Social studies
The Great Depression and the New Deal: Alphabet Agencies
Students read about the Great Depression, match six New Deal programs to what they did, and write a newspaper headline for one program.
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Science
The Greenhouse Effect: How Heat Is Trapped
Students read a short factual passage on the greenhouse effect, put the steps in order, match gases to their sources, and do a percent-increase and temperature-conversion calculation.
English language arts
The Missing Trophy: Clues, Red Herrings and Inferences
Students read an original school mystery, record the clues, rule out suspects, and practice drawing supported inferences.
Science
The Nervous System and the Reflex Arc
Students read about neurons and reflexes, match nervous system parts to their jobs, put the steps of a reflex arc in order and sort actions into reflex or voluntary.
Science
The Rock Cycle: Follow a Boulder’s Journey
Students read about the three rock types, match rock-cycle processes to their descriptions, sort common rocks and trace a granite boulder through the cycle.
Social studies
Three Colonial Regions: Land, Work and People
Students read about New England, the Middle Colonies and the Southern Colonies, fill in a comparison chart, and match key vocabulary.
Career & technical ed.
Three Views of a Block Stack: Front, Right and Top
Students read number grids that show how many cubes are stacked in each spot, then work out the front view, the right-side view and the total cubes for three objects.
Communications & media
Tight Headlines, Smart Captions and Copyediting
Students choose and write headlines, write captions from photo descriptions, and fix errors in sample sentences as a copy editor would.
Science
Two Pathways: Following Food and Air Through the Body
Students read about the digestive and respiratory pathways, match digestive organs to jobs, put the path of air in order and explain how digestion and circulation cooperate.
Arts
Typography Vocabulary: Serif, Leading, Kerning and More
Students learn typography vocabulary with a word bank, sort type styles by category, and calculate type sizes and line spacing in points.
Arts
Value and Shading: From Light to Dark
Students build a seven-step value scale, shade a sphere and a cube with a stated light source, and answer questions on how artists use value to show form.
Mathematics
Volume of Prisms, Cylinders, Cones and Spheres
Students sort the volume formulas and then compute volumes of prisms, cylinders, cones, spheres and a combined solid from measurements given in words.