1st Picture Books Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me Eric Carle (Griffith) Jimmy Zangwow's Out of this World Moonpie Adventure (Griffith)
Nonfiction Books
I Wonder Why Stars Sparkle (Griffith)
The Moon Book Gail Gibbons (Griffith)
The Mystery of Magnets (Griffith)
Forces (Griffith)
What Makes a Magnet? (Griffith)
Magnets (Griffith)
Wheels (Griffith)
What is Matter? (Griffith)
Water as a Liquid (Griffith)
Water as a Solid (Griffith)
Water as a Gas (Griffith)
Solid, Liquid, or Gas (Griffith)
Series
Rookie Readers
2nd
Stars by Jennifer Dussling
How Many Stars in the Sky? by Lenny Hort
Now I Know Stars by Roy Wandelmaier
What Makes Day and Night by Franklyn Branley
The Moon by Karen Edwards
Watching the Night Sky by Natalie Lunis & Nancy White
The Moon Seems to Change by Franklyn Branley
Text Book
Harcourt Science
Technology
Brain Pop, Jr. (K-3) Videos:
1. Earth
2. The Moon
3. Solar System
Activities
Moon Phases Flip Book
Write About It! (students write about their favorite phase of the moon)
Guest Speaker Mr. Fatuzzo (explains how the moon appears to be changing but it really is only covered by a shadow)
Globe & flashlight activity
3rd text book
4th
5th Picture Books Sounds All Sound by Wendy Pfeffer Discovering Science: Sound by Rebecca Hunter Dolphin’s First Day by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld (sound) Sound by Discovery Channel School Science Magic School Bus: In the Haunted Museum by Linda Beech (sound) Pass the Energy, Please! by Barbara Shaw McKinney Who Eats What? Food Chains and Food Webs by Patricia Lauber White Owl, Barn Owl by Nicola Davies (life) The Remarkable Farkle McBride by John Lithgow (sound) Moon Rope by Lois Ehlert (Earth and space) Common Ground: The Water, Earth, and Air We Share by Molly Bang (life) Michael Recycle by Ellie Bethel Scrambled Eggs Super! By Dr. Suess (life) Owl at Home by Arnold Lobel (life)
Novels The Clue of the Screeching Owl by Franklin W. Dixon (life) Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (life) Poppy & Rye by Avi (life) There’s an Owl in the Shower by Jean Craighead George (life) Child of the Owl by Laurence Yep (life) I heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven (life) Top Secret by John Reynolds Gardiner (photosynthesis) Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat (life) The Case of the Monkeys That Fell From the Trees and other Mysteries in Tropical Nature by Susan E. Quinlan (life)
6th
Video/United Streaming/Etc.
Properties of Matter, Part 1 (20 minutes)
Properties of Matter, Part 2 Liquids, Solids, and Gases (17 minutes)
Living and Nonliving Things (12 minutes)
K
1st
Picture Books
Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me Eric Carle (Griffith)
Jimmy Zangwow's Out of this World Moonpie Adventure (Griffith)
Nonfiction Books
I Wonder Why Stars Sparkle (Griffith)
The Moon Book Gail Gibbons (Griffith)
The Mystery of Magnets (Griffith)
Forces (Griffith)
What Makes a Magnet? (Griffith)
Magnets (Griffith)
Wheels (Griffith)
What is Matter? (Griffith)
Water as a Liquid (Griffith)
Water as a Solid (Griffith)
Water as a Gas (Griffith)
Solid, Liquid, or Gas (Griffith)
Series
Rookie Readers
2nd
Stars by Jennifer Dussling
How Many Stars in the Sky? by Lenny Hort
Now I Know Stars by Roy Wandelmaier
What Makes Day and Night by Franklyn Branley
The Moon by Karen Edwards
Watching the Night Sky by Natalie Lunis & Nancy White
The Moon Seems to Change by Franklyn Branley
Text Book
Harcourt Science
Technology
Brain Pop, Jr. (K-3) Videos:
1. Earth
2. The Moon
3. Solar System
Activities
Moon Phases Flip Book
Write About It! (students write about their favorite phase of the moon)
Guest Speaker Mr. Fatuzzo (explains how the moon appears to be changing but it really is only covered by a shadow)
Globe & flashlight activity
3rd text book
4th
5th
Picture Books
Sounds All Sound by Wendy Pfeffer
Discovering Science: Sound by Rebecca Hunter
Dolphin’s First Day by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld (sound)
Sound by Discovery Channel School Science
Magic School Bus: In the Haunted Museum by Linda Beech (sound)
Pass the Energy, Please! by Barbara Shaw McKinney
Who Eats What? Food Chains and Food Webs by Patricia Lauber
White Owl, Barn Owl by Nicola Davies (life)
The Remarkable Farkle McBride by John Lithgow (sound)
Moon Rope by Lois Ehlert (Earth and space)
Common Ground: The Water, Earth, and Air We Share by Molly Bang (life)
Michael Recycle by Ellie Bethel
Scrambled Eggs Super! By Dr. Suess (life)
Owl at Home by Arnold Lobel (life)
Novels
The Clue of the Screeching Owl by Franklin W. Dixon (life)
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (life)
Poppy & Rye by Avi (life)
There’s an Owl in the Shower by Jean Craighead George (life)
Child of the Owl by Laurence Yep (life)
I heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven (life)
Top Secret by John Reynolds Gardiner (photosynthesis)
Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat (life)
The Case of the Monkeys That Fell From the Trees and other Mysteries in Tropical
Nature by Susan E. Quinlan (life)
6th
Video/United Streaming/Etc.
Properties of Matter, Part 1 (20 minutes)
Properties of Matter, Part 2 Liquids, Solids, and Gases (17 minutes)
Living and Nonliving Things (12 minutes)
Vocab List