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It's fact vs. opinion statements about interesting animals in this workbook. Kids will also think about how diagrams and images help clarify reading passages.

Text Detective: Weird Animals

Discover whether the color of text correlates with ease and speed of reading.

Does Text Color Affect Readability

Kids conduct a simple birdseed experiment to figure out what kinds of birds live nearby in this fun science activity.

Be a Birdseed Detective

This project examines if computer screen and text color affect retention and if people subconsciously prefer combinations of colors that help their retention.

Do Screen and Text Color Affect Retention?

This lesson will provide students with an opportunity to become more comfortable with identifying and defining academic vocabulary words in a nonfiction text about a chicken's life cycle to support comprehension.

Understanding Academic Vocabulary in a Nonfiction Text

This experiment explores whether reading text on a computer screen or type on paper leads to better retention of the information read.

Text on Screen vs. Type on Paper: Which is Easier to Remember?

This science project challenges high school students to study the linguistic evolution of text messaging.

Is Texting a New LNGWJ?

This experiment evaluates whether frequent texters have better finger dexterity compared to people that rarely use text messaging.

Does Texting Enhance Finger Dexterity?

There's been a periodic table of the elements robbery! Turn on your first grader's chemistry detective skills with this fun worksheet.

Master the Periodic Table of the Elements #5

Are you ready to be a detective for science? Then get out your magnifying glass and start studying fingerprints!

Fingerprint Analysis: A Family Case Study

Practice your detective skills with this fun worksheet! Have your child go around the house and see how many things from the list they can find.

Science Scavenger Hunt: Green

Hone your child's skills of observation and take a look at forensic science for an interesting afternoon of exploration and detective work!

Make a Handwriting Analysis!

Combine the science of physics with the fun of playing spy. Your young detective can make his own tiny looking glass. It's simple to make!

Make a Keyhole Spy Glass

Get a cool middle school chemistry project idea on how to determine whether a physical or a chemical change has taken place.

Be a Detective! Is it a Physical or a Chemical Change?

What makes your shadow dance around all day? Let's play detective and find out why that sneaky shadow never stays in one place for long.

Shadow Science: What Makes Shade Shift?

ELs will gain valuable practice learning about text features as they practice close reading and communication skills during a nonfiction picture walk. Use on its own or as a support for the Classifying Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan. 

Going on a Nonfiction Picture Walk

Provide students with an opportunity to closely examine the difference between a topic and main idea in a nonfiction text. Use as a stand-alone activity or a support for the Finding the Main Idea and Details in a Nonfiction Text lesson. 

Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

The narwhal is one unusual animal! Your child will learn about this horned sea creature through text and pictures.

With and Without a Picture: Narwhal

Test the effects of left and right handedness on writing speed and penmanship. Volunteers hand-copy the same paragraph of text, which samples look neater?

Handedness

We aren’t mind readers, but we can still figure out why the author wrote a text and what an author thinks about the topic! This lesson will teach your students the main purposes for writing.

Exploring Author's Purpose and Point of View

This short nonfiction text will provide students with an opportunity to become more comfortable with identifying and defining academic vocabulary words—and they'll have fun learning all about the life cycle of a chicken in the process!

A Chicken's Life Cycle

Use this science-themed resource with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view in a text about life cycles. Students will determine the author’s viewpoint on the subject as they establish their own points of view.

Point of View Practice: Life Cycle of a Frog

This hands-on lesson will get your students to investigate some mystery liquids, and they will have to use their observational skills to figure out what they are.

Liquid Detectives

In this fun forest animal inspired lesson plan, students will learn all about the forest using a nonfiction text before creating their very own forest animal page!

Who Lives in the Forest?

This experiment will evaluate how texting and talking on cell phones influence reaction time.

Texting Versus Talking: The Effects of Cell Phones on Reaction Time

Did you know Melitta Benz invented the coffee filter? Who is the father of text messaging? Kids learn about 3 cool inventors in this quick typing game. They will practice typing symbols, numbers, and capital letters as Floyd surfs a big wave! Have them play over and over again to beat their previous words per minute!

Typing Sentences: Speed

Warm up your scientific thinking with this colorful worksheet!

Heat Detectives: Tracking Heat Transfer

Take a look at forensic science with your child. She'll learn how to take a shoe impression, just like the detectives do!

Make Footwear Impressions - CSI Style!

Your students will love learning about nonfiction texts and the life cycle of a seed with a classic story, simple video, and a cut and paste activity!


Plant Life Cycle: Pumpkins!

Your fifth grader is the only hope for finding the missing information from these elements of the periodic table.

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