The Birth of the United States
1754 to 1820s
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
Following a student helping set up a museum display, this title chronicles the history of the United States, from the causes of the American Revolution to the birth of the new nation.
Save the Planet: Helping Endangered Animals
by Rebecca E. Hirsch, Ph. D.
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
Save the Planet: Helping Endangered Animals applies the NCTE/IRA Standards to science and social studies content. Each book sends the reader on a fact-finding mission, posing an initial challenge and concluding with questions and answers. Through engaging, interactive scenarios, learners can experiment with text prediction, purpose-driven research, and creative problem solving all critical thinking skills while learning about ways to care for our planet.
Water Power
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
Following a student conducting research, the reader learns about water power as an energy source. This exciting title includes how humans used water power in the past, how we use energy from water power today, and how we may use it in the future.
Science Lab: Properties of Matter
by Rebecca E. Hirsch, Ph. D.
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
Using the narrative voice of a student attending a science camp, this book delves into the properties of matter while engaging the readers in the process of scientific inquiry.
Geothermal Power
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
The reader follows a student's journal as the student learns about geothermal power as an energy source. This engaging title includes how humans used geothermal power in the past, how we use geothermal energy today, and how we may use it in the future.
Solar Power
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
The reader follows a student's journal as the student learns about the history of solar power, how solar power is used as an energy source today, and the exciting future of solar energy.
The Great Depression and World War II
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
Follows the history of the United States from the Great Depression through World War II. This book, which follows a student researcher investigating primary sources, will be an excellent selection for readers who want to know more about this challenging period in US history.
Science Lab: Technological Design
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
This book explains the concept of technological design. The reader is encouraged to make predictions, perform purpose-driven research, and creatively solve problems presented about technological design.
Save the Planet: Growing Your Own Garden
by Rebecca E. Hirsch, Ph. D.
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
Save the Planet: Growing your own Garden, applies the NCTE/IRA Standards to science and social studies content. Each book sends the reader on a fact-finding mission, posing an initial challenge and concluding with questions and answers. Through engaging, interactive scenarios, learners can experiment with text prediction, purpose-driven research, and creative problem solving all critical thinking skills while learning about ways to care for our planet.
Save the Planet: Compost It
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
Save the Planet: Compost it applies the NCTE/IRA Standards to science and social studies content. Each book sends the reader on a fact-finding mission, posing an initial challenge and concluding with questions and answers. Through engaging, interactive scenarios, learners can experiment with text prediction, purpose-driven research, and creative problem solving all critical thinking skills while learning about ways to care for our planet.
Wind Power
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
The reader follows a student's journal as the student interviews experts about wind power as an energy source. This engaging book covers wind power's history, how we use wind power today, and how we may use the wind as an energy source in the future.
Nuclear Power
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
Following a student conducting research, the reader learns about nuclear power as an energy source. This exciting title covers the history of nuclear power, its pros and cons, how we use nuclear power today, and how we may use it in the future.
The Development of U.S. Industry
1870 to 1900
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
Chronicles the development of industry in the United States. Presented as the diary of a student who visits historic sites on a road trip, this book will be an excellent selection for readers who want to know more about the birth and growth of industry in the United States.
The Great Depression and World War II
1929 to 1945
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
Follows the history of the United States from the Great Depression through World War II. This book, which follows a student researcher investigating primary sources, will be an excellent selection for readers who want to know more about this challenging period in US history.
US Growth and Change in the 19th Century
1801 to 1861
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
Focuses on the growth and change of the United States in the 19th Century. This book, which follows a student learning about primary documents and artifacts on a field trip, will be an excellent selection for readers who want to know more about this important period in US history.
Save the Planet: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
Save the Planet: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle applies the NCTE/IRA Standards to science and social studies content. Each book sends the reader on a fact-finding mission, posing an initial challenge and concluding with questions and answers. Through engaging, interactive scenarios, learners can experiment with text prediction, purpose-driven research, and creative problem solving-all critical thinking skills-while learning about ways to care for our planet.
America's Colonization and Settlement
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
Following a student visiting a living history museum, this engaging title takes readers on a journey in US history from 1585-1763, the period of North America's Colonization and settlement.
The Development of U.S. Industry
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
Chronicles the development of industry in the United States. Presented as the diary of a student who visits historic sites on a road trip, this book will be an excellent selection for readers who want to know more about the birth and growth of industry in the United States.
Save the Planet: Using Alternative Energies
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
Save the Planet: Using Alternative Energies applies the NCTE/IRA Standards to science and social studies content. Each book sends the reader on a fact-finding mission, posing an initial challenge and concluding with questions and answers. Through engaging, interactive scenarios, learners can experiment with text prediction, purpose-driven research, and creative problem solving all critical thinking skills while learning about ways to care for our planet.
Science Lab: Weather Patterns
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
Written in the narrative voice of a budding meteorologist, this book explains weather patterns. Readers begin to understand how the process of forming and answering questions is a key to investigation and scientific communication.
Science Lab: Motion and Forces
by Rebecca E. Hirsch, Ph. D.
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
The focus of the book is on motion and forces. The reader is encouraged to make predictions, perform purpose-driven research, and creatively solve problems presented about motion and forces.
Save the Planet: Protecting Our Natural Resources
by Rebecca E. Hirsch, Ph. D.
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
Save the Planet: Protecting our Natural Resources applies the NCTE/IRA Standards to science and social studies content. Each book sends the reader on a fact-finding mission, posing an initial challenge and concluding with questions and answers. Through engaging, interactive scenarios, learners can experiment with text prediction, purpose-driven research, and creative problem solving all critical thinking skills while learning about ways to care for our planet.
Natural Gas
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
Following a student conducting research, the reader learns about the history of natural gas, how we use it today, and how we may use natural gas in the future.
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
Following a student who is helping make a documentary film, this engaging title takes readers on a journey of US history from its beginnings to 1620, a period that the three worlds of Europe, North America, and Africa meet.
Oil and Coal
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
The reader follows a student's journal as the student learns about oil and coal as an energy source, including how we used oil and coal in the past, how we use it today, and how we may use oil and coal in the future.
Contemporary United States
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
Following a student working on a school project, this engaging title takes readers on a journey of contemporary US history using primary sources and artifacts.
Save the Planet: Local Farms and Sustainable Foods
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
Save the Planet:Local Farms and Sustainable Foods applies the NCTE/IRA Standards to science and social studies content. Each book sends the reader on a fact-finding mission, posing an initial challenge and concluding with questions and answers. Through engaging, interactive scenarios, learners can experiment with text prediction, purpose-driven research, and creative problem solving all critical thinking skill swhile learning about ways to care for our planet.
Science Lab: Gases
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
The focus of the book is on gases. The reader is encouraged to make predictions, perform purpose-driven research, and creatively solve problems presented about gases.
Science Lab: The Transfer of Energy
by Christine Zuchora-Walske
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
The focus of this book is on the transfer of energy. The reader is encouraged to make predictions, perform purpose-driven research, and creatively solve problems presented about the transfer of energy.
Science Lab: Soil
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
Written in the narrative voice of a student researching soil, this book explains the properties of soil. Readers begin to understand how the process of forming and answering questions is a key to investigation and scientific communication.
The United States Enters the 20th Century
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
Chronicles the history of the United States as it entered the 20th Century. This book, which follows a student who is helping set up a museum exhibit, will be an excellent selection for readers who want to know more about this important period in US history.
Postwar United States
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
This book uses the narrative voice of an historian to take readers on a journey in US history following the end of World War II through the cold war.
Save the Planet: Keeping Water Clean
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
Save the Planet: Keeping Water Clean applies the NCTE/IRA Standards to science and social studies content. Each book sends the reader on a fact-finding mission, posing an initial challenge and concluding with questions and answers. Through engaging, interactive scenarios, learners can experiment with text prediction, purpose-driven research, and creative problem solving all critical thinking skills while learning about ways to care for our planet.
Biofuels
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
Following a student interviewing experts about biofuels, this exciting title teaches readers about biofuels as an energy source. The book covers biofuels' history, how they are used today, and innovative ways we may use biofuels in the future.
The Birth of the United States
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
Following a student helping set up a museum display, this title chronicles the history of the United States, from the causes of the American Revolution to the birth of the new nation.
US Growth and Change in the 19th Century
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
Focuses on the growth and change of the United States in the 19th Century. This book, which follows a student learning about primary documents and artifacts on a field trip, will be an excellent selection for readers who want to know more about this important period in US history.
The US Civil War and Reconstruction
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
This book follows a student who is helping set up a museum exhibit about the Civil War. The student uses primary sources and artifacts to learn about the causes of the war, the hardships of the war, and how the war concluded.
Science Lab: The Life Cycles of Plants
by Rebecca E. Hirsch, Ph. D.
Part of the Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer series
Written in the narrative voice of an inquisitive student, this book explains the life cycles of plants. Readers begin to understand how the process of forming and answering questions is a key to investigation and scientific communication.
