Grade 5. 2025. 60 pages. Lexile range: 760-890L. Water Works reader serves as an informational text resource that is incorporated into many lessons in the Smithsonian Science for the Classroom™ 2nd Edition module How Can We Protect and Clean Earth's Water? Topics include: Water in Our World; Ocean in Trouble; Prove It; Four Spheres in One; Pipes, Pumps, and Paces; Tulare History; Something in the Water; and The Aral Sea. Soft cover.

Grade 5. 2025. 60 pages. Lexile range: 760-890L. Water Works literacy reader serves as an informational text resource that is incorporated into the main activities of many lessons in the Smithsonian Science for the Classroom™ 2nd Edition module How Can We Protect and Clean Earth's Water?

Topics include:

• Water in Our World: Analyzing where water is found on Earth (840L)
• Ocean in Trouble: Human impacts on our ocean (800L)
• Prove It: Satellites measure changes to groundwater mass (870L)
• Four Spheres in One: Studying the four spheres of Earth's systems (760L)
• Pipes, Pumps, and Paces: Ways people bring water into homes (860L)
• Tulare History: A story of a disappearing lake (880L)
• Something in the Water: Chesapeake Bay Case Study: Natural versus man-made water filtration (890L)
• The Aral Sea: Two perspectives on the Aral Sea (770L)

The reader connects student literacy to science in the real world. Soft cover.