Dr. Brian Mandell, Division Director of Curriculum and Communications, Smithsonian Science Education Center, discusses the key innovations of the new standards Smithsonian’s developers have taken to heart in the development of their new program, Smithsonian Science for the Classroom. 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.

