Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: What Is Work?
Have you ever been assigned a chapter to read for homework? After you finish you may think to yourself, "That was a lot of work!" You might be surprised to learn that in the scientific sense, reading a chapter is not work at all!In...
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Read Works: What Is the Solar System?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the solar system. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: What Is a Rock?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the elements that rocks are made of. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: What Is Heat?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about heat and how it is transferred from one object to another. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is Newton's Second Law?
Learn about the fact that forces cause acceleration in this article about Newton's Second Law. Includes examples and worked examples of problems.
PBS
Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Lakes
What is a lake? Discover the answer to this question when you explore this informative resource. This site provides information on how temperature and seasonal changes effects lakes, how lakes are formed, how lakes compare in numbers to...
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Read Works: Earth Science Earthquakes
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about earthquakes. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Are Energy and Work?
Here we learn what work and energy mean in physics and how they are related.
National Institutes of Health
Niehs: What Is Science and Who Are Scientists?
Learn what science is and what scientists do. Scientists are named for what they study; discover some of the more common branches of science.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution: Scientists at the Smithsonian
This is a collection of video interviews with twenty Smithsonian scientists who work in a scientific areas as vastly different as measuring the moon and figuring out what kinds of birds collide with aircraft. An interesting way to...
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Read Works: What's Bugging Everyone?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about bedbugs and how difficult they are to exterminate. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Electric and Magnetic Forces and the Modern Day Compass
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how a compass works using electromagnetic force. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Simple Physics of Soccer
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text explaining the physics behind soccer. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Blow, Wind, Blow
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about wind and what it can do. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Earth 2072
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about what school might be like in the future. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: What's Inside
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the brain and its basic parts. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: What Happens When It Rains
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about rain and why it is important. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Radiation: What You Need to Know
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text explaining the benefits and risks of radiation. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: What's in the Oceans? Amazing Ocean Animals
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about some of the animals found in the ocean including: sea turtles, sea urchins, starfish, sea horses, and clownfish. A question sheet is available to help students build skills...
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Read Works: What's New at the Zoo
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about some new animals to live at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in cause and effect.
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Read Works: Just What the Doctor Ordered
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about polio, its effects, and the development of a vaccine. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: What's Up in Space?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about outer space. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
University of California
University of California: Understanding Science: How Science Really Works
Need a tutorial about the nature and process of science? Here is your one stop for knowledge about what science is, how it works, science and society, and why science matters. This site expands on your scientific toolbox by allowing you...
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Read Works: Where Will I Live?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text that asks the reader to make predictions about how habitat changes affect endangered animals. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.