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Hi Toneka,

The Picture Perfect Science lesson books have five different books of lessons...many of the lessons will align with your science and literacy standards for 5th grade.... each lesson also includes reading one or two (usually two) picture books along with the 5E lesson. There are also other books, such as Teaching Science through Trade Books which I think has already been recommended to you, although it does not include the strong literacy strategies and support found in the Picture Perfect Science lessons.   The chart that aligns the PP Science book lessons and books by grade level with NGSS can be found online at Picture Perfect Science or at the NSTA website if you search Picture Perfect Sciesnce NGSS correlations. If your state science standards are NGSS or leading to NGSS, this might be helpful.  If different science standards from NGSS, if you'll let me know, I'd be able to give you my opinion of which lessons would be best for your standards (I've used/taught several of the PP lessons and correlated them to different standards for several states so it won't be too hard for me to help with that).   I may even have a few of the trade/picture books to donate to your class.  Good luck with the upcoming school year.  Hope it is a great one!  

Hi, Toneka,

I wanted to post a link to NSTA's webpage about Picture-Perfect Science/STEM (which both Kay and Megan mentioned). At that link you can click over to download a sample lesson from each of the five books. We also have a resource that uses biographies of scientists and engineers as part of the lessons with a focus on the practices of science and engineering: Eureka! Grade 3-5 Science Activities and Stories. There's a free lesson of that book you can download, too. In case these links are helpful!

Best wishes for the new school year,

Claire