4 Natural Science & Technology Textbooks with Videos, Grades 4-6

4 Natural Science and Technology Textbooks with Videos, Grades 4-6

These are four engaging texts with worksheets in the student version, and a teacher edition giving explanations and answers for each one. They cover these subject areas, as listed below: plants, animals, food, matter and materials, energy, electricity, earth, and the solar system. The folders linked below also contain teaching videos and documents that supplement the content discussed and taught in each textbook.

Grade 4, Part 1 - Natural Sciences and Technology Textbook with Videos

Life and Living
- Living And Non-Living Things     
-Structure Of Plants And Animals
-What Plants Need To Grow
-Habitats Of Animals And Plants
-Structures For Animal Shelters
Matter And Materials
-Materials Around Us
-Solid Materials
-Strengthening Materials
-Strong Frame Structures

Grade 4, Part 2 - Natural Sciences and Technology Textbook with Videos

Energy And Change
-Energy And Energy Transfer
-Energy Around Us
-Movement And Energy In A System
-Energy And Sound
Earth And Beyond
-Planet Earth
-The Sun
-The Earth And The Sun
-Rocket Systems
-The Moon

Grade 6, Part 1 - Natural Sciences and Technology Textbook with Videos

Life and Living
-Photosynthesis
-Nutrients in food
-Nutrition
-Food Processing
-Ecosystems and Foodwebs
Matter and Materials
-Solids, Liquids And Gases
-Mixtures
-Solutions As Special Mixtures
-Dissolving
-Mixtures And Water Resources
-Processes To Purify Water

Grade 6, Part 2 - Natural Sciences and Technology Textbook with Videos

Contents:
Energy and Change
-Electric Circuits
-Electrical Conductors and Insulators
-Systems to Solve Problems
-Where Electricity Comes From
Earth and Beyond
-The Solar System
-Movements of the Earth and Planets
-The Movement of the Moon
-Systems to Explore the Moon and Mars
-Systems for Looking into Space

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30 Geography and Map Lessons & Activities with Maps of the 50 States

30 Geography and Map Lessons & Activities with Maps of the 50 States

These lessons, activities, worksheets, maps directly accessible in the above link are for various grade levels, as are the 50 States Maps with Counties and the 50 States Congressional Maps. Included is a nice lesson unit with all supplemental materials titled The Fifty States Geography Unit for grades 4-6. Also included here are two these two textbooks: Home Geography For Primary Grades, by C.C. Long and Elementary Geography by Charlotte Mason, with illustrations and maps.

• 3rd Grade Geography Lesson Unit
• Congressional Districts of the 116th Congress of the U.S.
• Different Types of Maps Presentation
• Elementary Geography by Charlotte Mason with Illustrations and Maps
• Geo-Spatial Thinking Activities and Resources for Teachers
• Geography Food For Thought Worksheets, Grades 8-10
• Geography of the US, Student Reader and Teacher Guide, Grade 5, CoreKnowledge
• Geography Study Guide Practice, 7 pages
• Google Earth Lesson for Grades 6-12
• Guide to Historic Maps as Teaching Tools, Grades 5-8
• History and Geography -The Renaissance and the Age of Exploration, G6-8
• Home Geography For Primary Grades, by CC Long, large font
• Home Geography For Primary Grades, by CC Long, smaller font
• How Latitude, Elevation, and Local Geography Affect Climate Lesson, Grades 5-8
• Human Urban Geography AP, HS
• Latitude and Longitude Reading and Study
• Map of US State Capital Locations
• Map Skills Activities from National Geographic, Grade K-6
• Mapmaking Guide, Grades 3-5
• Mapmaking Guide, Grades 6-8
• Mapmaking Guide, Grades 9-12
• Mapmaking Guide, Grades K-2
• Mapping and Analyzing Race and Ethnicity, Student and Teacher, Grades 8-12
• Maps and MapMakers, Seeing What’s On the Map Activity, Middle School-HS
• The Fifty States Geography Unit, Grade 5
• United States Time Zone Map
• US Geography Handouts, Grades 3-6
• US Map of National Parks
• Using Density to Understand Land Use , Student and Teacher, Grades 11-12
• What Role Does Geography Play in the Census, Student and Teacher, Grades 8-12
• World Atlas Map

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75 Earth Science & Climate Lessons, Activities & Learning Videos

75 Earth Science & Climate Lessons, Activities & Learning Videos

These are wonderful and insightful lessons, activities and videos that will engage, question and teach your 3rd through 9th grade students about Earth and Climate Science. Most of these are published by NASA. The lessons and activities (pdf format) are listed here first, following by the videos further below, which are in mp4 format. All are directly accessible at the repository link above.

• A Streamflow River Study, 9th Grade Curriculum Unit
• Building for Hurricanes Lesson
• Cleaning Water Activity Students
• Cleaning Water Activity Teacher
• Earth Systems Interactions Lesson
• Earth Wheel Lesson
• Earth's Water Lesson
• El Nino Lesson
• Evaporation Investigation Lesson
• Exploring the Water Cycle Lesson
• Follow the Water Lesson and Activities
• Freshwater Availability Classroom Activity
• Geographical Influences Lesson
• Global Energy Balance Presentation
• Global Energy Budget Lesson
• Global Precipitation Measurement Lesson
• Globe Earth System Poster Activities
• How do you Build a Weather Satellite Lesson
• Huricanes Pre-Post Assessments
• Hurricaines Teacher Guide
• Hurricane Frequency and Intensity Lesson
• Hurricane Katrina Learning Module Student
• Hurricane Katrina Learning Module Teacher
• Hurricanes Lesson Student Sheet
• Hurricanes Lesson Teacher Guide
• Investigating the Climate System Modules
• Landforms Lesson Grade 2
• Meteorology - An Educators Resource, Grades 5-9
• Models of Landforms and Bodies of Water Lesson
• Rain Gauge Activity Presentation
• Rain Gauge Activity Teacher Guide
• Real World Measuring Raindrops Lesson
• Rubric for Evaluating Earth System Science Analyses
• Sizing Up the Clouds
• Storm Structure and Mesoscale Dynamics
• The Water Cycle Lesson
• Virtual Earth Activities in Mathematics, Science, and Technology
• Water Conservation Lesson
• Water Cycle Dice Game Instructions
• Water Filtration Educators Guide Grades 5-8
• Water in Earth's Hydrosphere Lesson
• Water in the Atmosphere Lesson
• Water in the Biosphere Lesson
• Water in the Geosphere Lesson
• Water Works on a Blue Planet
• Weather Teacher Guide and Lessons
• Write the Book on Weather Metrics

28 Earth Science Learning Videos:

• A Multi-dimensional View of Hurricane Matthew.mp4
• A Tour of the Water Cycle.mp4
• Beautiful Earth Floods and Landslides.mp4
• Beautiful Earth Hurricanes.mp4
• Beautiful Earth Snow.mp4
• Components of the Water Cycle on a Flat Map.mp4
• Components of the Water Cycle.mp4
• Dive Into a 360-View of Hurricane Maria.gif
• Dive Into a 360-View of Hurricane Maria.mp4
• GPM's First Global Rainfall and Snowfall Map.mp4
• Monsoons -Wet, Dry, Repeat.mp4
• Our World - What is a Cloud.mp4
• Our World - What is a Hurricane.mp4
• Our World - What is Weather.mp4
• Our World Cool Clouds.mp4
• Real World Hurricane Hunters.mp4
• Sea Surface Temperature, Salinity and Density.mp4
• Show Me the Water.mp4
• The Great Ocean Conveyor Belt.mp4
• The Water Cycle Heating the Ocean 1.mp4
• The Water Cycle Heating the Ocean 2.mp4
• The Water Cycle Heating the Ocean 3.mp4
• The Water Cycle Steaming the Air 1.mp4
• The Water Cycle Steaming the Air 2.mp4
• The Water Cycle Watering the Land.mp4
• Water Falls - Getting the Big Picture.mp4
• Water Vapor Animation.mp4
• Water Water Everywhere.mp4
• What We Don't Know about Snow.mp4

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Second Grade Reading Lessons & Activities by CoreKnowledge

Second Grade Reading Lessons & Activities by CoreKnowledge

This is the set of reading and language arts lesson and teaching modules for the second grade published by CoreKnowledge. Grade 2 Reading, Literature and Language standards covered by these units, workbooks and readers include the following:

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity:

• By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories and poetry, and informational texts (history/social studies, science, and technical texts) in the Grades 2–3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

Speaking and Listening:

• Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification

Phonics and Word Recognition:

• Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels, and words with common prefixes and suffixes.
• Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences. 
• Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.

Fluency:

• Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
• Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
• Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
• Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.

Conventions of Standard English:

• Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
• Form and use the past tense of frequently occurring irregular verbs (e.g., sat, hid, told).
• Produce, expand, and rearrange complete simple and compound sentences (e.g., The boy watched the movie; The little boy watched the movie; The action movie was watched by the little boy).
• Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
• Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use:

• Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on Grade 2 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.
• Use knowledge of the meaning of individual words to predict the meaning of compound words (e.g., birdhouse, lighthouse, housefly; bookshelf, notebook, bookmark).

Documents to view and download for the Grade 2 Lessons, Activities and Readers:

• Grade 2 Introduction, Assessment & Remediation All Units
• Grade 2 Individual Code Chart
• Grade 2 Code Flip Book Consonants
• Grade 2 Code Flip Book Vowels
• Grade 2 Fluency Packet
• Grade 2 Spelling Card Set
• Grade 2 Listening Ancient Greek Civilization.zip
• Grade 2 Listening Cycles in Nature.zip
• Grade 2 Listening Early Asian Civilizations.zip
• Grade 2 Listening Fairy Tales and Tall Tales.zip
• Grade 2 Listening Fighting-for-a-Cause.zip
• Grade 2 Listening Greek-Myths.zip
• Grade 2 Listening Immigration.zip
• Grade 2 Listening Insects.zip
• Grade 2 Listening Westward Expansion.zip
• Grade 2 Listening The Human Body Building Blocks and Nutrition.zip
• Grade 2 Listening The US Civil War.zip
• Grade 2 Listening The War of 1812.zip
• Grade 2 Unit 1 Reader, Teacher Guide, Workbook
• Grade 2 Unit 2 Reader, Teacher Guide, Workbook
• Grade 2 Unit 3 Reader, Teacher Guide, Workbook
• Grade 2 Unit 4 Reader, Teacher Guide, Workbook
• Grade 2 Unit 5 Reader, Teacher Guide, Workbook
• Grade 2 Unit 6 Reader, Teacher Guide, Workbook
• Grade 2 Unit 6 Timeline Cards

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4 Music Textbooks and Note Reading Worksheet

4  Music Textbooks and a Note Reading Worksheet

Here are well written and easy-to-understand four Music texts for beginning music theory students, for all grade  levels 5 through high school and beyond, along with a good, fundamental Treble Clef Note Reading Worksheet that will help those just learning their musical notes in the treble clef.

The Basic Elements of Music:

1. Time Elements
   1.1 Rhythm
   1.2 Simple Rhythm Activities
   1.3 Meter in Music
   1.4 Musical Meter Activities
   1.5 Tempo
   1.6 Tempo Activity
   1.7 Dynamics and Accents in Music
   1.8 Musical Dynamics Activity
   1.9 Musical Accent Activity
2. Pitch Elements
   2.1 Timbre
   2.2 Melody
   2.3 Harmony
3. Combining Time and Pitch
   3.1 The Textures of Music
   3.2 Musical Textures Activity
   3.3 An Introduction to Counterpoint
   3.4 Counterpoint Activities: Listening and Discussion
   3.5 Counterpoint Activities: Singing Rounds
   3.6 Music Form Activities
   3.7 Form in Music

Pitch Notation:

1. The Staff
2. The Notes on the Staff
3. Pitch: Sharp, Flat, and Natural Notes
4. Half Steps and Whole Steps
5. Intervals
6. Octaves and the Major-Minor Tonal System
7. Harmonic Series

Reading Music Common Notation:

1. Pitch
   1.1 The Staff
   1.2 Clef
   1.3 Pitch: Sharp, Flat, and Natural Notes
   1.4 Key Signature
   1.5 Enharmonic Spelling
2. Time
   2.1 Duration: Note Lengths in Written Music
   2.2 Duration: Rest Length
   2.3 Time Signature
   2.4 Pickup Notes and Measures
   2.5 Dots, Ties, and Borrowed Divisions
   2.6 Tempo
   2.7 Repeats and Other Musical Road Map Signs
3. Style
   3.1 Dynamics and Accents in Music
   3.2 Articulation

Reading Rhythm a Learning By Doing Course:

1. Learning by Doing: An Introduction
2. Reading Rhythm Introduction
3. A Steady Beat
4. Meter
5. Half Notes and Half Rests
6. Dividing the beat in half
7. Whole Notes and Tied Notes
8. Using Different Notes for the Beat
9. Dividing Beats into Thirds
10. Dotted Notes

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67 Art Lessons and Projects for all Grades

67 Art Lessons and Projects for all Grades

Here are 67 art projects and lessons for younger and older art students, covering many art genres and subject areas. 45 of these, from Elementary Visual Arts, are available as separate downloads in the folder linked above, and this document nicely details out 22 art lessons and activities (also in a smaller file size).

• 3D Kinetic Sculpture, Alex Calder
• Architecture, Art Nouveau, Natural Forms
• Art Brut and Symbolic Figures, Jean Dubuffet
• Color Field Paintings, Helen Frankenthaler
• Colorful Words and Telling Images, Visual Storytelling
• Comic Book Style Self-Portraits, Roy Lichtenstein
• Day of the Dead, Exploration of Warm and Cool Colors
• Degas Dancers, Pattern and Unity, Movement in Art
• Elements of Art, Charley Harper
• Elements of Art, Cy Twombly
• Elements of Art, Tree of Life
• Expressionism, Cubism, Marc Chagall
• Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, Paul Klee
• Figurative Narratives and Collage, Trenton Hancock
• Figure Drawing, Shape, Form and
• Georgia OKeeffe, A Closer Look
• Giant Kites of Guatemala, Cutural Holiday
• Introduction to Typography
• Landscape and Perspective, Maynard Dixon
• Landscape Materials
• Landscapes and Language Arts, Dr Seuss
• Language Arts, Visual Storytelling, Dr Seuss
• Memorials and Public Art, Maya Lin
• Mosaics, Art and the Environment
• Native American Culture
• Paper Quilts, Black History Month
• Picasso and Cubism, Self Portraits
• Plein Air Painting, Creating in Natural Settings
• Pop Art, Value, Shading, Hearts
• Popular Culture 3D Art, Jeff Koons
• Principals of Art, Line, Shape, Color, Texture
• Printmaking, Native American Heritage
• Scratchboard Landscapes
• Self Portraits, Amedeo Modigliani
• Self-Portaits Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism
• Self-Portraits, Frida Kahlo
• Sketches and Inventions, Leonardo da Vinci
• Spiral Jetty, Bird Habitat, Environmental Art
• Stained Glass Windows, Light Screens
• Statue of Liberty, Peter Max
• Street Art
• Symbolism, Modern Art, Collage, American Flag, Personal Flag
• Symbolism, Neo-Pop Artwork
• The Arches, Horizon Line, Foreground, Background
• Valentine Op Art Heart

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First Grade Reading Lessons & Activities by CoreKnowledge

First Grade Reading Lessons & Activities by CoreKnowledge

The Basic Code consonant sounds and spellings and the five short vowel sounds and spellings taught in Kindergarten CoreKnowledge Units 3-9 are reviewed in Grade 1 CoreKnowledge Unit 1. The remaining Basic Code vowel sounds and spellings are taught in Grade 1 Units 2-4. In a Basic Code lesson, students first learn to listen for and isolate a single sound and are then taught the spelling for that sound. Typically in this type of lesson, the teacher introduces the sound and conducts various oral language activities with the students to be certain they can identify the sound orally. The teacher then presents the spelling for that sound and models writing the spelling, as well as sounding out simple one-syllable words that use the spelling. Additional reading and writing practice opportunities for students then follow.The listening units include an anthology, supplemental guide, flip-charts, image cards.

Basic Code Spellings taught in these Grade 1 Lessons and Activities

Vowel Sounds and Spellings:

• /a/ as in hat
• /o/ as in hop
• /i/ as in it
• /e/ as in pet
• /u/ as in but
• /ee/ as in bee
• /ae/ as in cake
• /ie/ as in bite
• /oe/ as in home
• /ue/ as in cute
• /oo/ as in soon
• /oo/ as in look
• /ou/ as in shout
• /oi/ as in oil
• /aw/ as in paw
• /er/ as in her
• /ar/ as in car
• /or/ as in for

Consonant Sounds and Spellings:

• /p/ as in pot
• /t/ as in top
• /d/ as in dot
• /k/ as in cat, kid
• /g/ as in gift
• /n/ as in nut
• /h/ as in hot
• /s/ as in sun
• /f/ as in fit
• /v/ as in vet
• /z/ as in zip
• /m/ as in mad
• /b/ as in bat
• /l/ as in lip
• /r/ as in red
• /w/ as in wet
• /j/ as in jump
• /y/ as in yes
• /x/ as in tax
• /ch/ as in chin
• /sh/ as in shop
• /th/ as in thin
• /th/ as in them
• /qu/ as in quit
• /ng/ as in sing

The Advanced Code consists of all other spelling alternatives (over 100) used to spell the 44 phonemes in English. Examples of alternative spellings include ‘mm’ > /m/, ‘ss’> /s/, ‘c’ > /s/, ‘g’ > /j/, ‘ay’ > /ae/, ‘ey’ > /ee/. Some of these spelling alternatives occur relatively frequently in the English language, while others are quite rare.

The new Advanced Code taught in Grade 1 includes:

• /ch/ > 'tch' (Unit 5)
• /j/ > 'g' and ‘ge’ (Unit 5)
• /v/ > 've' (Unit 5)
• /r/ > 'wr' (Unit 5)
• /s/ > ‘c’, ‘ce’, and ‘se’ (Unit 6)
• /n/ > 'kn' (Unit 6)
• /ng/ > 'n' (Unit 6)
• /w/ > 'wh' (Unit 6)
• /ae/ > ‘ai’ and ‘ay’ (Unit 7)
• /oe/ > ‘oa’ (Unit 7)

Grade 1 Lessons and Activities:

• Grade 1 Introduction, Asssessment-Remediation Units 1 through 6
• Grade 1 Consonants Code Flip book
• Grade 1 Individual Code Chart
• Grade 1 Large Letter Cards
• Grade 1 Listening A-New-Nation-American-Independence.zip
• Grade 1 Listening Animals-and-Habitats.zip
• Grade 1 Listening Astronomy.zip
• Grade 1 Listening Different-Lands-Similar-Stories.zip
• Grade 1 Listening Early-American-Civilizations.zip
• Grade 1 Listening Early-World-Civilizations.zip
• Grade 1 Listening Fables-and-Stories.zip
• Grade 1 Listening Fairy-Tales.zip
• Grade 1 Listening Frontier-Explorers.zip
• Grade 1 Listening The-History-of-the-Earth.zip
• Grade 1 Listening The-Human-Body.zip
• Grade 1 Spelling Cards
• Grade 1 Vowels Code Flip book
• Grade 1 Unit 1 Big Book, Reader, Teacher Guide, Workbook
• Grade 1 Unit 2 Big Book, Reader, Teacher Guide, Workbook
• Grade 1 Unit 3 Big Book, Reader, Teacher Guide, Workbook
• Grade 1 Unit 4 Reader, Teacher Guide, Workbook
• Grade 1 Unit 5 Reader, Teacher Guide, Workbook
• Grade 1 Unit 6 Reader, Teacher Guide, Workbook
• Grade 1 Unit 7 Reader, Teacher Guide, Workbook

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