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Teacher's Companion Guide: So You Want To Be An Astronaut — Free Download

Linda Soules — Sat, 09 May 2026 22:42:47 -0400

A complete, ready-to-use classroom resource for grades 4–8, built around Linda Soules' So You Want To Be An Astronaut. Inside: 35+ scaffolded discussion questions, a 20-word kid-friendly glossary, seven hands-on activities, seven extension projects, nine writing prompts, full cross-curricular connections, and standards alignment with NGSS and Common Core. Designed to flex from a single-week unit to a six-week integration — or to be pulled apart and used in pieces across the year. Like the book itself, the guide trusts students with the real texture of the work: the wonder and the difficulty, the launch and the loneliness.

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Teacher's Companion Guide: So You Want To Be A Veterinarian — Free Download

Linda Soules — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:17:31 -0400

A complete, ready-to-use classroom resource for grades 4–8, built around Linda Soules' So You Want To Be A Veterinarian. Inside: 35+ scaffolded discussion questions organized by chapter, a 20-word kid-friendly glossary, seven hands-on activities, seven extension projects, nine writing prompts, full cross-curricular connections, and standards alignment with NGSS and Common Core. Designed to flex from a single-week unit to a longer career-and-science integration — or to be pulled apart and used in pieces across the year. Like the book itself, the guide trusts students with the real texture of the work: the joy of healing and the hardest goodbyes, the science of diagnosis and the art of earning a frightened animal's trust. Includes a thoughtful teacher's note on handling sensitive topics — euthanasia, financial limits on care, and professional grief — with care.

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Teacher's Companion Guide: So You Want To Be A Dinosaur Hunter (Paleontologist) — Free Download

Linda Soules — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:28:46 -0400

A complete, ready-to-use classroom resource for grades 4–8, built around Linda Soules' So You Want To Be A Dinosaur Hunter. Inside: 35+ scaffolded discussion questions organized by chapter, a 21-word kid-friendly glossary, seven hands-on activities, seven extension projects, nine writing prompts, full cross-curricular connections (math, science, social studies, ELA, visual arts, and geography), and standards alignment with NGSS and Common Core. Designed to flex from a single-week unit to a longer Earth-science or evolution integration — or to be pulled apart and used in pieces across the year. Like the book itself, the guide trusts students with the real texture of the work: the dust and the wonder, the patience and the discovery, the asteroid and the sparrow on the windowsill that is, still, a feathered theropod. Includes a thoughtful teacher's note on handling mass extinction and the historical exclusion of women like Mary Anning from science.

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Teacher's Companion Guide: So You Want To Be A Video Game Designer — Free Download

Linda Soules — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:34:07 -0400

A complete, ready-to-use classroom resource for grades 4–8, built around Linda Soules' So You Want To Be A Video Game Designer. Inside: 35+ scaffolded discussion questions organized by chapter, a 20-word kid-friendly glossary, seven hands-on activities (no expensive software or specialized lab required), seven extension projects, nine writing prompts, full cross-curricular connections (math, science, social studies, ELA, visual arts, and SEL), and standards alignment with NGSS engineering design and Common Core. Designed to flex from a single-week unit to a longer creative computing or media literacy integration — or to be pulled apart and used in pieces across the year. Like the book itself, the guide trusts students with the real texture of the work: that "what if?" is a tool, that the first version will be terrible, that fun is not a feature you add, and that the central skill is empathy for the player. Includes a thoughtful teacher's note on handling harsh online feedback and complicated home relationships with gaming.

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Teacher's Companion Guide: So You Want To Be A Firefighter — Free Download

Linda Soules — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:37:30 -0400

A complete, ready-to-use classroom resource for grades 4–8, built around Linda Soules' So You Want To Be A Firefighter. Inside: 30+ scaffolded discussion questions organized by chapter, a 22-word kid-friendly glossary, seven hands-on activities (including a Gear-Up Drill, a Fire Triangle investigation, and a Home Escape Plan students bring back signed by a parent), seven extension projects, nine writing prompts, full cross-curricular connections (math, science, social studies, ELA, visual arts, and SEL), and standards alignment with NGSS and Common Core. Designed to flex from a single-week unit to a longer civics or community-helpers integration — or to be pulled apart and used in pieces across the year. Like the book itself, the guide trusts students with the real texture of the work: the alarm at 3 AM, the laminated checklist at the end of the call, the bell rung slowly for the firefighters who didn't come home, and the promise — made every day, kept on ordinary Tuesdays — that when something goes wrong, someone will be there. Includes a thoughtful teacher's note on handling line-of-duty deaths, 9/11, and the emotional weight of the profession with care.

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Teacher's Companion Guide: So You Want To Be A Zookeeper — Free Download

Linda Soules — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:40:00 -0400

A complete, ready-to-use classroom resource for grades 4–8, built around Linda Soules' So You Want To Be A Zookeeper. Inside: 30+ scaffolded discussion questions organized by chapter, an 18-word kid-friendly glossary, seven hands-on activities (including a Baseline Observation lab, an enrichment-puzzle build, and the "Conservation Sentence" challenge — explaining conservation in fifteen words a seven-year-old can act on), six extension projects, nine writing prompts, full cross-curricular connections (math, science, social studies, ELA, visual arts, and SEL), and standards alignment with NGSS and Common Core. Designed to flex from a single-week career-exploration unit to a longer life-science or conservation integration — or to be pulled apart and used in pieces across the year. Like the book itself, the guide trusts students with the real texture of the work: the 5 AM dawn shifts, the 50-pound feed bags, the elephant who recognizes her keeper by footstep, the species pulled back from the edge one bucket at a time. Includes a thoughtful teacher's note on handling grief, extinction, and the quiet moral courage of caring for animals whose outcomes are not always in human hands.

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Teacher's Companion Guide: So You Want To Be A Marine Biologist — Free Download

Linda Soules — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:42:51 -0400

A complete, ready-to-use classroom resource for grades 4–8, built around Linda Soules' So You Want To Be A Marine Biologist. Inside: 30+ scaffolded discussion questions organized by chapter, an 18-word kid-friendly glossary, seven hands-on activities (including a Tide Pool Field Notebook practice, a Transect Line Survey, a build-your-own Secchi disk, and a mini grant proposal with peer review), six extension projects, nine writing prompts, full cross-curricular connections (math, science, social studies, ELA, visual arts, and a music-and-bioacoustics module for listening to the once-called "silent deep"), and standards alignment with NGSS and Common Core. Designed to flex from a single-week career-exploration unit to a longer ocean-and-ecosystems integration — or to be pulled apart and used in pieces across the year. Like the book itself, the guide trusts students with the real texture of the work: the storm-deck nights, the years of grant rejections before a single expedition, the patience of hovering motionless until reef fish forget you are there, and the wonder of a planet whose deep ocean turns out to be louder than its forests. Includes a thoughtful teacher's note on handling climate-anxiety and eco-grief, following the book's own pairing of urgency with resilience.

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Teacher's Companion Guide: So You Want To Be A Spy (Intelligence Agent) — Free Download

Linda Soules — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:45:53 -0400

A complete, ready-to-use classroom resource for grades 4–8, built around Linda Soules' So You Want To Be A Spy (Intelligence Agent). Inside: 30 scaffolded discussion questions, a 22-word kid-friendly glossary, six hands-on activities, six extension projects, nine writing prompts, full cross-curricular connections, and standards alignment with NGSS, Common Core, the C3 Framework, and CASEL. Designed to flex from a single-week unit to a longer cross-curricular integration — or to be pulled apart and used in pieces across the year. Like the book itself, the guide trusts students with the real texture of the work: the patience and the precision, the noticing and the not-saying, the courage it takes to keep asking whether what you believe is actually true.

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Teacher's Companion Guide: So You Want To Be A Race Car Driver — Free Download

Linda Soules — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:49:12 -0400

A complete, ready-to-use classroom resource for grades 4–8, built around Linda Soules' So You Want To Be A Race Car Driver. Inside: 28 scaffolded discussion questions, a 22-word kid-friendly glossary, six hands-on activities, six extension projects, nine writing prompts, full cross-curricular connections, and standards alignment with NGSS, Common Core, the C3 Framework, and Health/PE. Designed to flex from a single-week unit to a longer cross-curricular integration — or to be pulled apart and used in pieces across the year. Like the book itself, the guide trusts students with the real texture of the work: the precision behind the speed, the conversation between a driver and a machine, and the truth that smooth is fast.

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Teacher's Companion Guide: So You Want To Be A Doctor — Free Download

Linda Soules — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:51:22 -0400

A complete, ready-to-use classroom resource for grades 4–8, built around Linda Soules' So You Want To Be A Doctor. Inside: 30 scaffolded discussion questions, a 22-word kid-friendly glossary, six hands-on activities, seven extension projects, nine writing prompts, full cross-curricular connections, and standards alignment with NGSS, Common Core, Social Studies, and Health/SEL. Designed to flex from a single-week unit to a longer cross-curricular integration — or to be pulled apart and used in pieces across the year. Like the book itself, the guide trusts students with the real texture of the work: the detective's patience and the witness's steadiness, the wonder at the human body, and the quiet weight of the promise underneath it all — I will not abandon you.

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