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Scholastic: Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site features the Coretta Scott King award-winning book Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe. You will find a brief description of the book, a booklist, and a teaching plan.
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Scholastic: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

For Students 3rd - 5th
Have you ever read the Newbery award book Number the Stars by Lois Lowry? This site provides discussion questions, a writing prompt, an extension activity, and more.
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Scholastic: A Year Down Yonder

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This resource features a lesson plan for teaching the book A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck. This resource includes links to an author biography and interview.
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Scholastic: Summer of the Swans

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Come and learn more about the book Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars. This site provides a brief description, discussion guide, extension activity and more.
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Scholastic: Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

For Teachers 4th - 8th
This site has a description for the book "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg. It also features a vocabulary builder, a discussion guide, and more.
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Scholastic: Listen and Read

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Choose to read and/or listen to 15 different books on members of the community, animals, and the President. Review vocabulary at the end of each book.
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Scholastic Internet Field Trip: Calendar Math Activities

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This website offers plenty of links for activities around the topic of calendar math using estimation, measurement, and computations.
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Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Scientific Inquiry: Investigations to Collect Data

For Students 3rd - 8th
Sing along to a karaoke song about collecting data through observation and measurement, review related vocabulary definitions, and take a quiz to test your knowledge.
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Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Animals: Animal Cells

For Students 4th - 6th
A slideshow and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of animal cells.
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Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: The Ocean Floor

For Students 3rd - 5th
A slideshow and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of the ocean floor.
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Scholastic: Masterpiece Lesson Faith Ringgold

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This resource features a look at Faith Ringgold's work "Tar Beach." It provides information on how this author/artist created this story quilt. Find out how you can have your students develop their own autobiographical story quilt.
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Scholastic: Listen and Read: Animals Move

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Jump like a frog, flap your arms like a bird, and move like a fish - while learning words like swim, jump, and caterpillar - in this energizing read-aloud.
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Scholastic: Listen and Read: Veterinarian

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Listen to and read about veterinarians and the roles they fulfill in our communities.
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Scholastic: Grolier: Thomas Jefferson

For Students 3rd - 8th
A thorough biography of one of the founding fathers of America, Thomas Jefferson.
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Article
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Scholastic News: Kids Who Fought for Change

For Students 4th - 9th
Read a first-hand account of a child of the civil rights movement, and learn about the struggles of fighting for change.
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Article
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Scholastic News: Knitting for a Cause

For Students 9th - 10th
In response to cold weather, volunteers in India use a traditional craft, knitting, to make enormous garments for elephants in India.
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Scholastic: Science Explorations: Uncover Lizards and Snakes

For Students 3rd - 8th
An exploration of squamates, or scaled reptiles. Take notes about lizards and snakes using the pdf "Squamate Chart" while viewing a slideshow, investigate the squamate anatomy and how squamates differ from other animals, such as insects...
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Scholastic: Mythic Creatures

For Students 3rd - 5th
A fun and exciting way to learn about mythic creatures. Complete this web find to discover all about mythic creatures such as the unicorn and mermaid.
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Article
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Scholastic Magazine: The Changing Face of Congress

For Students 3rd - 8th
The Congress taking their chairs in January 2017 is the most diversified it has ever been.
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Article
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Scholastic: A White House Garden Harvest

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Michelle Obama started a garden on the grounds of the White House in 2009. This article features her invitation to children to join her while to conduct her final harvest since they will be leaving the White House during the winter of 2016.
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Scholastic: Lesson Plans: The Star Spangled Banner

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students become familiar with "The Star-Spangled Banner" and discuss what the United States flag means to them.
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Article
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Scholastic News: Enter the Tomb!

For Students 3rd - 8th
The Serapeum of Saqqara tomb is an ancient burial site in Egypt. Read about the rediscovery of this important place in the 1850's and the treasures it holds.
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Scholastic: Study Jams! Math: Probability: Combinations

For Students 6th - 8th
An interactive presentation, followed by a quiz, on how to determine the number of possible combinations of items from two and three categories.
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Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Our Solar System: The Universe

For Students 3rd - 5th
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on the Universe and what it is made up of.