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Reading Comprehensions - Special Education High Interest Reading
     Life During the Paleozoic Era (Hi/Lo Grades 5-7)
     Life During the Mesozoic Era (Hi/Lo Grades 5-7)
     The Beginning of Life on Earth (Hi/Lo Grades 6-8)
     First Fauna Fossils (Hi/Lo Grades 7-9)

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Short Reading Comprehensions
Very Quick Readers
     Let's Split: Cell Division by Mitosis (Very Quick Reader; Grades 4-6 Readability)

Short Readers
     Algae, Our Oxygen Suppliers (Short Reader; Grades 3-6 Readability)
     Cells (Short Reader; Grades 4-6 Readability)
     Plant Cells: Cells With Walls (Short Reader; Grades 4-6 Readability)
     Animal Cells: Cells Without Walls (Short Reader; Grades 4-6 Readability)
     Life under a Microscope: Bacteria (Short Reader; Grades 4-6 Readability)
     Life Under a Microscope: Viruses (Short Reader; Grades 5-8 Readability)

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Reading Comprehensions
Biology
     Fungi - Friends or Foes? (Grades 3-6)
     Cells Are Us! (Grades 5-8)
     Different Kinds of Cells Make Up Our Bodies (Grades 5-8)
     Plant vs. Animal (Grades 5-8)
     Homeostasis or Why Dogs Pant (Grades 5-8)
     It's Alive! (Grades 5-8)
     Unicellular Organisms (Grades 5-8)
     Amoeba (Grades 5-8)
     Cell Division (Grades 5-8)
     Mitosis (Grades 5-8)
     Meiosis (Grades 6-8)
     DNA Structure (Grades 6-8)
     Genes (Grades 6-8)
     Heredity (Grades 6-8)
     How Microscopes Work (Grades 6-8)
     Respiration (Grades 6-8)
     Rosalind Franklin (Grades 7-9)

Animals
     Six Kingdoms (Grades 6-8)
     The Animal Kingdom (Grades 6-8)
     The Plant Kingdom (Grades 6-8)
     The Fungi Kingdom (Grades 6-8)
     The Protist Kingdom (Grades 6-8)
     The Monera Kingdom - Archaebacteria and Eubacteria (Grades 6-8)
     Five Kinds of Vertebrates (Grades 6-8)
     Vertebrate Classification: Phylum Chordata (Grades 6-8)
     Endotherm or Ectotherm? (Grades 6-8)
     Symmetry in Animals (Grades 6-8)

Biomes
     Biome 101 (Grades 4-8)
     Tundra (Grades 5-8)
     Earth's Biomes (Grades 6-8)
     The Everglades (Grades 6-8)
     Temperate Rain Forests (Grades 6-8)
     What Is a Taiga? (Grades 6-8)

Evolution
     How Do New Species Form? (Grades 6-8)
     Darwin's Theory of Evolution (Grades 9-12)
     Natural Selection (Grades 9-12)

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Read and Color

What Are Living Things?

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Plays:  Reader's Theater Scripts
     Life in the Amazing and Unique Everglades (Grades 3-5)

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Book Units
    Running Out of Time (Grades 5-8)
    Frankenstein (Grades 9-12)

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Life Science Theme Units
     Animals and Biomes
     Prehistoric Mammals
     Dinosaurs
     Endangered Species
     Plants

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