Elementary school students who find science mystifying, daunting, and hard to understand will change their minds when they open this book. The authors have transformed fundamental scientific principles into an exciting adventure where they discover how plant and animal life interact within the Earth's ecosystem, how energy is converted into heat and motion, how matter exists in solid, liquid, and gaseous states, how light is reflected and refracted, how magnetism and electricity are related, how the Earth revolves around the Sun, how the Moon revolves around the Earth, how different kinds of rock were formed, and how the Earth's surface has been formed and shaped.
How the Earth Works - 60 Fun Activities for Exploring Volcanoes, Fossils, Earthquakes, and More
Earth science comes alive for children 6 to 9 through 60 engrossing games, activities, and experiments. Kids core sample a filled cupcake and discover plate tectonics by floating graham cracker continents on a molten mantle of molasses. They learn how heat changes rocks by seeing how separate ingredients disappear when they bake Rice Krispie Treats. More activities show what causes earthquakes and what kinds of buildings resist their force. Growing sugar and salt crystals, fossilizing plastic insects, and modeling a variety of volcanoes add to the learning and the fun. Eight of the activities are tasty as well as informative.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 3 December 2011
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Pandora's Curse
During World War II, in a secret Nazi submarine base, boxes made from looted wartime gold were hidden away. These "Pandora's boxes" contained an artifact so lethal that whoever possessed them held the power to unleash hell upon the Earth. And now they have been found by a man who will use them to hold the world hostage-unless Philip Mercer can stop him...
Rustle The Leaf's Earthday Book (Activity Book for Kids)
It doesn't sound like much, really: a 12-page booklet with a few comics, mazes, word puzzles and a colorful foldout poster. But Rustle the Leaf's Earth Day Book is grabbing the interest and attention of educational, religious and governmental organizations in the US, Canada and around the world. In fact, the booklet—an educational tool to help students learn about the environment as they celebrate Earth Day—has such appeal that more than 10,000 books were ordered in a single day.
"We're returning to Earth," Paul's father tells him. Paul is wildly excited, for all human beings on the planet Ganymede dream of going back to Earth some day. Then Paul finds out that he cannot take his robot Rex with him. Rex has been his constant companion for sixteen years. Leave him behind? Never! So begins a series of breathtaking adventures in space as Paul and his robot Rex attempt to outwit the forces that seek to separate them.
