ABOUT THE SERIES: Written by Rebecca Stark, these comprehensive, fun-filled units teach students important scientific facts and concepts. Each book also provides a variety of critical- and creative-thinking activities, including creative writing, experimenting, solving logic puzzles, determining cause and effect, research, math, analyzing, evaluating, and others! A fun What’s the Question? game (similar in format to Jeopardy) culminates each unit to reinforce the concepts covered in the unit. Also included in each book is a crossword puzzle, which may be used to evaluate knowledge or just for fun. Teachers are provided with answers and background information. 48 pages each. Grades 4 to 8.

ECOLOGY covers the following topics:
• Ecology: What Is It?
• Biomes • Niches
• Chains, Webs, and Pyramids
• Partnerships, Good and Bad
• Ecosystems
• Coniferous and Deciduous Forests
• Tropical Rain Forests
• Grasslands
• The Desert
• Aquatic Ecosystems