Kids learn early that snow and winter are cold. This title helps beginning read and learn about things we can do during winter.
It's summer! Silly Kitty goes outside to explore. Find out what Silly Kitty needs when he discovers it’s a very sunny day.
Word books give beginning readers chance to see real life words and a head start in science.
A variety of habitats exist on our planet. Let's further explore what ecosystems are home to the animals of the earth.
Children explore our world as they touch, taste, and change the matter that surrounds us.
Focus on a small garden - planting a seed, understanding that it grows and we take something from it.
A much under valued insect of our world. This colorful book focusing on the life and importance of honey bees. What their homes are like, what they collect for food and how they help plants. Kids will also find out how different bees have different jobs within their colony.
Young readers are introduced to some of the plants and animals in a forest habitat. They are encouraged to learn more about food chains in a forest and to draw one of their own.
Deserts are amazing ecosystems and ecosystems are an intrigal part of STEM. Deserts may have very little water, but they are home to many plants and animals. Young children are introduced to one desert food chain and are encouraged to learn more and draw a food chain of their own. Also see Food Chains In The Forest to help round out this topic.
A great title for an early reader, this book builds vocabulary around an important science subject. This nonfiction book teaches ecosystems at a beginning level. Works great science test prep for the struggling learner.
The American Beaver is often overlooked as an environmental wonder. It can create entire ecosystems. It can also drive land owners crazy by cutting down a large number of trees changing the landscape.
Early Childhood Science dictates kids know and understand the outdoors including how things grow. This books shows that trees have branches, leaves, roots and the leaves fall from many trees once it gets cold. Best of all, students can learn about trees right in their own yard or neighborhood.
Not all kids have access to a pond. This book helps bring the pond and the life around it into the classroom. A very low-level reader for exploring and understanding what makes a pond.
Follow these kids as they give you ideas on finding a bug in a tree! Fun, colorful illustrations. Words to know about trees and actual "bug" information and comprehension questions at the end of the book.
Animals are endangered in many kinds of habitats and for different reasons. This intriguing book looks at why some animals have become endangered due to changes in their habitat. Examples include animals in the Arctic that rely on ice for hunting face the challenge of melting ice due to climate change, the populations of animals born only on particular islands and nowhere else are shrinking, and many kinds of ocean animals are being poisoned by water pollution. Ideas are included to encourage readers to help protect these endangered animals and their habitats.
This entertaining book shows how animals communicate to share information, attract mates, or scare away enemies. They sing, growl, howl, spray smelly scents, and make their body parts bigger. Students will have fun learning about these communication skills and be asked to compare their communication methods with those of animals.
Animals adapt, or change, to stay alive. Adaptation can happen in an animal’s body or in the way it behaves. Some adaptations have taken place over many years, and others are caused by changing habitats due to the actions of people. This informative book shows animal adaptations due to changing climates, habitat changes, and opportunistic behaviors that help animals survive, such as the creation of new species. The coywolf, for example, is a new species. It is part coyote and part wolf, and has a much greater chance of survival than either of the animals that created it.
People have learned a lot from animals and copied many of their ways of surviving. This interesting book details many, often surprising, examples: bird flight and airplanes; defensive equipment such as helmets and turtle shells; strong spiderlike threads for surgeries; heating and cooling systems such as those created by termites; camouflage patterns on uniforms or vehicles in battle; and animal prints copied in fashions and decorations.
This fun title asks readers to think about how different body coverings protect animals by keeping them warm and safe. From fur and feathers to scales and shells, readers get a close-up look at different animal coats to see how they suit the habitats and lives of the animals that are covered in them.
Discover how a tiny seed grows to become a pumpkin with the help of water, sunlight, air, and soil.
Read about the things that change outdoors with the season, including the hours of sunlight and the temperature.
Everything in nature has an opposite, or at least, that is the way people describe things that are the most unlike. This engaging book shows these extreme differences in sizes, colors and light, texture, smell and taste, the states of water, landforms, positions and directions on Earth, seasons, and even in people. An activity spread asks children to find opposite characteristics in a group of animals.
This title introduces readers to the growth of plants in spring. Simple text, engaging photos, and a photo glossary make this title the perfect introduction to the topic.
A young child walks along a country road into town where there’s a parade on. The experiences of the day, and the child’s eventual homecoming and bedtime, are chronicled and compared to the sun. The sun takes the form of the yolk of an egg, a spool of thread, the eye of a bird, an ice-cream cone and a dandelion. Each round, yellow item on the page hints at the big golden ball in the sky. Stunning illustrations by Josée Bisaillon capture how imagination shapes the environment around us. This simple board book shows children that the way they see the world—by heart, mind and imagination—is just right. Revelling in metaphor, The Sun is a Peach encourages that magical leap of imagination and asks the reader to look at everyday objects from a different perspective.
Pendant qu’un enfant vaque à ses occupations quotidiennes, toutes sortes de choses lui font penser à la lune, là-haut dans le ciel. La lune est comme un étang gelé la nuit dans le bois. La lune est comme le lait dans le seau après la traite des vaches. Les merveilleuses illustrations de Josée Bisaillon expriment comment notre imagination façonne notre environnement.
