http://www.scholastic.com Helping Children Around the World Read and Learn http://content.scholastic.com/browse/unitplan.jsp?id=339 Explore the world of dolphins with science and vocabulary lessons. Students will learn about dolphin biology and marine life through quick language arts activities. http://content.scholastic.com/browse/unitplan.jsp?id=336 Help build positive self-esteem by teaching students to look at their unique qualities and how they are physically and emotionally changing. http://content.scholastic.com/browse/unitplan.jsp?id=335 Students will research and assume roles as medical specialists through hands-on projects, research, reports, and presentations. Culminating activities will include working with a health specialist to dissect/observe cow eyes, sheep brains, pig lungs, pig heart, or various bones (including cow, rodent, and human bones). http://content.scholastic.com/browse/unitplan.jsp?id=334 Planetary environmental health is examined by investigating the causes and effects of over-consumption and pollution of our natural resources by humans and how to better care for our air, land and water so that human health and our planet benefits. http://content.scholastic.com/browse/unitplan.jsp?id=333 Young children need to learn how to eat healthy. Too many of today';s young children do not know what it means to eat healthy and nutritious foods. This unit teaches children about food groups and helps them identify nutritious foods. http://content.scholastic.com/browse/unitplan.jsp?id=331 These lessons and reproducibles provide teaching strategies to help students make all three levels of connections -- to their life experiences, to other texts, and to events and issues in the world around them. http://content.scholastic.com/browse/unitplan.jsp?id=330 Travel Pals: A Journey of Learning is a 9-month long project, which teaches students about U.S. geography and historical landmarks. Students make real-world connections to places and people around the U.S. by tracking the adventures of a class stuffed animal, or Travel Pal. The Internet, educational programming and digital cameras are used throughout this entire project. http://content.scholastic.com/browse/unitplan.jsp?id=329 In these engaging lessons, students develop ideas to improve their local community; take positions to actively influence community decision making and development; and consider one or more of these issues from local, national and international perspectives. http://content.scholastic.com/browse/unitplan.jsp?id=324 Take students on a reading and writing adventure through the pages of their favorite stories. With the Inkheart writing program, students will explore characters and plots that will help them in writing their own creative narrative. http://content.scholastic.com/browse/unitplan.jsp?id=323 This unit helps prepare students to look for and obtain jobs. They learn how to fill out an application, research corporations, work with money, and calculate different types of payment. They will also learn how teamwork is an important skill to learn when seeking a part-time job.