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Basketball Angles

Julia Wall (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781433394010

Learn all about angles with this exciting book about basketball! Examples taken from the lively sport keep readers engaged and help them better understand geometry and STEM themes. Readers will learn about different types of angles and their qualities, familiarizing themselves with acute angles, obtuse angles, right angles, and straight angles. All of these angles have a vertex, rays, and an angle degree that children can determine with a protractor. This title encourages children to apply mathematics to other topics by teaching them about both sports and angles in one entertaining book! Vibrant images, easy-to-read text, engaging practice problems, and an accessible glossary work together to make learning about angles easy and exciting!

CSI

Andrew Einspruch (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781433394089

Learn how important data analysis is to crime scene investigations! Investigators examine data from fingerprints, blood samples, DNA samples, and lie detector tests to analyze and interpret crime scenes. This exciting title provides readers with engaging examples of data analysis and probability. Through eye-catching images, easy-to-read text, simple practice problems, and clear mathematical charts and diagrams, this title will leave readers more confident in their data analysis and STEM skills, all while showing them how the things they learn are used outside of the classroom in very important ways!

The Jungle Park Case

Andrew Einspruch (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781433394096

Read along as three children become crime scene investigators when pieces of their favorite playground equipment begin to disappear! The children collect data and analyze their findings, eventually catching the culprit! This exciting example of data analysis and STEM themes will keep readers engaged and show them how useful data analysis can be! With vivid images, easy-to-read text, related practice problems, mathematical charts, and an exciting story, this title makes data analysis exciting and simple for readers to use in the classroom and on their own!

The Winning Angle

Julia Wall (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781433394003

Great sports players understand angles! Readers are introduced to geometry in this exciting title that uses easy-to-read text, STEM topics, eye-catching photos, and engaging practice questions to teach children about basic geometrical concepts, including angles, lines of symmetry, perpendicular lines, and a vertex. Featuring challenging mathematical problems, a glossary, and useful index, this title will give readers all the tools they need to learn the winning angles!

Night at the Community Center

Joshua Rae Martin (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781433393457

Practice nonstandard measurement at the community center! A rock climbing wall is the same height as eight children! A tennis racket is the same length as three ping pong paddles! This fun title uses vivid images, simple practice questions, and helpful mathematical diagrams to keep young readers engaged while helping them better understand nonstandard measurement and early STEM concepts.

A Year in Our Lives

Dawson J. Hunt (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781433393426

Follow the story of two pen pals to learn about time measurement and the months of the year! This charming title teaches children about time, analog and digital clocks, and early STEM themes by telling the story of what happened to these two pen pals during each month of the year. Make time measurement fun and easy with vibrant images, practice problems, and this exciting story!

En la estación de bomberos

Dianne Irving (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781433391699

Take a trip to the fire station to learn how firefighters use measurement to put out fires! This engaging, Spanish-translated title takes young readers through the history of firefighting and the development of fire engines, teaching them how firefighters have measured extinguishing water throughout the years. Firefighters used to carry three-gallon buckets of water to toss on a fire! Some old water tanks held 90 gallons of water! These fun facts, paired with related practice problems, help readers learn more about measurement, volume, perimeter, and STEM topics.

Medidas naturales

Dianne Irving (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781433391682

Learn about natural measurements that people used in the past! Before people used inches, meters, pounds, and hours for measurement, they used body parts, the sun, stones, and seeds to measure weight, length, time, and more! Learn how to use a sun dial! This exciting, Spanish-translated title will engage readers as they improve their measurement and STEM skills, solving fun practice problems.

Natural Disasters

Diana Noonan (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781433391569

Learn how estimation and approximation theory can be helpful when natural disasters strike! This informative title tells the stories of Hurricane Katrina, tornadoes and thunderstorms in Oklahoma, and a tsunami in Indonesia. All of these natural disasters were very dangerous and devastating, but estimations and predictions saved lives! This title teaches readers about the properties of natural disasters, while reminding them how vital mathematics can be! Children can explore the math behind these natural disasters through practice problems. These practical examples, along with vibrant images, clear mathematical diagrams, easy-to-read text, STEM themes, and an accessible glossary, will keep readers engaged and will re-enforce the importance of mathematics.

Olympic Technology

John Lockyer (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781433391521

Using examples from some of the most popular Olympic sports, this captivating title will have readers excited and eager to learn all they can about telling time and timing accuracy! Vivid photos and a colorful timeline combine with easy-to-read text, STEM topics, and mathematical charts and graphs to give readers an inside look into sports technology while providing opportunities to practice time measurement. With the accessible glossary, index, and step-by-step instructions, readers will have all the tools they need!

Life in the Ocean Layers

John Lockyer (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781433391545

Practice measurement while learning about marine ecology and life in the ocean layers! There are so many animals living in the vast oceans of our planet! Not only does this title teach readers how to measure marine life by grams, feet, inches, and other similar units of measurement, but it teaches them how to measure ocean water using Celsius and Fahrenheit. Using familiar and unfamiliar units of measurement in an unfamiliar territory challenges readers to expand their measurement and STEM skills. Exciting images, simple practice problems, easy-to-read text, clear mathematical charts and diagrams, and an accessible glossary all help children advance their mathematical skills.

Patterns in Nature

Tony Hyland (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781433391477

Follow through a campsite to find patterns in nature! This title encourages algebraic thinking and pattern perception by pointing out the patterns of animals, plants, and more! Vibrant images, clear mathematical charts and diagrams, easy-to-read text, and an accessible glossary give readers all the tools they need to feel confident finding fun patterns and sequences in nature and elsewhere around them. Thanks to patterns, students can learn easy, helpful mathematical shortcuts, improving their algebra and STEM skills.

The Bread Book

Tony Hyland (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781433391446

Practice multiplication, division, and fractions while learning all about bread! Readers can apply multiplication, division, numbers and operations, and STEM skills throughout this book with the help of practice problems. With an accessible glossary, vibrant images, clear mathematical diagrams, a historic timeline, and easy-to-read text, this book will engage readers and show them how to apply mathematics to their daily lives--even to what they eat!

Tracking Time

Dianne Irving (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781433391385

Learn the basics of measuring time in this engaging title! Review the history of time measurement, seeing many ways people have measured time in the past and continue to today! In the past, people used sundials, water clocks, and sandglasses to measure time. Now, we have very accurate and widely used units of time, like months, days, and years. Learn all about units of measurement, time zones, daylight savings time, and STEM themes! Vibrant images, simple practice problems, and helpful mathematical diagrams simplify time measurement so readers will feel more confident measuring time in their daily lives.

Big Digs: Construction Site

Lisa Greathouse (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781433380211

How do architects and contractors use math and geometry to help build a house? Readers will find out in this engaging nonfiction book that features bright images and charts, informational text, and intriguing facts that will familiarize children with construction, construction equipment and materials, and blueprints.

Count Me In! What's for Lunch?

Lisa Greathouse (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781433380044

Early elementary readers find out how important lunch is in order to keep them energized throughout their busy day. Implementing a variety of mathematical skills, from addition to fractions, in conjunction with informational text, helpful charts and vivid images, children are encouraged to make healthy choices at lunch time to get the best nutrients and vitamins that their bodies need.

Saturno para mi cumpleaños

John McGranaghan (author), Wendy Edelson (illustrator)

Publisher: Arbordale Publishing ISBN: 9781934359655

Jeffery quiere Saturno para su cumpleaños y quiere - todas las 47 lunas. Después de todo ¡estas podrían ser luces fantásticas para la noche! Pero él no es egoísta; él compartirá los anillos con algunos de sus amigos de la escuela y su profesora, la Srta. Cassini. Los hechos reales acerca de Saturno están entrelazados inadvertidamente en esta historia divertida en la que Geraldo explica lo que él hará en el presente y como él lo cuidará. Será mejor que su papá se apresure con la orden porque el pedido puede que tome un tiempo largo.

It Is about Time!

Cecilia Minden (author)

Publisher: Cherry Lake Publishing ISBN: 9781602799066

Level 1 guided reader that introduces young students to the concept of time while supporting the development of reading skills.

¿Quiénes usan datos?

April Barth (author)

Publisher: Newmark Learning ISBN: 9781612698267

Algunas personas necesitan datos, o información, para hacer su trabajo. Lee acerca de quienes usan datos en su trabajo.

Glaciers

Barbara A. Somervill (author)

Publisher: Cherry Lake Publishing ISBN: 9781602797024

This book uses math and science to help students learn about glaciers. Math challenge questions provide students with the opportunity to apply math skills as they learn about the characteristics of glaciers.

STEAM Guides in Inventions

Kevin Walker (author)

Publisher: Rourke Publishing ISBN: 9781681919034

This book describes the process of invention from idea to product design and marketing, showing how each STEAM field is involved in the process.

STEAM Guides in App Development

Ruth Kirk (author)

Publisher: Rourke Publishing ISBN: 9781681919065

This books looks at the development of apps and the ways each STEAM field is involved in the process.

STEAM Guides in TV Production

Judy Greenspan (author)

Publisher: Rourke Publishing ISBN: 9781681919058

This book gives insights into the processes involved in creating and braodcasting television shows, and explains how each STEAM field is involved.

Chicks 2, 4, 6

Martha E.H. Rustad (author)

Publisher: Amicus Publishing ISBN: 9781681510446

Count up to 20 by twos, learning about baby farm animals along the way.

One More Bug

Martha E.H. Rustad (author)

Publisher: Amicus Publishing ISBN: 9781681510477

Learn about insects while practicing addition facts with single digit numbers.