What's New
1) Announcing: Science A–Z PROJECTABLES!
Your Science A–Z subscription just doubled in value! Watch your students’ science and reading comprehension skyrocket, AND save money and paper, with Science A–Z's brand-new projectable resources. No other curriculum provider offers multileveled science resources in an interactive, projectable format with whiteboard tools. These interactive tools turn ANY whiteboard or screen into an interactive whiteboard. Use these interactive tools to:
• underline or highlight key words and concepts
• mask parts of a page and ask students to fill in the blanks
• frame sections of a page to draw students’ attention
• project Graphic Organizers, Process Activities, Quizzes, and Discussion Cards for whole-class instruction
In fact, there are countless ways to use these projectables to deepen your science instruction. We’ve given you quite a few suggestions in the Projectable Teaching Tips. Use this link, or download the Tips from the top of any projectable viewing page on the website.
To view Science A–Z resources in the new projectable format, choose a science unit and look for the projector-screen icon beside each resource. Simply click this icon and begin interacting with the projected version. Once you begin exploring, please let us know what you think! You can also use the Help! button or contact customer service for further assistance with the projectable resources, or with anything else related to Science A–Z and Learning A–Z.
2) NEW CONTENT: Solids, Liquids, and Gases
for Grades 3–4 How many states of matter do you see in this lunch? You can probably identify the crackers and sandwich as solids and the lemonade as a liquid. But what about the soup? It’s actually a mixture of solids and liquids. And if the grilled cheese sandwich is hot enough, the cheese might be close to a liquid until it cools. The lemonade is a mixture of liquids and solids called a solution. What about other things, like the sand in this hourglass? Is it a liquid or a solid? It pours like a liquid, but each grain looks like a solid. How would you classify whipped cream? Gelatin? Hair spray? Science A–Z's newest Physical Science unit, Solids, Liquids, and Gases, for grades 3–4, explains that everything is made of matter and that matter can undergo changes as temperature and other conditions change. Get your students—and your friends—thinking about the qualities of states of matter, and you’ll find that you can’t stop!
 
Sandwich: © iStockphoto.com/Johanna Goodyear; Soup: © iStockphoto.com/Shawn Gearhart; Lemonade:
© iStockphoto.com/AC_BNPhotos; Hourglass © rphotos/123RF
3) STATE STANDARDS To find Science A–Z resources that meet your state's science standards, click on the left-navigation State Standards button. This takes you to our State Standards page. There, you will choose your grade level and state to get a list of standards. Links from this list of standards will take you to Science A–Z Nonfiction Books, Process Activities, and Unit Guides that satisfy your standards.
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