Grade 5. 2019. 50 pages. What’s Cooking reader serves as an informational text resource that is incorporated into many lessons in the Smithsonian Science for the Classroom™ module How Can We Identify Materials Based on Their Properties? Topics include: Close Up; All About Alum; Sweet Corn; Invisible Air; What's the Solution?; What's the Point?; and Something New. Available in English and Spanish. Soft cover.

Grade 5. 2019. 50 pages. What’s Cooking reader serves as an informational text resource that is incorporated into the main activities of many lessons in the Smithsonian Science for the Classroom™ module How Can We Identify Materials Based on Their Properties?

Topics include:

• Close Up: The science of X-ray crystallography
• All About Alum: The uses and properties of alum
• Sweet Corn: The importance of corn in Native American history
• Invisible Air: Particles that make up gases
• What's the Solution? Special kinds of mixtures called solutions
• What's the Point? How scientists use melting points
• Something New: How chemical reactions produce new things

The reader connects student literacy to science in the real world. Available in English (on-grade-level or below-grade-level) and Spanish, and as single copies or in packs of 8. Soft cover.