Big Idea: Body Systems is an expository nonfiction text organized in three chapters that covers moving the body (such as the nervous system and skeletal and muscular systems), what the body needs (such as the respiratory and circulatory systems), and healthy choices (such as eating healthy food and keeping active). Each two-page spread is linked to a big idea, such as “The nervous system makes the other body systems do their jobs.” Each chapter concludes with two activities written in procedural language, and a final activity challenges students to “think like a historian.”

Each two-page spread follows a predictable format: Big Idea, section heading, labeled photographs, comprehension questions. The inside front cover offers a handy list of key terms in each chapter. A table of contents, glossary and index are provided.

Sentences are short and simple in structure. Everyday language is used to explain key concepts. Content words are defined in words and captioned photographs.

 This title is from the Big Idea series. Explore the big ideas of Science and Social Studies and promote simultaneous language development and content acquisition.

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Invoice Title: Big Idea: Body Systems

ISBN-10: 1770587306

ISBN-13: 9781770587304

Big Idea: Chemistry is an expository nonfiction text organized in three chapters covering states of matter, changes of state, and changing matter. Each two-page spread is linked to a big idea, such as “Solids, liquids, and gases mix together in different ways.” Each chapter concludes with an experiment written in procedural language, and a final experiment challenges students to “think like a chemist.”

Each two-page spread follows a predictable format: Big Idea, section heading, labeled photographs, comprehension questions. The inside front cover offers a handy list of key terms in each chapter. A table of contents, glossary and index are provided.

Sentences are short and simple in structure. Everyday language is used to explain science concepts. Content words are defined in words, photographs, and diagrams.

This title is from the Big Idea series. Explore the big ideas of Science and Social Studies and promote simultaneous language development and content acquisition.

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Invoice Title: Big Idea: Chemistry

ISBN-10: 1770587314

ISBN-13: 9781770587311

Big Idea: Diversity of Life is an expository nonfiction text organized in three chapters covering biodiversity (such as ecosystems and living and non-living things), grouping species (such as single-celled and multi-celled organisms and classifying plants), and humans and biodiversity (such as invasive species and protecting biodiversity). Each two-page spread is linked to a big idea, such as “Species that are not native to an area can harm biodiversity in the area.” Each chapter concludes with two activities written in procedural language, and a final activity challenges students to “think like a historian.”

Each two-page spread follows a predictable format: Big Idea, section heading, labeled photographs, comprehension questions. The inside front cover offers a handy list of key terms in each chapter. A table of contents, glossary and index are provided.

Sentences are short and simple in structure. Everyday language is used to explain key concepts. Content words are defined in words and captioned photographs.

This title is from the Big Idea series. Explore the big ideas of Science and Social Studies and promote simultaneous language development and content acquisition.

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Invoice Title: Big Idea: Diversity of Life

ISBN-10: 1770587357

ISBN-13: 9781770587359

Big Idea: Electricity is an expository nonfiction text organized in three chapters covering electrical energy (such as changing current electricity, simple currents and conductors and insulators), changing energy (such as renewable and non-renewable sources of energy), and electricity in our lives (such as the problems with electricity around the world and ways to use less electricity). Each two-page spread is linked to a big idea, such as “Electricity does not flow well through all materials.” Each chapter concludes with two activities written in procedural language, and a final activity challenges students to “think like a historian.”

Each two-page spread follows a predictable format: Big Idea, section heading, labeled photographs, comprehension questions. The inside front cover offers a handy list of key terms in each chapter. A table of contents, glossary and index are provided.

Sentences are short and simple in structure. Everyday language is used to explain key concepts. Content words are defined in words and captioned photographs.

This title is from the Big Idea series. Explore the big ideas of Science and Social Studies and promote simultaneous language development and content acquisition.

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Invoice Title: Big Idea: Electricity

ISBN-10: 1770587349

ISBN-13: 9781770587342

Big Idea: Flight is an expository nonfiction text organized in three chapters covering air (such as the properties of air and using air to fly), forces of flight (such as weight and lift and drag and thrust), and people and flight (such as the ways flight has changed how people travel and flight and our world). Each two-page spread is linked to a big idea, such as “Air changes at different heights above Earth.” Each chapter concludes with two activities written in procedural language, and a final activity challenges students to “think like a historian.”

Each two-page spread follows a predictable format: Big Idea, section heading, labeled photographs, comprehension questions. The inside front cover offers a handy list of key terms in each chapter. A table of contents, glossary and index are provided.

Sentences are short and simple in structure. Everyday language is used to explain key concepts. Content words are defined in words and captioned photographs.

This title is from the Big Idea series. Explore the big ideas of Science and Social Studies and promote simultaneous language development and content acquisition.

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Invoice Title: Big Idea: Flight

ISBN-10: 1770587365

ISBN-13: 9781770587366

Big Idea: Forces and Structures is an expository text organized in three chapters covering structures, forces, and building structures.  Each two-page spread is linked to a big idea, such as “Forces push and pull on all structures.”  Each chapter concludes with an experiment written in procedural language, and a final experiment challenges students to “think like an engineer.”

Each two-page spread follows a predictable format: Big Idea, section heading, labeled photographs, comprehension questions.  The inside front cover offers a handy list of key terms in each chapter.  A contents, glossary, and index are provided.

Sentences are short and simple in structure.  Everyday language is used to explain science concepts.  Content words are defined in words, photographs, and diagrams. 

This title is from the Big Idea series.  Explore the big ideas of Science and Social Studies and promote simultaneous language development and content acquisition.

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Invoice Title: Big Idea: Forces and Structures

ISBN-10: 1770588221

ISBN-13: 9781770588226

Big Idea: Habitats and Communities is an expository nonfiction text organized in three chapters covering habitats (such as plant and animal needs, communities and adaptations), events that changed people (such as the Japanese internment camps and the passing of the Chapter of Rights and Freedoms), and natural and human-made disasters (such as the SARS epidemic and the collapse of the cod fisheries). Each two-page spread is linked to a big idea, such as “Plants and animals need these things: air, sunlight, food, water, and space.” Each chapter concludes with two activities written in procedural language, and a final activity challenges students to “think like a historian.” 

Each two-page spread follows a predictable format: Big Idea, section heading, labeled photographs, comprehension questions. The inside front cover offers a handy list of key terms in each chapter. A table of contents, glossary and index are provided.

Sentences are short and simple in structure. Everyday language is used to explain key concepts. Content words are defined in words and captioned photographs.

This title is from the Big Idea series. Explore the big ideas of Science and Social Studies and promote simultaneous language development and content acquisition.

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Invoice Title: Big Idea: Habitats and Communities

ISBN-10: 1770587284

ISBN-13: 9781770587281

Big Idea: Light and Sound is an expository nonfiction text organized in three chapters covering light (emitting or reflecting light and lights and minerals), sound (such as sound vibrations and sound and materials), and using light and sound (such as problems with light and sound). Each two-page spread is linked to a big idea, such as “There are natural sources of light and artificial sources of light.” Each chapter concludes with two activities written in procedural language, and a final activity challenges students to “think like a historian.”

Each two-page spread follows a predictable format: Big Idea, section heading, labeled photographs, comprehension questions. The inside front cover offers a handy list of key terms in each chapter. A table of contents, glossary and index are provided.

Sentences are short and simple in structure. Everyday language is used to explain key concepts. Content words are defined in words and captioned photographs.

This title is from the Big Idea series. Explore the big ideas of Science and Social Studies and promote simultaneous language development and content acquisition.

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Invoice Title: Big Idea: Light and Sound

ISBN-10: 1770587276

ISBN-13: 9781770587274

Big Idea: Our Healthy World is an expository nonfiction text organized in three chapters that cover meeting our basic needs (such using natural resources to make our lives more comfortable and renewable and nonrenewable resources), using natural resources (such as natural resources for products and energy), and conserving natural resources (such as making less garbage and protecting natural resources). Each two-page spread is linked to a big idea, such as “We can take care of Earth’s natural resources.” Each chapter concludes with two activities written in procedural language, and a final activity challenges students to “think like a historian.”

Each two-page spread follows a predictable format: Big Idea, section heading, labeled photographs, comprehension questions. The inside front cover offers a handy list of key terms in each chapter. A table of contents, glossary and index are provided.

Sentences are short and simple in structure. Everyday language is used to explain key concepts. Content words are defined in words and captioned photographs.

This title is from the Big Idea series. Explore the big ideas of Science and Social Studies and promote simultaneous language development and content acquisition.

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Invoice Title: Big Idea: Our Healthy World

ISBN-10: 1770587322

ISBN-13: 9781770587328

Big Idea: Rocks and Minerals is an expository nonfiction text organized in three chapters covering rocks (such as igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks), minerals (such as looking at and testing minerals), and mining rocks and minerals (such as types of mines and how mining changes lives). Each two-page spread is linked to a big idea, such as “Hot liquid rock can change into igneous rock.” Each chapter concludes with two activities written in procedural language, and a final activity challenges students to “think like a historian.”

Each two-page spread follows a predictable format: Big Idea, section heading, labeled photographs, comprehension questions. The inside front cover offers a handy list of key terms in each chapter. A table of contents, glossary and index are provided.

Sentences are short and simple in structure. Everyday language is used to explain key concepts. Content words are defined in words and captioned photographs.

This title is from the Big Idea series. Explore the big ideas of Science and Social Studies and promote simultaneous language development and content acquisition.

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Invoice Title: Big Idea: Rocks and Minerals

ISBN-10: 1770587292

ISBN-13: 9781770587298

Big Idea: Simple Machines is an expository nonfiction text organized in three chapters covering the lever family (such as levers and wheels), the inclined plane family (inclined planes and screws and wedges), and pulleys and gears. Each two-page spread is linked to a big idea, such as “A lever and fulcrum help a person move a load using less force.” Each chapter concludes with two activities written in procedural language, and a final activity challenges students to “think like a historian.”

Each two-page spread follows a predictable format: Big Idea, section heading, labeled photographs, comprehension questions. The inside front cover offers a handy list of key terms in each chapter. A table of contents, glossary and index are provided.

Sentences are short and simple in structure. Everyday language is used to explain key concepts. Content words are defined in words and captioned photographs.

This title is from the Big Idea series. Explore the big ideas of Science and Social Studies and promote simultaneous language development and content acquisition.

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Invoice Title: Big Idea: Simple Machines

ISBN-10: 1770587373

ISBN-13: 9781770587373

Big Idea: The Sky and Beyond is an expository nonfiction text organized in three chapters covering the sun, the moon and Earth (such as day and night, the phases of the moon and eclipses), our solar system (such as inner and outer planets and other objects in space), and exploring space (such as living in outer space and Canada and space exploration). Each two-page spread is linked to a big idea, such as “Comets, asteroids, meteoroids, and stars move through space.” Each chapter concludes with two activities written in procedural language, and a final activity challenges students to “think like a historian.”

Each two-page spread follows a predictable format: Big Idea, section heading, labeled photographs, comprehension questions. The inside front cover offers a handy list of key terms in each chapter. A table of contents, glossary and index are provided.

Sentences are short and simple in structure. Everyday language is used to explain key concepts. Content words are defined in words and captioned photographs.

This title is from the Big Idea series. Explore the big ideas of Science and Social Studies and promote simultaneous language development and content acquisition.

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Invoice Title: Big Idea: The Sky and Beyond

ISBN-10: 1770587330

ISBN-13: 9781770587335

Big Idea: Weather is an expository nonfiction text organized in three chapters covering weather in the air (such as air pressure and the water cycle), weather patterns (such as the seasons and climate and measuring weather), and weather and our world (such as weather and living and non-living things and extreme weather). Each two-page spread is linked to a big idea, such as “Weather and climate are different around the world.” Each chapter concludes with two activities written in procedural language, and a final activity challenges students to “think like a historian.”

Each two-page spread follows a predictable format: Big Idea, section heading, labeled photographs, comprehension questions. The inside front cover offers a handy list of key terms in each chapter. A table of contents, glossary and index are provided.

Sentences are short and simple in structure. Everyday language is used to explain key concepts. Content words are defined in words and captioned photographs.

This title is from the Big Idea series. Explore the big ideas of Science and Social Studies and promote simultaneous language development and content acquisition.

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Invoice Title: Big Idea: Weather

ISBN-10: 1770587381

ISBN-13: 9781770587380