What country has green rain forests, tall volcanoes, and sandy beaches? COSTA RICA! Features include author biography, detailed maps, educational front/back matter, full-color photographs, glossary of key words, index, note to parents and educators, and table of contents.
This title features some common summer weather, like sunshine and thunderstorms. Very simple text combined with correlating and colorful images will both inform and strengthen reading skills.
Follow a gray whale from its summer feeding grounds off the coast of Alaska to its winter birthing grounds in the warmer waters off of Mexico. This giant mammal will delight readers, as will the photos, exciting information, and migration route map!
Follow a caribou on its migration through the Arctic in search of a warmer place in the winter months. This amazing mammal will delight readers, as will the photos, exciting information, and migration route map!
Follow a dragonfly on its multi-generational migration through North America. Also discover the longest insect migration from southern India to Africa made by dragonflies! This amazing insect will delight readers, as will the photos, exciting information, and migration route map!
Follow a Canada goose on its migration south for winter. This amazing bird will delight readers, as will the photos, exciting information, and migration route map!
Follow an Arctic tern on the longest migration of any living thing, from the Arctic to Antarctica and back again. This amazing little bird will delight readers, as will the photos, exciting information, and migration route map!
In Rocks, beginning readers will learn to identify different kinds of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks. Photos and carefully leveled text provide defining details for each kind, such texture and color. A comprehensive back matter feature quizzes readers, asking them to match each image of a rock with its name. Children can learn more about rocks and how to identify them online using our safe search engine that provides relevant, age-appropriate websites. Rocks also features reading tips for teachers and parents, photo labels, a picture glossary, a table of contents, and an index.
In Clouds, beginning readers will learn to identify different kinds of clouds in the sky. Photos and carefully leveled text provide defining details for each kind, such shape and color, and what kind of weather each can bring. A comprehensive back matter feature quizzes readers, asking them to match each image of a cloud with its name. Cloud name pronunciations are provided. Children can learn more about clouds and how to identify them online using our safe search engine that provides relevant, age-appropriate websites. Clouds also features reading tips for teachers and parents, photo labels, a picture glossary, a table of contents, and an index.
Kids will love this playful story in both Spanish and English. This dual language reader will encourage children to learn weather words and phrases. Simple sentence structures and repetitive words will have young readers learning a new language in no time.
In Biome Beasts: Desert Animals, readers will discover how desert animals survive and thrive in the driest places on the planet. Photos, text, and sidebars describe how these animals adapt to the challenging climate of these regions. Earth’s four desert biomes – hot, semiarid, coastal, and cold – each have their own set of challenges for the living things within them.
In Biome Beasts: Grassland Animals, readers will discover how these animals survive in prairies, steppes, and savannas around the world. Grassland biomes are home to a wide variety of animals. Whether grazing on grasses, building communities underground, or sailing overhead, animals have adapted to the challenges found in both temperate and tropical grassland biomes.
In Biome Beasts: Boreal Forest Animals, readers will discover how boreal beasts survive the harsh climate. The boreal forest teems with wildlife during the short, mild summer. This changes quickly when fall arrives. Only the living things that have adapted to the region’s freezing temperatures and frozen land can remain in the forest year-round.
In Biome Beasts: Deciduous Forest Animals, readers will discover how deciduous beasts rise to the challenges of the climate in each biome. Deciduous forests around the world are home to a variety of animals. Animals that are part of the temperate deciduous forest biome must adapt to the conditions of all four seasons to survive. Animals that are part of the tropical and subtropical deciduous forest biomes must adapt to both the wet and dry seasons.
In Biome Beasts: Tundra Animals, readers will discover how animals survive and thrive in the treeless tundra. Tundra biomes have the harshest climates in the world. From the tiny Arctic bumblebee to the huge polar bear, every animal that lives in the Arctic or alpine tundra biome has adapted physically or socially to the harsh conditions.
In Biome Beasts: Ocean Animals, readers will discover how animals survive in saltwater biomes and the skies above them. Most of Earth is covered by oceans and seas that are home to an amazing variety of animals. Some have adapted to life in the cold, dark aphotic zone. Others live in the disphotic zone where predators attack from above or below. Still others live in the top layer, the euphotic zone, where food is plentiful but competition for it is fierce.
In Biome Beasts: Estuary Animals, readers will discover how and why animals survive and thrive in these sheltered biomes. Life in the estuary is always changing. Ocean tides of saltwater flow in and out of the estuary and mix with the fresh water that flows from rivers and streams. The animals that swim or wade in the waters or make the mudflats their homes must have physical or social adaptations that allow them to live in the salty mix.
En el libro se describen los procesos naturales que crean las rocas. Se examinan las rocas ígneas, sedimentarias, y metamórficas.
Aprende sobre la vida de cada planta y animal de este hábitat y cómo los humanos podemos ayudar a protegerlo.
En el libro aprenderás qué son los glaciares y que pasará si desaparecen.
Take an in-depth look at earth science in this science encyclopedia.
Chronicles the acquisition and settlement of the various territories that have not become states but are governed by the United States.
Chronicles the Louisiana Purchase, the territory which reached from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, in 1803.
This title introduces beginning readers to the country of New Zealand. The book covers New Zealand's geography, capital and largest cities, exciting animals, and its most popular sports. Complete with large, full color photographs, a large map, and more exciting landmarks to explore. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
This title introduces beginning readers to the country of Norway. The book covers Norway's geography, capital and largest cities, animals, popular foods, and popular sports. Complete with large, full color photographs, a large map, and more exciting landmarks to explore. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
