PBS
Pbs Kids Clubhouse Adventures: Read Good Books!: Creating Insects
KIDS Clubhouse Adventures kids read and discover more about insects. In this feature, kids create their own insects based on the knowledge they gathered in entomology books using craft supplies to represent body parts and other defining...
PBS
Frontline: Post Mortem: This Is Not Your Csi
A video [13:03] discussing post mortem investigations and how they differ from state to state due to a lack of federal regulations.
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Explain Scientific Concepts Based on Information in a Text
In this lesson, you will learn how to understand scientific concepts by examining specific information in nonfiction text. Login gives access to a slideshow and a student handout. [7:00]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Develop a Topic by Rereading and Grouping Related Information
In this lesson, you will learn how to develop a topic by rereading and grouping related information together in paragraphs. Login gives access to a slideshow as well. [6:14]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Interpret Information in Pictures and in Text
In this lesson, you will learn how to explain an event by looking at the images and rereading the text. Login gives access to a slideshow and a student handout. [6:46]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Plan a Written Response to an Informative Question by Rereading
In this lesson, you will learn how to form an answer to an informative question by rereading the text and formulating your response. [4:59]
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Annotating Across Disciplines
Students use microscopes to look at single-celled organisms. [3:48]
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Thinking and Communicating Like a Biologist
The goal of this seven-day unit is to look at the big ideas in science literacy. This video on how to think and communicate like a biologist is the first lesson in the unit. [7:23]
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Seymour Simon
Seymour Simon has written many science books for children. His work has been praised for explaining science in a way that is accurate, interesting, and accessible and has earned him a reputation as a trusted source of information for...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Sneed Collard
Sneed B. Collard III is the author of more than 30 children's books about science, nature, and the environment. With a background in biology, his book topics range from beaks to wings to cloud forests to animal dads. Collard encourages...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Vicki Cobb
Vicki Cobb has published over 85 books for grades K-8 that explore physics, chemistry and biology, biographies, geography, and the human body. Her new Science Play series targets kids 3-5 years old, who are already natural scientists...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Reading: Social Science How to Part 2
Watch Sal work through Part 2 of an SAT Reading: Social science passage.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Reading: Science How to Part 2
Watch Sal work through Part 2 of an SAT Reading: Science passage.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Reading: Science How to Part 1
Watch Sal work through Part 1 of an SAT Reading: Science passage.