Based on Pratt-Serafinis picture book favorite for rain forest study, A Walk in the Rainforest, this guide includes lessons about habitat, interdependency of species, the rain forest water cycle, native peoples, oxygen generation, and much more.
"The foliage is eaten by a mouse that's eaten by a bat that's eaten by a snake. This book explores the species and food chains and webs within a rain forest habitat, and discusses why these food chains and webs need to be protected."
Illustrated in full color. This die-cut book features a clock with movable hands, making this introduction to the hours a tick-tock treasure. Young time-tellers can move the hands to match the time on the clocks pictured on each page as they follow Thomas the Tank Engine and his train yard pals through a busy day. Clever clock illustrations and simple text also introduce the concepts of minut…
Author Rich Czyz is on a mission to revolutionize professional learning for all educators. In The Four O’Clock Faculty, Rich identifies ways to make PD meaningful, efficient, and, above all, personally relevant. This book is a practical guide that reveals why some PD is so awful and what you can do to change the model for the betterment of you and your colleagues.
Check out one of the biggest, fastest and most powerful means of transportation in the world with the Mega Book of Trains. The most amazing locomotives on earth are featured in this fascinating guide. You'll learn about the technology behind the Funicular Railway, the Monorail, and the Wuppertal Schwebebahn. Striking photographs and detailed diagrams show how these magnificent and complex machi…
Does your child love all things locomotive? Do they get excited by a freight or TGV? Then The Big Noisy Book of Trains is for them. Includes facts and brimming with pictures, the world of trains has never been so vibrant. From the very first locomotive to the Japanese bullet train, The Big Noisy Book of Trains covers it all and is the perfect introduction to trains for children 5 to 8 years …
Going Places is a series of colorful and informative books loaded with details about the various ways that people get around. In addition to a host of photographs clearly linked to simple text, each book includes graphs, charts, or maps that illustrate data and travel routes. Going by Train Young readers learn about commuter trains, subways, high-speed trains, and other passenger trains, along …
With inspiring and educational stories, Scholastic's Hello Reader series caters to the spectrum of reading abilities among beginning readers. My First Hello Readers use basic words to reinforce phonics and sight vocabulary. The books at this level offer punch-out flash cards plus six additional pages of skill-building activities. Levels 1 - 4 combine a greater vocabulary and longer sentence len…
Explorers Wanted to: trek through lion country... learn to scuba dive... uncover lost rainforest cities... and much more! Each book in this exciting new series challenges readers to an expedition into the unknown and is crammed with practical survival advice, real-life explorers' stories, fascinating natural history facts, and the author's own expedition sketches. Bringing to young readers the …