Students explore probability and the measure of chance through true-or-false questions, multiple-choice questions, coin-tossing games, games using a spinner, and games played with dice.
Most readers will recognize the name, but their information might be limited to Thomas Alva Edison's most famous inventions, including the light bulb, phonograph, and motion picture camera. This brief
Makerspaces are all about teaching through collaboration. This title grabs the attention of young people who are musically as well as technically inclined by showing them that they can make their own
Chronicles the history of the American motorcycle manufacturer; profiles top models and includes information about their speed, performance, and appearance; describes how different motorcycles are use
Communication is a two-way street—we express and we receive information. Doing either without valuing the importance of each leads to a breakdown between ideas and people. This guidebook stresses the
Introduces readers to squirrels, including information on some of the different species of squirrel, their behavior, young, adaptation to urban environments, and how they live alongside people.
Prior to the existence of the Eighth Amendment, there was little to protect citizens of the English colonies from excessive bail, excessive fines, and cruel and unusual punishments. The enduring freed
Describes the use of poetic form and meter in poetry and looks at examples of the poetry of William Shakespeare to illustrate why patterns are important to poetry.
Explains representing numbers in the billions and describes the Hubble Space Telescope that was put into orbit in 1990 and the space images it relays to us.
Introduces electricity, discussing its static and current forms; the uses of batteries, generators, and power stations; and the importance of safety precautions.
The Big Book version of Inside the Human Body. This book explores the amazing workings of the human body while simultaneously helping students convert the data they encounter into scientific and expon
Introduces the achievements of Venus and Serena Williams, from their childhood and early careers in tennis to their tournament wins and their roles as competitors and sisters.
This fun paperback introduces the game of chess and its basic moves, then shows how to apply problem-solving skills to chess problems of varying difficulty. Includes detailed descriptions of each ches
Introduces the concept of probability and shows how it works when flipping coins, spinning a spinner, rolling dice, and picking marbles out of a bag, including how the odds change with different spinn
