Exploring Science

Units and Weeks

• Unit 1/Week 1 Day 1 Add story "Making Observations" by Vijaya Bodach into the lesson.
• Unit 1/Week 1 Day 2 Add story "We Have the Nerve, Now Let's Explore" by Kelly Doudna into the lesson.
• Unit 1/Week 2 Day 1 Add story "Helpers in My Community" by Bobbie Kalman into the lesson.
• Unit 1/Week 2 Day 2 Add story "Community Helpers from A to Z" by Bobbie Kalman into the lesson.
• Unit 1/Week 3 Day 1 Add story "Bugs are Insects" by Anne Rockwell into the lesson.
• Unit 1/Week 3 Day 2 Add story "On Beyond Bugs: All About Insects" by Tish Rabe into the lesson.
• Unit 1/Week 4 Day 1 Add story "In My Backyard" by Valarie Giogas into the lesson.
• Unit 1/Week 4 Day 2 Add story "My backyard Garden" by Carol Lerner into the lesson.
• Unit 2/Week 1 Day 1 Add story "Water" by Frank Asch into the lesson.
• Unit 2/Week 1 Day 2 Add story "A Drop of Water" by Gordon Morrison into the lesson.
• Unit 2/Week 2 Day 1 Add story "What Is the World Made Of? All About Solids, Liquids, and Gases" by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfield into the lesson.
• Unit 2/Week 2 Day 2 Add story "Change It! Solids, Liquids, Gases and You by Adrienne Mason into the lesson.
• Unit 2/Week 3 Day 1 Add story "Will It Float or Sink" by Melissa Stewart into the lesson. Optional is to watch The Magic School Bus Ups and Downs.
• Unit 2/Week 3 Day 1 Add story "Who Sank the Boat?" by Pamela Allen into the lesson.
• Unit 2/Week 4 Day 1 Add story "Zack's Alligator" by Shirley Mozelle into the lesson.
• Unit 2/Week 4 Day 2 Add story "Ducks Don't Get Wet" by Augusta Goldin into the lesson.
• Unit 3/Week 1 Day 1 Add story "Air Is All Around You" by Franklyn M. Branley into the lesson.
• Unit 3/Week 1 Day 2 Add story "Air: Outside, Inside, and All Around" by Stille into the lesson.
• Unit 3/Week 2 Day 1 Add story "Feel the Wind" by Arthur Dorros into the lesson.
• Unit 3/Week 2 Day 2 Add story "I Face the Wind" by Vicki Cobb into the lesson.
• Unit 3/Week 3 Day 1 Add story "The Magic Fan" by Keith Baker into the lesson. Optional would be to watch The Magic School Bus Rides the Wind.
• Unit 3/Week 3 Day 2 Add story "One Leaf Rides the Wind" by Celeste Mannis into the lesson.
• Unit 3/Week 4 Day 1 Add story "Flight" by Robert Burleigh into the lesson.
• Unit 3/Week 4 Day 2 Add story "Birds: Nature's Magnificent Flying Machines" by Caroline Arnold into the lesson.
• Unit 4/Week 1 Day 1 Add story "What Makes a Shadow" by Clyde Robert Bulla into the lesson.
• Unit 4/Week 1 Day 2 Add story "Nothing Sticks Like a Shadow" by Ann Tompert into the lesson.
• Unit 4/Week 2 Day 1 Add story "Down Comes the Rain" by Franklyn Mansfield into the lesson.
• Unit 4/Week 2 Day 2 Add story "Rain" by Marion Dane Bauer into the lesson.
• Unit 4/Week 3 Day 1 Add story "Clouds" by Anne F. Rockwell into the lesson.
• Unit 4/Week 3 Day 2 Add story "The Cloud Book" by Tomie dePaola into the lesson.
• Unit 4/Week 4 Day 1 Add story "Oh Say Can You Say What's the Weather Today? All About Weather" by Tish Rabe into the lesson.
• Unit 4/Week 4 Day 2 Add story "What Will the Weather Be?" by Lynda Dewitt into the lesson.
• Unit 5/Week 1 Day 1 Add story "How a Seed Grows" by Helene J. Jordan into the lesson.
• Unit 5/Week 1 Day 2 Add story "A Fruit Is a Suitcase for Seeds" by Jean Richards into the lesson.
• Unit 5/Week 2 Day 1 Add story "Our Tree Names Steve" by Alan Zweibel into the lesson.
• Unit 5/Week 2 Day 2 Add story "A Tree Is Nice" by Janice Udry into the lesson.
• Unit 5/Week 3 Day 1 Add story "We're Going On A Leaf Hunt" by Steve Metzger into the lesson.
• Unit 5/Week 3 Day 2 Add story "Why Do Leaves Change Color?" by Betsy Maestro into the lesson.
• Unit 5/Week 4 Day 1 Add story "You Can't Smell a Flower with Your Ear!" by Joanna Cole into the lesson.
• Unit 5/Week 4 Day 2 Add story "Buds and Blossoms: A Book About Flowers" by Blackaby into the lesson.
• Unit 6/Week 1 Day 1 Add story "Dirt: Jump Into Science" by Steve Tomecek into the lesson.
• Unit 6/Week 1 Day 2 Add story "A Handful of Dirt" by Raymond Bial into the lesson.
• Unit 6/Week 2 Day 1 Add story "Sand to Stone: And Back Again" by Nancy Bo Flood into the lesson.
• Unit 6/Week 2 Day 2 Add story "Welcome to the Sea of Sand" by Jane Yolen into the lesson.
• Unit 6/Week 3 Day 1 Add story "Clay" by Henry Pluckrose into the lesson.
• Unit 6/Week 3 Day 2 Add story "From Mud to House" by Bertram T. Knight into the lesson.
• Unit 6/Week 4 Day 1 Add story "Let's Go Rock Collecting" by Roma Gans into the lesson.
• Unit 6/Week 4 Day 2 Add story "If You Find a Rock" by Peggy Christian into the lesson.
• Unit 7/Week 1 Day 1 Add story "What's the Solution" by Karen Lewitt Dunn into the lesson.
• Unit 7/Week 1 Day 2 Add story "Mixing and Separating" by Chris Oxlade into the lesson.
• Unit 7/Week 2 Day 1 Add story "What are Crystals" by Molly Aloian into the lesson.
• Unit 7/Week 2 Day 2 Add story "Growing Crystals" by Ann Squire into the lesson.
• Unit 7/Week 3 Day 1 Add story "All About Heat" by Lisa Trumbauer into the lesson. Optional is to watch The Magic School Bus In the Arctic.
• Unit 7/Week 3 Day 2 Add story "Hot and Bright: A Book About the Sun" by Dana Meachen into the lesson.
• Unit 7/Week 4 Day 1 Add story "Frozen Noses" by Jan Carr into the lesson.
• Unit 7/Week 4 Day 2 Add story "Melting and Freezing: Matter" (Science Readers: A Closer Look) into the lesson.
• Unit 8/Week 1 Day 1 Add story "Oscar and the Bat: A Book About Sound" by Geoff Waring into the lesson.
• Unit 8/Week 1 Day 2 Add story "Sounds All Around" by Wendy Pfeffer into the lesson.
• Unit 8/Week 2 Day 1 Add story "Sound: Loud, Soft, High, and Low" by Natalie M. Rosinsky into the lesson.
• Unit 8/Weel 2 Day 2 Add story "Sounds of the Wild" series by various authors.
• Unit 8/Week 3 Day 1 Add story "What's That Sound?" by Mary Lawrence into the lesson.
• Unit 8/Week 3 Day 2 Add story "The Sounds Around Town" by Maria Carluccio into the lesson.
• Unit 8/Week 4 Day 1 Add story "Who's Making That Noise?" by Philip Hawthorn into the lesson.
• Unit 8/Week 4 Day 2 Add story "A Sound Like Someone Trying Not to Make a Sound" by John Irving into the lesson.
• Unit 9/Week 1 Day 1 Add story "Oscar and the Cricket: A Book About Moving and Rolling" by Geoff Waring into the lesson.
• Unit 9/Week 1 Day 2 Add story "Rolling Rose" by James Stevenson into the lesson.
• Unit 9/Week 2 Day 1 Add story "Energy in Motion" by Melissa Stewart into the lesson.
• Unit 9/Week 2 Day 2 Add story "Forces & Motions" by Clint Twist into the lesson.
• Unit 9/Week 3 Day 1 Add story "The Three Spinnnig Fairies" by Lisa Campbell Ernst into the lesson.
• Unit 9/Week 3 Day 2 Watch The Magic School Bus Spins A Web.
• Unit 9/Week 4 Day 1 Add story "Tug-Of-War: All about Balance" by Kirsten Hall into the lesson.
• Unit 9/Week 4 Day 2 Add story "Balancing Act" by Ellen Stoll Walsh into the lesson.