Dr. Brian Mandell, Division Director of Curriculum and Communications, Smithsonian Science Education Center, discusses the thought that went into the development of the Smithsonian Science for the Classroom program and the bundling of the standards to tell a story. Click on the video to learn more.

Double the Learning: Science of Reading Strategies in Elementary Science
A whole set of standards is devoted to informational text—and science reading is informational text reading—so it’s a great way to merge the two together.

