Let's Explore Life Science Grades 4-5, 10-Book Set

Teach fourth and fifth grade students life science and STEM topics with this 10-book set. These nonfiction books feature intriguing images, challenging diagrams, sidebars, a glossary, and an index to keep students engaged in reading and connect them back to the text. Students will learn important life science topics such as adaptation, plant reproduction, the nutrient cycle, cells and cell structure, DNA, and more. Each 32-page book includes an in-depth science activity that meets Next Generation Science Standards and helps students apply what they've learned to a real-world setting. Titles in this set include: Plant Reproduction; Producers and Consumers; Animal Senses; Adaptations; The Nutrient Cycle; Life and the Flow of Energy; Life and Non-Life in an Ecosystem; Digestion and Using Food; Cells; DNA. | Explore Life Science with this 10-book set for Grades 2-3. Readers will learn about adaptations, cells, DNA, and more! These titles include vibrant images paired with easy-to-read text to keep students engaged from cover to cover. | Multiple authors contributed to this product.
Wendy Conklin, M.A. Ed., is an award-winning author, editor, educational consultant, and teacher. She trains teachers in staff development workshops across the country, writes curriculum, and teaches diverse groups of children.

Since her kid years, Monika Davies has been imagining and writing up stories. (Her first stories featured temperamental unicorns and wayward wizards.) She is now the author of over 60 books for kids and a workshop facilitator for adult-sized writers. She has written books on an eclectic range of topics, from surprising things we eat to global citizenship to the hidden world of toilets! She also deeply believes everyone is a writer and is on a mission to inspire and encourage people of all ages to write down their stories.
Monika holds a BFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and is certified to lead writing workshops using the AWA (Amherst Artists & Writers) method. She lives on Vancouver Island with her family and two ridiculous cats.

Lisa Perlman Greathouse started her writing career as a journalist, working for The Associated Press for over a decade. There, she reported on hundreds of stories, from interviewing presidential candidates to covering plane crashes. From there, she joined a communications agency, where she launched a custom publishing division and developed award-winning magazines for major clients.
During her professional writing career, Lisa's deep commitment to public education launched an interest in writing children's books. Over the past 20 years, she has written dozens of titles for Teacher Created Materials, mostly nonfiction readers, with a focus on science and social studies. Among her favorites is a biography about President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Lisa is a staunch public education advocate who has run for her local school board. She has two adult children and lives in Southern California with her partner.