Plants and Animals (eBook)


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Developed by leading science educator and former president of the National Science Teacher's Association, Ed Ortleb, "Plants and Animals" offers curriculum-oriented worksheets that provide a focused unit of information on each subject. No teacher preparation is required to use the pages. Activities include coloring, cutting, pasting, sequencing, matching, drawing, games, and puzzles. Extension activities and background information included in teacher guide.




It's About Time (eBook)


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Help children measure and tell time by the sun, the clock and the calendar; and learn why there are 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week and 365 days in a year. Here's a cross-curriculum approach to time with learning activities that bring together history, science, language arts and math. A comprehensive look at time from the ancient civilizations who first tried to understand, arrange and measure it - to modern society where we organize our lives around the clock!




Word Power Grades 4-5 (eBook)


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Each book in the Word Power series provides 22 activities which introduce more than 60 challenging new words chosen from popular literature at the designated level. This mode of selection expands the conventional basal vocabularies and ensures the usefulness of words learned. Three two-page reviews reinforce learning. Activity pages introduce new words in context. Reinforcement is provided in student activities matching words with their meanings, aphabetizing words, matching words with their antonyms, and completing puzzles. All lessons are teacher-created. The teaching guide includes a list of source books for each level.




Weather Wise! (eBook)


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Make thunder in a can and lightning in a pan, watch the wind at work, learn snow facts and folklore and much, much more! In 10 easy-to-follow chapters, children in grades 1-4 are introduced to the many faces of weather, investigating their environment and making exciting discoveries along the way! Each chapter features indoor and outdoor learning opportunities from experiments and sky watching to discovery centers and extension activities. The hands-on learning tasks are accompanied by lively scientific facts, trivia and lore, and the unique format enables educators to connect weather themes to all areas of the curriculum. Here's a complete approach to learning that opens the doors to discovery and is guaranteed to make children "weather wise."




Parenting Beyond Belief- Abridged Ebook Edition


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Foreword by Michael Shermer, Ph.D. Contributors include Penn Jillette, Julia Sweeney, and Dr. Donald B. Ardell This is an abridged edition of the print classic. It does not include essays by Richard Dawkins or Stephen Law. Please consult the print edition for these essays. It's hard enough to live a secular life in a religious world. And bringing up children without religious influence can be even more daunting. Despite the difficulties, a large and growing number of parents are choosing to raise their kids without religion. In Parenting Beyond Belief, Dale McGowan celebrates the freedom that comes with raising kids without formal indoctrination and advises parents on the most effective way to raise freethinking children. With advice from educators, doctors, psychologists, and philosophers as well as wisdom from everyday parents, the book offers tips and insights on a variety of topics, from "mixed marriages" to coping with death and loss, and from morality and ethics to dealing with holidays. Sensitive and timely, Parenting Beyond Belief features reflections from such freethinkers as Mark Twain, Bertrand Russell, and wellness guru Dr. Don Ardell that will empower every parent to raise both caring and independent children without constraints.




Kingdoms of Life - Animals (eBook)


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Milliken's Kingdoms of Life series is aligned with national science standards and reflects current teaching practices. Each book includes approximately 50 black and white reproducible pages, 12 full-color transparencies (print books) or PowerPoint slides (eBooks), comprehension questions and lab activities for each unit, an answer key, a glossary of bolded terms, a timeline of biological discovery, a laboratory safety guide, as well as a national standards correlation chart. Animals details the anatomy and behavior of the kingdom with the greatest cellular complexity. It includes both many-celled and single-celled organisms (such as protozoans). Animals differ from plants in having cells without cellulose walls, in lacking chlorophyll and the capacity for photosynthesis, in requiring more complex food materials (as proteins), in being organized to a greater degree of complexity, and in having the capacity for spontaneous movement and rapid motor responses to stimulation.




Let's Visit the Zoo! A Children's eBook with Pictures of Zoo Animals and Baby Animals (A Child's 0-5 Age Group Reading Picture Book Series)


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Let's Visit the Zoo! A Children's eBook with Pictures of Zoo Animals and Baby Zoo Animals (A Child's 0-5 Age Group Reading Picture Book Series) has been designed to be the first step in helping your child build their vocabulary. Included in each book is a number of high quality images of very cute zoo animals and baby zoo animals that your child will enjoy looking and reading about for months. In this book your child will be learning about which animals live at the zoo. My books use simple one or two sentence facts which is accompanied by a relevant picture of the animal. This makes the perfect first word book to share because young children will love reading along while being encouraged to start using their words to read along. This is an excellent and fun educational resource to start your child off with. No more having to buy complex and ugly picture books. You child will also enjoy getting to use the family tablet for fun time which is also learning time. The Let's visit series has been designed for simple an easy reading particularly aimed at the 0-5 age group, but it can be used for any beginner readers who is interested in zoo animals. This children’s book contains high quality images of zoo animals. It has been optimized to look great on all devices including the large screen tablets. With the number of great reviews I have been getting I feel that my "Let's Visit" book series is one of the best new children’s book series of 2014 to hit the e-book market. Download your copy today! TAGS baby animals, childrens animal books, Fun Children's Picture Book, 0-5 Age Group, Baby 0-2, Zoo book, Zoo animals, animal children books, monkey, gorilla, zebra, ape, picture book, kids book, animal book, zoology,Juvenile Nonfiction / Animals / Zoos, Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / General, Juvenile Nonfiction / Animals / Baby Animals, Zoology & animal sciences, Pets (Children's / Teenage), Biologie/Zoologie




EBOOK: Biology


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Committed to Excellence in the Landmark Tenth Edition. This edition continues the evolution of Raven & Johnson’s Biology. The author team is committed to continually improving the text, keeping the student and learning foremost. We have integrated new pedagogical features to expand the students’ learning process and enhance their experience in the ebook. This latest edition of the text maintains the clear, accessible, and engaging writing style of past editions with the solid framework of pedagogy that highlights an emphasis on evolution and scientific inquiry that have made this a leading textbook for students majoring in biology and have been enhanced in this landmark Tenth edition. This emphasis on the organizing power of evolution is combined with an integration of the importance of cellular, molecular biology and genomics to offer our readers a text that is student friendly and current. Our author team is committed to producing the best possible text for both student and faculty. The lead author, Kenneth Mason, University of Iowa, has taught majors biology at three different major public universities for more than fifteen years. Jonathan Losos, Harvard University, is at the cutting edge of evolutionary biology research, and Susan Singer, Carleton College, has been involved in science education policy issues on a national level. All three authors bring varied instructional and content expertise to the tenth edition of Biology.




Biology Ebook


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Biology Ebook




Sloth Babies


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Read about the slow, sleepy sloth babies and the healthy meals that zookeepers provide for them. This level 3 guided reader book includes intriguing facts and adorable photos. Students will develop word recognition and reading skills while learning about how these baby animals learn and grow, what they eat, and how they socialize with each other. Book includes table of contents, glossary, index, author biographies, sidebars, and word list for home and school connection.