Discovery Ed Video Resources for Use with Making Meaning
Kindergarten
Grade Unit
1
3
6
K
7
Text
Friends at School
Flower Garden
Pumpkin, Pumpkin
A Day with a Doctor
A Day with a Mail Carrier
I Want to Be a Vet
A Tiger Cub Grows Up
Moon
8
Building Beavers
Discovery Ed
Wonderful Friends
Gardens
Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
Medicine: Doctors and Nurses
From the Mailbox to the Mail Truck
Postal Workers are Community Helpers
When I Grow Up: I Want to Be a
Veterinarian
The Zoo Veterinarian
Read the Signs: A Visit to the Vet
Finding the Tiger
A Closer Look at Space: The Moon
Our Moon
A Beaver's Home: A Dirty Place to Live
Beaver
Beaver Dreams
Grade
K-2
K-2
K-2, 3-5
K-2, 3-5
K-2
K-2
K-2, 3-5
K-2
K-2
K-2, 3-5
K-2, 3-5
K-2
K-2
K-2, 3-5
K-2
Discovery Ed Video Resources for Use with Making Meaning
Grade 1
Grade Unit
5
6
Text
An Extraordinary Egg
Hearing
Dinosaur Babies
A Kangaroo Joey Grows Up
1
7
8
A Look at Teeth
A Day in the Life of a Garbage Collector
An Elephant Grows
Discovery Ed
Looking for Alligator Eggs
Rearing Baby Alligators
Our Sense of Hearing
Identifying Sounds Without Using Our Eyes
Dinosaurs
K (is for Kangaroo)
Diet: Herbivores, Carnivores, and Their
Teeth
How Your Community Stays Clean: Garbage
Collection and Street Cleaning
New Life: Elephant
Grade
3-5
3-5
K-2
K-2
3-5
K-2
3-5
3-5
K-2, 3-5
Discovery Ed Video Resources for Use with Making Meaning
Grade 2
Grade Unit
3
5
Text
The Paperboy
The Paper Crane
It Could Still Be a Worm
Plants that Eat Animals
2
7
Fishes
POP! A Book About Bubbles
Snails
8
Bend and Stretch
Discovery Ed
The Paperboy
Origami and Paper Making
Farming and Agriculture: Worm Farm
Worms: Benefits and Problems
Bugs and Worms
Venus Fly Trap
Trappers: Plants
Carnivorous Plants
LIFE: Fish
All About Fish
Fish Are All Different
Fish
Creating Bubbles: Results
The Snail
Bones and Muscles
Muscles and Bones
Grade
K-2
K-2
K-2
3-5
K-2, 3-5
K-2
3-5, 6-8
3-5, 6-8
3-5
K-2
3-5
K-2, 3-5
6-8
K-2, 3-5
3-5
K-2
Discovery Ed Video Resources for Use with Making Meaning
Grade 3
Grade Unit
1
2
5
Text
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
Have You Seen Bugs?
Brave Harriet
Morning Meals Around the World
3
6
Reptiles
“Origami: The Art of Japanese Paper
Folding”
7
Flashy Fantastic Rain Forest Frogs
What Is a Bat?
Discovery Ed
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
Bugs and Arachnids
Harriet Quimby
There’s No Food Like My Food:
Ayguerim in Kazakhstan
There’s No Food Like My Food:
Shuntsuke in Japan
There’s No Food Like My Food:
Leonie in Switzerland
There’s No Food Like My Food:
Rosario in Argentina
There’s No Food Like My Food:
Tracy Ann in Jamaica
Reptiles: What Are They?
Reptile
Cool Creatures: Reptiles
Grade
K-2, 3-5
K-2, 3-5
3-5
Origami and Paper Making
K-2
Tree Frogs
Frogs and Toads
How They Live: Bats
3-5
3-5
3-5
NewsELA Resources for Use with Making Meaning
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
K-2, 3-5
3-5
Grade 3
Grade Unit
3
2
Text
NewsELA
In the U.S., stink bugs can do a lot of damage
This little insect jumps faster than it thinks,
thanks to gears in its legs
Have You Seen Bugs?
Lexile Ranges
690-1120+
770-1110+
Discovery Ed Video Resources for Use with Making Meaning
Grade 4
Grade Unit
2
3
Text
Digging Up Tyrannosaurus Rex
Slinky Scaly Slithery Snakes
Animal Senses
5
4
6
Hurricane
A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman
Flight
8
A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart
A Picture Book of Rosa Parks
Discovery Ed
Scavenger versus Predator Theories
Favorite Snakes
Introduction to Snakes
Snakes
Senses
The Biggest Storm of All: How Hurricanes
Develop
Hurricanes
Hurricane
The Stages of Hurricane Development
America's Journey Through Slavery: Harriet
Tubman and Her Escape to Freedom
Harriet Tubman
The Function and Methods of the
Underground Railroad
Charles Lindbergh Flies across the Atlantic
Charles Lindbergh – May 20, 1927
Charles A. Lindbergh
The Fame of Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart Flies the Atlantic Solo
Uproarious Acclaim Welcomes Arrival of
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart
Rosa Parks Is Arrested
Rosa Parks' Early Life
Life In Rosa Park's America
Grade
3-5, 6-8
3-5, 6-8
3-5, 6-8
3-5
K-2, 3-5
3-5
3-5, 6-8
3-5
3-5
3-5, 6-8
3-5
3-5, 6-8
6-8, 9-12
6-8, 9-12
6-8
6-8, 9-12
6-8, 9-12
6-8
6-8
6-8
3-5, 6-8
6-8
NewsELA Resources for Use with Making Meaning
Grade 4
Grade Unit
2
Text
Digging Up Tyrannosaurus Rex
4
7
Farm Workers Unite: The Great
Grape Boycott
NewsELA
T. rex hunted its food, when it wasn't scavenging
a free (dead) meal
Big Siats ruled, T. rex's small ancestors drooled
Farmers say they need foreign workers in their
fields
Lexile Ranges
650-1190+
640-1110+
780-1230+
Discovery Ed Video Resources for Use with Making Meaning
Grade 5
Grade Unit
1
Text
The Lotus Seed
2
Life in the Rain Forests
3
Big Cats
5
Wildfires
6
Earthquakes
7
8
Life in the Rain Forests
Survival and Loss: Native American Boarding
Schools
Review of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Discovery Ed
Bees Dig for Nectar and Release Pollen
Rain Forest (Espresso Education)
Life in a Temperate Rain Forest
The Amazon Rain Forest
Life in the Rain Forest
The Jaguar
Cheetahs
Mountain Lions
Tigers' Tactics
Ontario Revealed: Wildfire
Fire in the Forest: Its Role in the Ecosystem
Hot, Dry Winds: A Common Fire Hazard in
California
Earthquake Zone
Earthquakes
see resources listed for Unit 2
Differing Lifestyles
Life on the First Reservations
The Legacy of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Grade
6-8
3-5
K-2, 3-5
6-8
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5
3-5, 6-8
3-5, 6-8
3-5, 6-8
3-5
3-5
K-2, 3-5
--3-5
6-8
3-5, 6-8
NewsELA Resources for Use with Making Meaning
Grade 5
Grade Unit
3
5
Text
Big Cats
The Van Gogh
5
Wildfires
6
Earthquakes
NewsELA
Bones from millions of years ago show big cats
first roared in Asia
They're back: Siberian tigers on the prowl in
China
Called a fake by mistake, a Van Gogh painting
sat in an attic for 60 years
Wildfires threaten people living next door to the
U.S. West's wilderness
Rim Fire a home wrecker for California's rarest
animals
Huge Yosemite Rim Fire finally slows, but a
popular camp in ruins
Arizona wildfire kills 19 firefighters; worst
tragedy since 1933
Using ocean waves to show a quake's force
Big earthquake destroys towns and kills almost
300 in Pakistan
Lexile Ranges
680-1160+
730-1260+
700-1180+
730-1140+
730-1180+
750-1220+
750-1190+
700-1140+
720-1170+
njcore.org Resources
Grade Unit
2
1
Text/Unit Topic
Chrysanthemum
njcore.org
Phonic Generalizations in Chrysanthemum
Wondering:
Fiction and Narrative Nonfiction
Reading Informational Texts Using 3-2-1
Strategy
3
5
Standard