay
Physical Science: Determining Importance
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range: 480-1080
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: Atomic Structure
What matter is made of
The structure of atoms
Description and function of electrons, protons, and neutrons
atomic number
atomic weight
atoms
electrons
elements
neutrons
particles
protons
Chapter 2:
The Periodic Table
Properties of different kinds of atoms
How the periodic table is organized
How letter symbols of atoms help us define what elements are in compounds
Periodic Table
periods
Chapter 3:
Compounds and
Formulas
Writing formulas for compounds that tell us how many of each kind of atom are in the molecule of that compound
Molecules that are made of one kind of atom
compound
formula
glucose
molecule
symbols
Chapter 4:
Identifying
Compounds
How chemical formulas identify the type and number of atoms in each molecule of a compound
Compounds that look alike but are actually very different
Why are flame tests used to identify elements
chemical properties
density
helium
pumice
scoria
sodium compounds
Chapter 5:
Chemical
Reactions: How
They Happen
How chemical reactions change things into new products
The irreversibility of chemical changes
chemical reaction
product
reactant
yield
Chapter 6:
Signs of a
Chemical Change
Clues to chemical changes including: changes in color or state, or the creation of a precipitate
bonds
dissolve
precipitate
released
Chapter 7:
Chemical
Reactions of Life
How plants use carbon dioxide and water to create sugar using the energy of the sun
The important chemical reaction of photosynthesis
How animals reverse photosynthesis and gain energy through respiration
chemical changes
photosynthesis
reactants
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Book: Light Sound Action by Beth Stewart
Physical Science: Monitoring for Meaning
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (½ year increments) Lexile Range: 350-1240
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: Energy, Energy
Everywhere
How activity all around us depends on energy
Energy comes from fossil fuels that were formed
millions of years ago
How the sun produces all energy that Earth needs
energy
matter
recycled
Chapter 2:
Stop and Go
Energy!
Why we rely on electrical energy
How electrical energy is carried by moving charges,
usually electrons
kinetic energy
potential energy
Chapter 3:
Electrical
Energy – A
Shocking Story
What lightning is and how it’s produced in
thunderstorms
How sound travels
atoms
charged
electrons, neutrons, protons
static electricity
Chapter 4:
Electrical
Energy –
Keeping Current
How electrical energy is produced in power plants and
carried to your house on wires
How electrical energy's converted to power appliances
How electrical energy circuits move energy
circuit
electric currents
generator
power grid. power plant
Chapter 5:
Thermal Energy
How fires produces heat that can be felt
Understanding how thermal energy works
molecules
thermal energy
vibrate
Chapter 6:
Light Energy
How some organisms produce their own light
How we see objects because of reflected light
How light energy travels through empty space
absorbed
bioluminescence
electromagnetic spectrum
opaque
reflected, refraction
translucent, transparent
Chapter 7:
From Prairie to
Farmland
How sound energy travel through the air
How vibrating objects produce sound energy in air
How loudness or energy in sound waves is measured
Why loud sounds can damage hearing
compress
decibel
frequency
harmony, melody, pitch
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Book: Newton's Laws by David Isecke
Physical Science: Monitoring for Meaning
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range: 470-1200
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: Newton's First Law
Newton's Law of Inertia
How friction affects motion
How friction produces a force that stops motion
Why objects in space move without friction
astronomy force friction navigation observations predicting
Chapter 2: Force and Mass:
An Introduction to Newton's Second
Law
Why you need more force to move a large mass
Why heavy objects need more force to change their motion
mass
Chapter 3: More About
Newton’s Second Law: Acceleration
What is acceleration
Why massive objects need more force to accelerate
acceleration
Chapter 4: Newton’s Second Law: An Excellent
Equation
An equation that shows much force is necessary to accelerate a mass
How we can calculate the relationship between mass, force, and acceleration
(no new vocabulary)
Chapter 5: Vectors
Why force and mass is not enough to describe motion
How we can use a vector to show both a force and a direction
vector velocity
Chapter 6: Using Vectors
How we can describe a trip from one place to another
Using vectors to describe both distance and direction
(no new vocabulary)
Chapter 7: Newton’s Third
Law
How Newton’s Third Law explains force and reaction
Why it is important to understand Newton’s Third Law when you swim
How Newton’s Third Law makes rockets work
expelled propel reaction
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Book: Sports Physics by Beth Stewart
Physical Science: Using Graphic Features
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (½ year increments) Lexile Range: 530-1240
Chapter Concepts Content
Vocabulary
Chapter 1: Science and
Sports – a Perfect
Match!
Why every sport involves physics
Why equipment manufacturers need to design special
equipment for sports
artificial turf
engineers
physics
retractable
Chapter 2:
Aerodynamics Why aerodynamics is important for a lot of sports equipment
How aerodynamic drag affects equipment design in sports
How the design of Frisbees is related to the wings of airplanes
aerodynamic
drag. lift, & thrust
friction
laminar
sphere
turbulent
Chapter 3:
Basketball and
Laws of Motion
Basketball and Newton’s laws
Why sports players are affected by Newton’s laws
Why the deformation of balls conserves energy
acceleration
deforms
kinetic energy
Laws of Motion
Chapter 4:
Science of
Hockey
How physics influences the sport of ice hockey
Why ice must be cleaned and restored to a smooth surface
Zamboni
Chapter 5:
Science of the
Luge
How the Luge is controlled by science
The design of the sled and how it is steered
Why the sleds have no brakes
air resistance
fiberglass
luge
Chapter 6:
Science of
Extreme
Skateboarding
How skateboards have improve since they were first used
Why extreme skateboarding requires special skateboard
designs
How physics helps skateboarders to do seemingly impossible
tricks
How skateboarders avoid getting hurt
gravity
pivot
Chapter 7:
Science of
Cycling
How the science of cycling has advanced with modern bicycles
Why modern bicycles have many gears
Why aerodynamic design is important for racing bikes
penny-farthing
rotate
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Book: Artificial Satellites by Allen Mogol
Engineering, Technology and Application of Science: Using Context Clues
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (½ year increments) Lexile Range: 300-1130
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Artificial Satellites
What satellites are and what they do
Type of satellite orbits: geocentric, geostationary, and heliocentric
Why different satellites orbit at different altitudes
altitude artificial satellites axis geocentric orbit geostationary orbits heliocentric orbit orbits rotates satellite
Chapter 2: The History of
Artificial Satellites
The origins and goals of the Space Race
Space exploration by the USSR and the US
Space exploration by other countries
Space Race Sputnik
Chapter 3: How Satellites Make Our Lives
Better
The purposes of artificial satellites
How satellites are used for communication
How satellites are used for weather prediction
How satellites are used to study space
How satellites are used for navigation, & observing Earth
amplify frequency geotagging meteorologists transponders
Chapter 4: International Space Station
History of the International Space Station
Research on the International Space Station
Facts about the International Space Station from NASA
cells
ISS
Chapter 5: Weather Satellites
Predicting weather without satellites
Use of geostationary satellites in weather prediction
Use of polar satellites in weather prediction
Possible future satellites
polar orbit
Chapter 6: Spy Satellites
How governments spy with satellites
How spy satellites were used in the Cold War
capsules reconnaissance satellites
Chapter 7: Missions to Mars
Satellites that orbit the sun, Venus, Saturn and Mars
Discoveries about Mars with the Mars Express satellite
Other satellites make other discoveries
(no new vocabulary)
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Book Character Traits of Good Scientists by Allen Mogol
Engineering, Technology and Application of Science: Making Connections
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range: 420-1100
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: Becoming a Good
Scientist
Character traits good scientists share: curiosity, reasoning, creativity, patience, and skepticism and how they help scientists study new things
skepticism
Chapter 2: Curiosity
How curiosity helps scientists form good questions
Can curiosity get you into trouble?
The story of Galileo: a very curious man
astronomer
Chapter 3: How Do Scientists
Use Reason?
What does "reasoning" entail
How Darwin's observations and reasoning led to his theory of Natural Selection
Explanation of evolution
climate evolution natural selection naturalist species
Chapter 4: How do Scientists
Use Creativity?
Why creativity is important in solving problems
Solving an unscientific problem with creativity
How Einstein uses a creative approach in working out the Theory of Relativity
(no new vocabulary)
Chapter 5: Do You Have the Patience to be a
Scientist?
Why patience is needed in scientific study
Thomas Edison's invention of the light bulb
outcome
Chapter 6: How Does
Skepticism Make You a Good Scientist?
Why and when scientists sometimes need to be skeptical
The Wright brothers invention of the airplane
hypothesis scientific method
Chapter 7: Why Should
Scientists be Open to New Ideas?
The importance of being open to new ideas
Past "Crazy Ideas" worth exploring and why
"Crazy Ideas" not worth exploring and why
(no new vocabulary)
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Book: Life on a Research Ship by Rose Eveleth
Engineering, Technology and Application of Science: Print Features
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range: 430-1210
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: What
Oceanographers Do
What oceanographers look for: plankton, zooplankton, and phytoplankton
Differences between boats and ships
The design of a research ship
The ship's research route
Research questions
micrometers oceanography plankton phytoplankton satellites species virus zooplankton
Chapter 2: Everyday Life on a
Ship
Daily life and schedule on a research ship
Ocean experiments
How the research ship was run and why
Ship safety and convenience
experiments
Chapter 3: What is
Phytoplankton?
Characteristics and features of phytoplankton
The evolution of Ehux plankton
Why phytoplankton are important for ocean life (place in food chain)
Why phytoplankton are important for the Earth's atmosphere (for removing carbon dioxide and cooling the Earth)
albedo atmosphere calcite calcite chemical evolved flagella food chain reflects
Chapter 4: What is a Virus?
Characteristics of viruses?
How viruses affect their hosts
How viruses replicate
How viruses help ocean life
DNA host replicate
Chapter 5: What Viruses Do
How viruses infect phytoplankton
Fighting off viruses
Virus adaptation and the "Balance of Nature"
chemical signaling
Chapter 6: How do Scientists
Capture Organisms to Study
Obtaining seawater for research
Filtering seawater for organisms
Testing organisms
(no new vocabulary)
Chapter 7: Beyond the Trip-
The Research Challenge
Experiments on the ship
Continuing experimental studies at home
Getting answers from research
(no new vocabulary)
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Book: Microscopes: Seeing the Tiny World by Allen Mogol
Engineering, Technology and Application of Science: Inferring
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range: 340-1230
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: Life Before
Microscopes
Why medical instruments are sterilized
How germs travel
Unsanitary hospital conditions before microscopes
Louis Pasteur and the study of microscopic germs
bacteria germs sterilized
Chapter 2: The Invention of the Microscope
What microscopes enable people to study
Invention of the first compound microscope
Famous scientists who improved the microscope
The discovery of microbes
astronomer compound microscope magnified microbes, microscope
Chapter 3: The Light
Microscope: Its Parts and How it
Works
What to look at under a microscope
The parts of the light microscope and how it works
Lighting up and focusing specimens for examination
How microscope lenses work together
eyepiece focus wheel light microscope objective lenses revolver
Chapter 4: How Microscopes
Have Aided Science
How microscopes have helped medical advancements
How microscopes are used in immunology, microbiology, and forensics
How microscopes have aided the understanding of nature
forensics immunology microbiology
Chapter 5: Microscopes in the
Fight Against Cancer
Studying cancerous cells under the microscope
Technological advances (microscopes using laser lights)
Microscopes that make 3-D pictures
biopsies genes immune system mutated
Chapter 6: Be a Scientist: What Can You
Observe Under a Microscope
Examining water from a fresh water pond under a microscope
A close up of tiny fresh water crustaceans (daphnia and hydra)
(no new vocabulary)
Chapter 7: The Electron
Microscope and Beyond
The parts of an electron microscope
How electron microscopes work
Why living cells and tissues can’t be viewed with an electron microscope
electron vacuum
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Book: The Scientific Method by Katrina Macht
Engineering, Technology and Application of Science: Using Graphic Features
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range: 340-1110
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: What Is the
Scientific Method?
When and why the scientific method is used
Observing nature and asking questions
Researching and collecting information
Creating a hypothesis
Testing the hypothesis and drawing conclusions
The uses of scientific inquiry
classify data experiments hypothesis osmometer samples scientific inquiry
Chapter 2: Thinking Like a
Scientist
Differences between qualitative and quantitative observations
Keeping records of observations
observations qualitative, quantitative observations
Chapter 3: Keeping Records
Using charts and graphs to organize data
Different advantages of bar graphs and pie graphs
bar graph pie chart
Chapter 4: Scientific Habits of
Mind: The Quest for Truth!
What scientific "Habits of Mind" entail
How curiosity leads to scientific study
Why skepticism is important for scientific discovery
endangered habits of mind skepticism
Chapter 5: When Is a
Prediction Not a Hypothesis
Differences between predictions and hypotheses
Testing hypotheses (earthworm example)
prediction
Chapter 6: Let’s Experiment! -
Part I
Generating scientific question and hypotheses
Personal values vs. scientific inquiry
conclusion values
Chapter 7: Let’s Experiment!
- Part II
Designing an experiment
Understanding variables
Setting up control and experimental groups
Collecting and recording data
Drawing conclusions
control group dependent variable experimental group independent variable
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Book: Scientists Who Changed the World by Allen Allan Mogol
Engineering, Technology and Application of Science: Determining Importance
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range: 310-1190
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: Copernicus Views
the Solar System in a New Way
The radical idea of Copernicus
An old and incorrect belief about the universe: the geocentric view of planetary and sun orbits
Difficulty proving the heliocentric theory
geocentric theory heliocentric theory physics, revolving skeptical, solar system
Chapter 2: Galileo Makes Extraordinary
Discoveries
The scientific tale of Galileo
Using telescopes to study the universe
Observing the Milky Way& Jupiter's moons
Proving the heliocentric theory
astronomer Milky Way sphere telescope
Chapter 3: Isaac Newton Laws
of Motion
How Sir Isaac Newton was driven by curiosity
How Newton's three Laws of Motion work and what they mean
accelerate calculus gravity, Laws of Motion, mass
Chapter 4: Charles Darwin and
Survival of the Fittest
Charles Darwin's observations of barnacles
Darwin's observations of finch species (Galapagos)
How Darwin's finch observations led to his Theory of Natural Selection
Adaptation and evolution of animals over time
adapt, barnacles evolution, fossils inherit, natural selection physical characteristics, species survival of the fittest
Chapter 5: Louis Pasteur –
Discovers Germs
How Louis Pasteur discovered germs
The significance of Pasteur's discovery in terms of preventing the spread of disease (germ theory)
Misunderstandings before Pasteur's discoveries
Importance of the microscope
bacteria cells germs and germ theory microbiology viruses
Chapter 6: Marie Curie – First Woman to Receive
the Nobel Prize
The life and work of Marie Curie
The study of physics
Understanding radioactivity and its importance
The discovery of new elements
atoms elements radioactivity uranium
Chapter 7: Albert Einstein –Way
Universe Works
Life of Albert Einstein
How Einstein's Theory of Relativity explains how the universe works
patent
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Book: The Space Race by Allen Mogol, Joseph Bennington-Castro, and Emily Karp
Engineering, Technology and Application of Science: Making Connections
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range: 270-1160
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: Exploring Space and
the Cold War
Human fascination with space
How hot air balloons work
History of airplane flight
The beginning of the Cold War and the Space Race
astronauts Cold War dense gravity molecules, orbit
Chapter 2: The Space Race is
On!
How the first man-made satellite worked (Sputnik)
Early rockets
The importance of NASA and Project Mercury
The USSR and the US sent first humans into space
New space goals set
NASA Project Mercury satellite Sputnik
Chapter 3: Neck and Neck- The
Space Race Evens Out
The importance of the Gemini Missions (for landing a man
on the moon) Launching a satellite to orbit the moon Walking in space
Gemini Missions
Chapter 4: Tragedy & Triumph: Landing A Man on
the Moon
The goals of the Apollo Program
Reasons for tragedy in the launch of Apollo 1
NASA's new plan to land astronauts safely on the Moon
Comparing the command, service and lunar modules Neil Armstrong's landing on the moon
Apollo Program
Chapter 5: Apollo & The End of
the Space Race
Problems with Apollo 13: explosion in service module
New space missions
How lunar roving vehicles work
Setting up a space station
lunar roving vehicles Skylab space shuttle space station
Chapter 6: Space Shuttles
Parts of the space shuttle and how they function: external tank, solid rocket boosters, & orbiter vehicle
Why the tragedy of the Space Shuttle Challenger occurred
meteorology O-Ring seals orbiter vehicle payload solid rocket boosters
Chapter 7: The End of Space
Shuttles & Beyond
The importance and function of the ISS
Building the ISS
Next steps for NASA
ISS modular
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Book: Superstition or Science? By Bill Isecke
Engineering, Technology and Application of Science: Inferring
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range: 350-1060
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: Old Beliefs: Science or
Superstition?
The relationship between understanding and control
What superstitions are
Old superstitions
Is science perfect?
environment meteor rituals superstitions
Chapter 2: Resistance to
Change
Why people resist new ideas
Resistance to new ideas: Controversy over the center of our solar system: geocentric vs. heliocentric model
Other false beliefs: blood letting
geocentric model heliocentric model
Chapter 3: Cause or
Coincidence? You Decide!
Experimental variables
Positive vs. negative correlations
Correlations vs. coincidence
Correlation vs. causation
correlation negative correlation positive correlation variables
Chapter 4: Occam’s Razor
Why the simplest explanation is usually the best one
Understanding Occam's Razor
Another example: the Geocentric Model
Occam’s Razor
Chapter 5: Fact or Opinion?
You Decide!
What we know and what we believe
Fact vs. opinion
Finding evidence
data fallacy Milky Way Galaxy
Chapter 6: It Takes More
Than Just Guessing
Testing scientific ideas - What is a hypothesis?
Testing a hypothesis
Why hypotheses must be falsifiable
falsifiable hypothesis testable
Chapter 7: Why Should
Scientists be Open to New Ideas?
What the placebo effect is
Control vs. experimental groups
Testing a new flu medicine
What the nocebo effect is
control group experimental groups nocebo effect placebo effect
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Book: Weather by Nancy Finton and Emily Karp
Engineering, Technology and Application of Science: Monitoring for Meaning
Readability Range of Chapters: Grade levels 3.5-8.5 (at ½ year increments) Lexile Range: 410-1120
Chapter Concepts Content Vocabulary
Chapter 1: Weather Stories
What meteorologists do
How people predicted weather before modern equipment
Ancient forecasting methods that still work today
forecasts meteorologists
Chapter 2: Why Forecasts
Matter
Why we care about weather predictions
Need for predicting conditions like floods and droughts
Making predictions based on weather patterns
How weather predictions can help keep people safe
dams drought evacuate saturate weather patterns
Chapter 3: How Weather
Works
What happens in the Earth's atmosphere
Measuring air pressure
Causes of weather changes: energy from the sun, air pressure and wind
Cold and warm fronts
air pressure atmosphere fronts
Chapter 4: Basic Weather
Tools and What They Measure
Factors that drive weather
Early tools that measure weather: hydrometers, barometers, and thermometers
How anemometers measure wind speed
How rain gauges are used
anemometer barometers humidity precipitation rain gauge
Chapter 5: How Good are the Current Weather
Tools?
Short range weather vs. long range weather forecasting
How Doppler Radar works
Use of weather balloons in weather forecasting
How weather satellites work
Using computer models in forecasting
computer models Doppler radar radar satellites weather balloons
Chapter 6: The Hunt for
Extreme Weather
Storm chasing to gather data
Relationship between supercells and tornadoes
Predicting hurricanes
storm chasers supercells
Chapter 7: Climate Change
and Weather
U.S. climate - Difference between weather and climate
Precipitation and condensation
Greenhouse gasses and global warming
climate global warming greenhouse gases
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