[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the Rocky Mountains. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

Travel back in history and see the first men on the moon. See photos of the crew, the launch, the landing and more.

Where is our Solar System? How far away is the sun? What makes up the sun? Find out all you want to know about our solar system. This is a comprehensive on-line site about space and astronomy. Check out all of the excitement!

[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction piece includes information about the world's water shortage. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...

Given a teacher demonstration and various learning stations, the young scholars learn that air is a real substance which occupies space, exerts pressure, and has weight.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage describes the time period when dinosaurs were still living on earth and describes the event that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.This passage is a stand-alone curricular...

This site offers a short history of the evolution of the space program and man's quest for more revealing and detailed pictures of the earth.

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Find lesson plans, worksheets, photo galleries, and related links for teaching about the weather systems of planets in our solar system.

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[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the causes and effects of the decreasing rain forest. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

Use the sun's energy to cook an egg? Design, build and test a solar oven. Activity gives a procedure to build oven as well as questions to answer. Questions can be saved and graded by instructor.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage talks about weather indications of global warming. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares facts about planets in the solar system. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...

Excellent resource for "paper-plate" activities that help simplify various astronomy topics. Learn how to build a "Moon Finder" and "Planet Pointer," and create a paper-plate model that explains the Transit of Venus.