NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC KIDS is a fact-filled, fast-paced magazine created especially for ages 6 and up. With an award-winning combination of photos, facts, and fun, NG KIDS has captivated its more than one million readers for over 35 years. Articles and departments entertain and inspire readers to learn about their world with amazing information about animals, science, technology, archaeology, geography, and pop culture, plus jokes, games, activities in every issue.
As a scientist, you are a professional writer: your career is built on successful proposals and papers. Success isn't defined by getting papers into print, but by getting them into the reader's consciousness. Writing Science is built upon the idea that successful science writing tells a story. It uses that insight to discuss how to write more effectively. Integrating lessons from other genres of writing with those from the author's years of experience as author, reviewer, and editor, the book shows scientists and students how to present their research in a way that is clear and that will maximize reader comprehension.
The magazine that feeds minds Welcome to How It Works, the magazine that explains everything you never knew you wanted to know about the world we live in. Loaded with fully illustrated guides and expert knowledge, and with sections dedicated to science, technology, transportation, space, history and the environment, no subject is too big or small for How It Works to explain.
Disney Educational - Bill Nye The Science Guy: Plants
The diverse world of plants is the topic of this episode in the award-winning series Bill Nye the Science Guy. Despite the fact that plants are rooted to the ground, they are able to manufacture their own food, and some have interesting adaptations to keep from being eaten. Bill Nye introduces these plants and others, including ones that trap and eat insects. He brings his usual humorous touches to the program to keep the science information entertaining, including kid-pleasing graphics and odd camera angles.
Disney Educational - Bill Nye The Science Guy: Mammals
Bill Nye the Science Guy takes on mammals in this episode of the series that has kids laughing as they learn. Nye's experience as a standup comic gives his brand of science education a certain coolness, and young science students usually don't mind sitting through his programs. Bill Nye the Science Guy: Mammals offers definitions and discussions of what mammals are (they have hair, feed milk to their young, and generally stick around to take care of their babies, for example) ..
