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Identifies the characteristics of different types of writing through a look at the efforts of the student editors of "Wordswork" to meet Professor Plot's challenge to showcase four different types of writing in the magazine, including comparative, personal narrative, explanatory, and persuasive.

Introduces the four types of sentences: statements, questions, commands, and exclamations; explains how to distinguish a complete sentence from an incomplete one; and includes a word game for review.

Introduces students to concepts in geometry, covering solids, shapes, and attributes, and including real-life examples.

Uses real-life situations to explain the math concept of measurement to children, covering length, weight, temperature, and capacity, with a look at non-standard measurement, the U.S. Customary and Metric Systems, and measurement tools.

Presents an introduction to telling time for children, explaing how to measure time in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years.

Presents an introduction to graphing data, explaining how surveys, observations, amd experiments can be used to create diagrams that tell a story, from school lunch preferences, to following plant growth.

Jason, son of the King of Thessaly, sails on the Argo to the land of Colchis to capture the Golden Fleece.

Uses reenactments, dramatic readings, and interviews with historians to examine significant events in the history of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, discussing the actions of President Lyndon Johnson, the Tet Offensive, the anti-war movement, the "domino theory," and other topics.

Describes the historic ways of life of Native Americans of the Northwest, Great Plains, and woodlands.

Describes, compares, and contrasts cities, suburbs, and rural communities, presenting the perspectives of children from each.