Root Detectives

An interactive STEM challenge and read-aloud experience based on Leo Timmers' 'Elephant Island'. Students design and build floating island rafts to rescue Arnold and his friends.

The complete 8-day camp program containing the comprehensive Teacher Manual, printable Challenge Task Cards, and the daily Student Camp Journal.

An interactive vocabulary lesson on Earth and Space Science, featuring visual matching card decks and tactile fill-in-the-blank cloze activities covering rocks, weather, water cycles, and space.

A 2-day hands-on STEM engineering challenge where 3rd-grade students design, build, and test index card bridges to explore balanced and unbalanced forces, gravity, and load-bearing structures.

An engaging lesson on insect collective nouns and terminology, featuring a word search, crossword, and hands-on matching and writing activities exploring how bugs gather in groups.

A comprehensive safety and preparation kit for students and teachers participating in a neighborhood trash pick-up community service project. It includes safety slides, a student contract and checklist, and a detailed teacher instruction guide.

A high-engagement, print-ready scavenger hunt and review activity where students track down canine trait clues. Designed for easy delivery by a substitute teacher, it includes a step-by-step facilitation script, task cards, a student investigation log, an answer key, and creative early-finisher extensions.

A highly visual and tactile introduction to polymer chains, monomers, and everyday applications. Students explore how small repeating units form strong, flexible, and stretchy properties through hands-on modeling and scaffolded writing.

A comprehensive learning suite focused on identifying chemical reactions through visual clues, contrasting physical and chemical changes, and sorting real-world household examples. Includes a complete anchor chart, student fill-in chart, pocket resources, and a hands-on sorting kit.

A hands-on STEM challenge based on The Wizard of Oz where students design and build a balloon-powered rescue vehicle to save Dorothy and her friends from the sleeping effects of the Poppy Field. This lesson guides students through the complete engineering design process, combining physical science concepts with literary connections.

A weather and climate science unit featuring a complete class set of ready-to-print Bingo cards and a comprehensive teacher calling and tracking guide.

A high-impact science investigation unit starting with visual anchor charts and student planning templates to master the scientific method and variable identification in grades 3-5.

A differentiated reading comprehension unit focusing on the fascinating adaptations, anatomy, and intelligence of octopuses. Students read level-adjusted passages, analyze text-feature diagrams, and practice finding direct text evidence and summarizing main ideas.

A student-led research project where students choose a science question, evaluate reliable sources, gather evidence, and draft a 3-4 paragraph explanation. Includes moderate visual scaffolding and structured checklists to guide independent inquiry and writing.

A hands-on science lesson for third graders using riddles to explore ecosystems, animal adaptations, weather, and states of matter. Students solve clues, match concepts, and author their own scientific riddles.

A biology and taxonomy sorting system designed for older kids (Grades 3-5). Students analyze evolutionary adaptations, label critical anatomical features, and categorize specimens by their taxonomic classes, habitats, and ecological functions.

A collaborative, hands-on 3rd-grade STEM challenge where student engineering teams design, build, and test a model storm shelter that can survive wind and water hazards. Students apply weather hazard standards while experiencing the complete engineering design process over a multi-day timeline.

An engaging, hands-on physics and engineering lesson where students design, build, and test protective landing craft for fragile payloads (eggs), exploring forces, deceleration, and structural integrity.

A reading comprehension lesson for 2nd and 3rd-grade students based on the spectacular meteor explosion over New England. Features engaging news-style reading, vocabulary challenges, comprehension questions, and a creative activity.

A lesson focused on understanding the primary threats to our freshwater supply, featuring an engaging, student-friendly explorer article on pollution, home water waste, droughts, and growing demand.

An early elementary science lesson about air pressure featuring three hands-on experiments: Balloon in a Bottle, Egg in a Bottle, and the Water Glass Trick. Students make predictions and record observations using a highly visual cut-and-paste workbook.

An engaging lesson on animal adaptations featuring a visual nonfiction reading passage and text feature hunt. Students learn about the Thorny Devil and Polar Bear, analyze geographic maps, look up key terms in a glossary, and answer deep comprehension questions.

A hands-on, highly visual lesson where students explore artificial selection by roleplaying as breeders and farmers. Students analyze traits in dogs, crops, and livestock using scaffolded organizers, visual task cards, and matching tasks.

In this fifth and final lesson of the Spine Squad unit, students explore fish, focusing on gills, fins, scales, and underwater survival, with a final cumulative review of the five vertebrate groups.