This high-interest informational text will help students gain science content knowledge while building their literacy skills and nonfiction reading comprehension. This appropriately leveled nonfiction science reader features hands-on, simple science experiments and full-color images and graphics. Fourth grade students will learn all about the importance of circuits through this engaging text that is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards and supports STEM education.
If you’ve worn headphones, watched TV, worked on a computer, or ridden in a car, then you have experienced the power of electromagnetism. Learn all about electricity, magnetism, the link between these forces: electromagnetism, and how these forces impact our lives. Teach third-grade students about atoms, currents, circuits, magnetism, and more with the colorful images and fun facts in this high-interest informational text. Featuring a hands-on “Think Like a Scientist” lab activity that is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards, this e-book supports STEM instruction and helps students apply what they've learned in the text. Helpful diagrams and text features, such as a glossary and index, are also included to improve content-area literacy.
While only 12 people have actually had contact with it, many songs and movies have featured this shining object. But it's not a superstar, or even a star at all. It's our moon. From tides and tracking time to gravitational pull on orbits, the moon affects life here on Earth. Take a trip to the moon through the fact-filled pages of this e-book! Third-grade students will enjoy learning about the physical features and phases of the moon, tides, lunar calendars, and more through this high-interest informational text filled with vibrant photographs. Aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards, a hands-on “Think Like a Scientist” lab activity is included at the end of this e-book, providing students with an opportunity to apply what they've learned in the text. Helpful diagrams, including the eight phases of the moon, and text features, such as a glossary and index, are also included to improve content-area literacy and support STEM instruction.
Will you need a jacket today? You would if it’s going to be like the coldest day on record: -134°F! We depend on the weather forecast to help us make choices every day. But how do meteorologists make their predictions? Join storm chasers and explore the tools they use to measure and track invisible patterns in the sky in this exciting e-book. Teach third-grade students about measuring temperature, wind speed, air pressure, rain, and more with the colorful images and fun facts in this high-interest informational text. Featuring a hands-on “Think Like a Scientist” lab activity that is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards and instructions for making tools such as a thermometer, barometer, and anemometer, this e-book helps students apply what they've learned in the text and supports STEM instruction. Helpful diagrams and text features, such as a glossary and index, are also included to improve content-area literacy.
Adapt or die. From migration to camouflage, species’ traits have adapted over time to make life livable in the harshest of environments. Explore common, uncommon, and just plain weird survival traits that enable animals to live, thrive, and survive! Colorful images and fun facts paired with age-appropriate text will keep third-grade students engaged from the beginning to the end of this e-book! Featuring a hands-on “Think Like a Scientist” lab activity that is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards, this e-book helps students apply what they've learned in the text and supports STEM instruction. Helpful diagrams and text features, such as a glossary and index, are also included to improve content-area literacy.
Have you ever seen a tree at the grocery store buying dinner? Probably not! Discover how plants harness solar energy and other elements to make their own food through photosynthesis, a crucial process upon which all living things depend. Third-grade students will enjoy learning about photosynthesis and plant structures through this high-interest informational text filled with fun facts and colorful images. Aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards, a hands-on “Think Like a Scientist” lab activity is included at the end of the book, providing students with an opportunity to apply what they've learned in the e-book. Helpful diagrams and text features, such as a glossary and index, are also included to improve content-area literacy and support STEM education.
Understanding geometry is very important when designing a backyard! Designers have to know how to measure the perimeter and area of design spaces. This vibrant title teaches readers about landscape architecture and design while encouraging them to practice their geometric measurements, like perimeter, area, diameter, radius, and angles. With the help of interesting images, easy-to-read text, related practice problems, STEM topics, and clear mathematical diagrams, this title makes geometry fun and simple, allowing readers to use their mathematical skills creatively!
Learn how designers work with two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes, measuring their surface area, volume, diameter, and radius, to create great package designs! Students will learn about familiar package designs while practicing their own measurement and STEM skills. With familiar images, easy-to-read text, simple practice problems, and clear mathematical diagrams, this title will leave readers more confident in their measurement skills while showing them how mathematics affects them and the products that they use every day!
Practice measuring surface area and volume while following the story of a family as they pack and move into a new house! Understanding how to measure two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes by radius, diameter, surface area, and volume can make packing a much easier, more efficient process! This title encourages readers to practice their measurement skills and shows them how they can put these skills to use outside of the classroom. With the help of familiar images, easy-to-read text, simple practice problems, and mathematical diagrams, readers will be able to improve their developing mathematical and STEM skills in a practical, useful way!
Write, simplify, and evaluate algebraic expressions to explore how quickly germs can spread! This informative title teaches children all about germs and how they spread, encouraging healthy habits, while allowing them to practice algebraic expression, exponential form, and distributive property. With eye-catching images, easy-to-read text, related practice problems, clear mathematical diagrams, STEM themes, and an accessible glossary and index, this book gives readers the necessary tools to feel comfortable writing, simplifying, and evaluating expressions!
Learn how scientists use algebraic expressions to explore the growth of amoebas, euglenas, and bacteria! This informative title challenges readers to master new mathematical concepts like algebraic expression and exponential form. After learning about the microscopic creatures that scientists study, readers can complete related practice problems to familiarize themselves with algebraic expressions. Featuring easy-to-read text, related practice problems, mathematical diagrams, STEM themes, and a glossary and index, this book gives readers the necessary tools to feel comfortable writing, simplifying, and evaluating expressions!
This vibrant science title gives readers insight into how they can form healthy habits. Be a healthier you!
Inspire students to get moving and be more active with this colorful science reader.
This engaging title tells the story of children who start a business to help people care for their pets. As the business grows, the children use bar, circle, and line graphs as visual representations of their business. These mathematical charts and diagrams help readers understand how to best improve a business. This story not only shows children how useful clear graphs can be outside of the classroom, but encourages them to see if they can start their own responsible businesses! Through this title's fun story, vibrant images, clear mathematical diagrams, easy-to-read text, and simple practice problems, readers will be engaged and encouraged to improve their graphing and STEM skills.
Learn how builders use perimeter and area to build towns and cities! Perimeter and area are important measurements that help builders design homes, parks, and more! This charming title teaches children how cities are built, while giving them great examples to practice calculating perimeter and area, improving their mathematical skills through STEM themes. With easy-to-read text, engaging practice problems, clear mathematical diagrams, and an accessible glossary, this title gives readers everything they need to make these calculations with ease. By the end of this book, readers will feel very familiar with perimeter, area, and grid patterns.
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!
Learn how volume helps aquarium designers figure out everything from the shapes and sizes of tanks to how much water is needed to fill them. Calculate volume to figure out how much food the animals at the aquarium need! With vibrant photos, math charts and diagrams, grade-appropriate text, and informational text features to help navigate the text, students will learn practical, real-world applications of math skills as they learn volume and build their STEM skills.
Did you know that angles are at the center of great basketball strategies? Angles are also a part of dribbling, shooting, passing, and rebounding the ball. Predicting angles can help you become a better basketball player! With vibrant photos, math charts and diagrams, grade-appropriate text, and informational text features to help navigate the text, students will learn practical, real-world applications of math skills as they are introduced to the concept of angles, and build their STEM skills.
Experience the intrigue of crime scene investigation! This book focuses on different types of data that investigators collect to solve a case--things like fingerprints, blood type, and DNA. You'll also have the opportunity to practice critical-thinking strategies that help you analyze all the data and crack the case! With vibrant photos, math charts and diagrams, grade-appropriate text, and informational text features to help navigate the text, students will learn practical, real-world applications of math skills as they learn data analysis and build their STEM skills.
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!
A pond may seem quiet and subdued, but this unique ecosystem is filled with active life cycles. Students learn what distinguishes a pond from other bodies of water, the plant and animal life within it, and how their life cycles contribute to the pond itself.
Readers learn all about tropical and temperate rainforests and the differences between these two unique biomes. Rainforests are filled with wonder and mystery, from the tall trees in the canopy to the dark and damp leaves on the forest floor. The plants and animals that inhabit these rainforests are varied and exotic. They depend on the rainforest, as does the rest of the world.
Hurricanes plague the tropics from June through November. Some years bring just a handful of storms. Other years, meteorologists run out of names because there are so many. Readers learn how and where these storms form and the dangers they pose to the land and people who live in Gulf and Atlantic coast regions.
As far as dangerous weather goes, tornadoes may be the most fierce and powerful of storms. Readers will learn how and where tornadoes hit, and how people protect themselves from life-threatening winds. While most people run away from tornadoes, storm chasers actually run after these swirling masses! Readers will be highly engaged from cover to cover as they learn the science behind these storms.
Readers learn all about wetlands and their complex interactions with plants and animals in this colorful title! Although wetlands don't necessarily need to be covered in water all year long, most areas are pretty wet. Whether they are freshwater or tidal, they play a key role in the health of the Earth. They provide homes for many different kinds of plants and animals that are well adapted for the soggy conditions.
