This scientific article discusses several aspects of blood. It explains how to calculate the typical amount of blood by bodyweight, the channel system of veins and arteries, medical conclusions from blood exams, the reasons for bleeding nose and black spots. In the last part, the different components of blood are explained, such as red and white blood cells. Links to additional pages provide more detailed information on some of the sections. The text is written in child-friendly language for native speakers age 8 and up.

This scientific article explains the features and functions of the human brain. It explains the physical features of the brain and how it is connected to the rest of the nervous system. More information regarding its vegetative functions, the processing speed, and moods provide further information. The text is written for native speakers 9 years and up.

This scientific article highlights a multitude of aspects about the tropical rainforest: global location, ethymology, fauna and flora, famous jungle researchers like Jane Goodall, consequences and reasons for jungle destruction, and suggestions that everybody can do to prevent jungle destruction. A link provides more information about the life and work of Jane Goodall. The text is written in child-friendly language and appropriate for readers age 8 and up.

This informational text explores how and why igloos are built and how ice can act as an insulator. The test is at a reading level appropriate for fourth through fifth grades. It is a pdf file that includes only the text and a glossary.

This Project GLAD unit will address human body systems and their interactions.  It is an integrated science and ELA unit for 5th grade.  Students will know major body systems, their parts, and how those systems work together in the human body.

This informational text explores how glaciers form, have eroded and shaped Earth's landscape. It is at a reading level appropriate for fourth through fifth grades. It is a full-color pdf file that can be printed, cut, and folded to form a 2 1/8" by 2 3/4" book. It contains color photographs and illustrations.

This unit is designed for students to learn to make judgments and decisions based on facts, and to use informational and imaginative speech to present their personal viewpoint and opinion to others. Students experience, first hand, taxation without representation, and will develop a very real sense for the need to preserve the inherent freedoms of man. Using the American flag as a graphic organizer, students will develop a clear understanding of the actions and reactions of the American colonists to British rule and to our most important national holiday, the 4th of July. Historically significant events will be studied and organized through exploration of facts and opinions and interaction with informational text and class discussion.

Students will read a biography about President Lincoln's life and write a summary based on the passage This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read a passage and examples, and then write to answer questions and apply a strategy based on the passage. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read a passage and write textual evidence to support a main idea. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read a passage and write to answer questions based on the passage. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read a passage and use context clues to determine the meanings of words. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read a passage, write answers to questions based on the passage, and write to explain and justify their position. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read a passage and use context clues to determine the meaning of vocabulary in the passage. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students read a piece of narrative nonfiction about the American Revolution. Students will determine which statements in the text can be proven true or false and which express someone's feelings or beliefs. Students will apply this comprehension skill to a discussion of how differences in opinion can lead to a revolution.

In this lesson, students read and comprehend the text "They Called Her Molly Pitcher" by Anne Rockwell. In the first activity (p. 388), students are introduced to content area vocabulary associated with the story. In the Anchor Text activity (p. 392), students focus on the target skill of conclusions and generalizations by using details to explain ideas that are not directly stated or that are generally true. In an associated activity (p. 402), students will read a play based on historical content and then compare it to the story "They Called Her Molly Pitcher."

In this lesson,students work to transform narrative-style letters into poetic format and they are forced to think carefully about where to end each line. Students begin by discussing letters they have written and working with an online tool as an introduction to letter poems. As a group, students look at a letter form of “This is Just to Say” by William Carlos Williams and add line breaks to turn it into a poem. They then compare the poem they created with the original, discussing why the poet made the line break choices he did. Next, students
work in small groups to rewrite another letter as a poem and then compare the various groups’ results with the original poem. Students then use a Venn diagram to compare letters and poems. Finally, they compose their own letter poems.

This informational text explores Laura Gladstone's experience working at the IceCube telescope at the South Pole. She shares the clothing worn, food, what she did for fun, and how life there differs from what most of us know, including what one does NOT hear or see. The text is written at a grade four through grade five reading level. This is a PDF containing the informational text and a glossary.

In this lesson using Ben’s Dream, a picture book by Chris Van Allsburg, students highlight ten major landmarks of the world: the Statue of Liberty, Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Parthenon, the Sphinx, St. Basil’s Cathedral, the Taj Mahal, the Great Wall of China, and Mount Rushmore. After reading and discussing Ben’s Dream, students identify the landmarks shown in the book and examine photographs of them. Working in small groups, students select one landmark to research. Using their research skills, students locate these famous landmarks, conduct further research on them, publish their findings using an online tool, and share that information with the class.

You have learned that there are different areas of social studies. You have learned about geography. You have also learned about economics. In this chapter you will learn about history. You will discover that history is what happened in the past.