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Grades K–2

• The Middle East Region: Flags and Facts
• Introduction to Latitude and Longitude
• All K–2 Lesson Plans

• Alike and Different: The Middle East and the U.S.
• Contour Maps With DOGSTAILS
• Charting Countries of the World
• All 3–5 Lesson Plans

• Oil and Water in the Middle East Region
• Latitude, Longitude, and Mapmaking
• All 6–8 Lesson Plans

• Daily Life in the Middle East
• Estuaries: Finding the Balance
• Map Projections
• All 9–12 Lesson Plans

Grades K-2

• Sharks: Should They Be Afraid of Us?
• Echoes: What Animals Can Teach Scientists
• All K–2 Lesson Plans

• The Geography of Ascent: Exploring the Seven Summits
• The Active Earth: An Introduction to Natural Disasters
• Lighting up the Sea: Bioluminescent Organisms
• All 3–5 Lesson Plans

• Don’t Be Fooled by a Photograph
• Fast Food Around the World
• Sister Storms: Children of the Tropical Seas
• All 6–8 Lesson Plans

• Two Ancient Cities: Machu Picchu and Chichén Itzá
• The Aral Sea: What's Happening to Whom?
• All 9–12 Lesson Plans

Windows on Literacy

The companion site for our supplemental, nonfiction reading program for grades pre–K through three houses a wealth of resources to aid instruction. Download teaching notes, activity masters, assessment materials, and more.

Reading Expeditions

Discover a wealth of free, easy–to–use, online teaching resources, to accompany our nonfiction literacy program for grades three through eight. Take advantage of downloadable teaching notes, activity masters, and assessment materials: all correlated to curriculum standards.

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Windows on Literacy

The companion site for our supplemental, nonfiction reading program for grades pre–K through three houses a wealth of resources to aid instruction, including detailed correlations to curriculum standards.

Reading Expeditions

Discover a wealth of free, easy–to–use, online teaching resources, to accompany our nonfiction literacy program for grades three through eight. Take advantage of detailed correlations to curriculum standards.