What would happen if we had automobiles, but no roads? Light bulbs, but no electricity? Our world functions smoothly when systems are in place. Transportation, health care, and education are all organized into systems that we depend upon daily. The Systems Differentiated Curriculum Kit provides exciting activities to help students discover the systems that exist all around them. The books in Prufrock's new Differentiated Curriculum Kits employ a differentiated, integrated curriculum based on broad themes. This all-in-one curriculum helps teachers save planning time, ensure compliance with national standards, and most importantly, pique their students' natural excitement and interest in discovery. By participating in the wide variety of activities in the Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grade 4, students will discover the systems around them and gain a lifelong desire to learn. In Systems Book 1: Exploration, Culture, and Ecology, students will discover the solar system, the water cycle, and their family history (among many other things). In Systems Book 2: Settlement, Currency, and Measurement, students will discover their hometown history, probability math, and climatology (among many other things). In Systems Book 3: Economics, Climate, and Comparisons, students will explore the system of free enterprise, weather systems, and the systems on other planets (among many other things). Each book contains detailed lesson plans, reproducible activity sheets, and assessment tools. Grade 4

What is a frontier? What are the frontiers of the future? What frontiers are being explored today? These and other questions are presented in this series on frontiers that help make this concept come alive to all students. The books in the Differentiated Curriculum Kits employ a differentiated, integrated curriculum based on broad themes. This all-in-one curriculum helps teachers save planning time, ensure compliance with national standards, and most importantly, pique their students' natural excitement and interest in discovery. By participating in the wide variety of activities in the Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grade 6, students will discover the frontiers around them and gain a lifelong desire to learn. In Frontiers Book 1: Pioneers, Genetics, and Energy, students will explore forgotten pioneers in the Westward expansion, the Civil Rights Movement, and medicine. In Frontiers Book 2: Geography, Explorers, and Literature, students will follow the trail of Lewis and Clark, as well as other explorers that broke through geographic and literary frontiers. In Frontiers Book 3: Geology, Astonomy, and Environment, students will explore plate tectonics, the rock cycle, Mars, and conservation of natural resources. Each book contains detailed lesson plans, reproducible activity sheets, and assessment tools. Grade 6

The Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grades 4-6 provides students with exciting and interesting activities about topics such as nutrition, government, math, explorations, debate questioning, and critical thinking. The books in the Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Kits employ a differentiated, integrated curriculum based on broad themes. This all-in-one curriculum helps teachers save planning time, ensure compliance with national standards, and most importantly, pique their students' natural excitement and interest in discovery. By participating in the wide variety of activities in the Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grades 4-6, students will discover the world around them and gain a lifelong desire to learn. The books in this series of Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Units for Grades 4-6 include Balances, Choices, Explorations, Questions, and Viewpoints. Each book contains detailed lesson plans, reproducible activity sheets, and assessment tools. In Balances, students explore the universal concept of balance from many angles, including government, nutrition, mathematics, and even elevators. Choices enlightens students to the many choices they make every day, while teaching decision-making strategies, consequences, and the implications of choice. Explorations challenges students to go beyond the explorers before them to discover new concepts, such as winter survival tactics, alternative sources of energy, the effects of ancient inventions on today's society, and more. In Questions, students examine the Five W's of questioning, Socratic-style questions, and the need for important questions to enact change. Viewpoints provides critical thinking activities to help students learn to consider the views of others in both formal debate and difficult decisions. Teachers and students alike will enjoy this kit of exciting multiage curriculum. Not only will these books save teachers time and ease their minds by meeting and exceeding national gifted education standards, they will challenge and expand students' minds with enjoyable hands-on activities. Grades 4-6