Break down the science of space junk in this hi-lo scaffolded text. This title layers decoding strategies with comprehension skills to ensure students can access the text as they build content knowledge. With Weird Space Science: The Breakdown, older readers can explore the science of space while building foundational reading skills, acquiring vocabulary, and gaining fluency.
Break down the science of space signals in this hi-lo scaffolded text. This title layers decoding strategies with comprehension skills to ensure students can access the text as they build content knowledge. With Weird Space Science: The Breakdown, older readers can explore the science of space while building foundational reading skills, acquiring vocabulary, and gaining fluency.
Break down the science of rogue planets in this hi-lo scaffolded text. This title layers decoding strategies with comprehension skills to ensure students can access the text as they build content knowledge. With Weird Space Science: The Breakdown, older readers can explore the science of space while building foundational reading skills, acquiring vocabulary, and gaining fluency.
Break down the science of space radiation in this hi-lo scaffolded text. This title layers decoding strategies with comprehension skills to ensure students can access the text as they build content knowledge. With Weird Space Science: The Breakdown, older readers can explore the science of space while building foundational reading skills, acquiring vocabulary, and gaining fluency.
Break down the science of planets and moons beyond Earth in this hi-lo scaffolded text. This title layers decoding strategies with comprehension skills to ensure students can access the text as they build content knowledge. With Weird Space Science: The Breakdown, older readers can explore the science of space while building foundational reading skills, acquiring vocabulary, and gaining fluency.
Break down the science of meteor showers in this hi-lo scaffolded text. This title layers decoding strategies with comprehension skills to ensure students can access the text as they build content knowledge. With Weird Space Science: The Breakdown, older readers can explore the science of space while building foundational reading skills, acquiring vocabulary, and gaining fluency.
Break down the basics of space in this hi-lo scaffolded text. This title layers decoding strategies with comprehension skills to ensure students can access the text as they build content knowledge. With Weird Space Science: The Breakdown, older readers can explore the science of space while building foundational reading skills, acquiring vocabulary, and gaining fluency.
Break down the science of black holes in this hi-lo scaffolded text. This title layers decoding strategies with comprehension skills to ensure students can access the text as they build content knowledge. With Weird Space Science: The Breakdown, older readers can explore the science of space while building foundational reading skills, acquiring vocabulary, and gaining fluency.
How do astronauts take a nap? It's harder than you think! Astronauts use many different innovations to make living in space possible. In Reaching for the Stars: Sleeping in Space, you'll discover what technology astronauts take with them to be able to live in space! From shower packs and Velcro straps to robotic arms and astronaut ice cream, let's take a look at how astronauts eat, bathe, sleep, and play while in space!
Ancient civilizations imagined space as campfires or rivers of light. Today, we imagine spaceships and warp drives and aliens. But what about tomorrow? Would you ride an elevator up into space? In Reaching for the Stars: Imagining Space, you'll explore the amazing facts about past societies’ views on space, how science has taken us to where we are today, and where we could possibly go in the future!
If you like mysteries, there’s no better place to find them than in outer space! How are stars born? Where do we search for aliens? What is a black hole? With billions of galaxies to choose from, there will always be more questions than answers. In Reaching for the Stars: Investigating Space Mysteries, you'll explore some of science's greatest discoveries, and take a look at the mysteries of space that still need to be solved!
What do you have in common with an astronaut? We use space inventions and discoveries every day! From cell phones to firemen’s outfits, athletic shoes to robots, and more! In Reaching for the Stars: Bringing Space Home, you'll discover how our race to space has improved all of these—and more!
Some planets are cold, dark, and lifeless. Not Earth! Our world is full of light, heat, and motion. What makes the difference? Energy! Energy flows through growing plants and blowing winds. It powers your body and the machines you use each day. Discover how the sun's energy travels to Earth and how it is stored and used by living things. Learn why heat in our atmosphere is rising and what people can do to control it.
In Science Masters: Earth's Place in Space, readers will learn about Earth’s place in the Milky Way and the larger universe, and how humans are learning about the endless frontier of space. Living on a world as vast as Earth, it can be easy to forget that our planet is just a tiny speck in a massive universe filled with planets, moons, stars, asteroids, comets, dark matter, and maybe even alien life!
In Spacecraft, readers will be introduced to the evolution of spacecraft technology over time, and peek into the possibilities for the spacecraft of tomorrow. This fact- and photo-filled text explains how engineers deal with the challenges of reaching and working in space.
Daring and Dangerous: Space Explorers for grades 4–8 introduces young readers to the complex world of space exploration and the famous firsts, near misses, and disasters that have taken place. The fact- and photo-filled pages of this 32-page book offer readers an opportunity to learn what it takes to be a part of this daring and dangerous profession, from lift-off to landing.
With real-world examples of science at work, this book introduces the solar system and benefits of space exploration.
This introduction to outer space explains the size of the planets in the solar system, measuring distance in astronomical units, gravity, and related math concepts.
This book describes the eight planets, dwarf planets, and other objects in the solar system.
This book presents a collection of questions, answers, and facts about the planet Earth, including its origin, continents, and relation to the Sun and Moon.
People have asked the same question for centuries: are humans alone in the universe? Astrobiologists seek to find the answer. From studying tiny organisms under a microscope to sending remote detection devices to outer space, many hope to find and communicate with life beyond the boundaries of Earth.
Read all about our incredible universe, mysterious planets, exploding stars, brave astronauts, powerful rockets, and much more. Then see if you can answer questions, such as: Why does Mars look red? On which planet do clouds smell like rotten eggs? Who was the first living thing to orbit Earth?
Could you survive mechanical failure in space? Apollo 13: Mission to the Moon in the True Survival series explores the shocking survival story of the Apollo 13 spacecraft and her crew. The book is written with a high interest level and lower level of complexity to serve more mature students reading at lower levels. Clear visuals, colorful photographs (including images of the survivors!), and considerate text help with comprehension and wild facts hold the readers' interest from the first page to the last. A table of contents, glossary, and index all enhance comprehension and vocabulary.
Explore the dark side of space in Out of this World, a new and exciting series for struggling readers. Is time travel possible? How do black holes theoretically support time travel? These and other fascinating questions are discussed in the Theory of Time Travel title using considerate text that is written at a higher maturity level with a lower reading level to engage struggling readers.
Explore the dark side of space in Out of this World, a new and exciting series for struggling readers. What is dark matter? How does it move our galaxy? These and other fascinating questions are discussed in the Dark Matter title using considerate text that is written at a higher maturity level with a lower reading level to engage struggling readers.
