Copy for Spring, 2001 Catalog


How Can I Experiment With ...?

• Offering young students a solid foundation in science learning, this Core Knowledge-based series features an easy-to-read text matched with full-color photographs, fact-filled captions, instructional graphics and compelling side bars

• Provides a wealth of hands-on experiments designed to help students in grades 1-4 experience and understand the important physical laws examined in the series

• Educators will appreciate the bolded glossary terms throughout the text, relevant quotes, helpful glossary, list of further reading materials (including websites), and index included in each title

Kids wonder about things. Like, where does light come from? Where does it get its color?  How do force and motion get started? Why does it take a truck longer to stop than a car? How does sound get recorded? What is electricity made of? Where are atoms found? This engaging science series gives kids understandable answers to all these questions and more. The clearly written text is combined with an abundance of educational photos, graphics, and easy-to-do experiments that both demonstrate and instruct, making this series valuable across the elementary science strands.  

Amazing Animals

• Introduces young students to a fascinating, diverse collection of animal facts, bolstering standards-in-learning-based science and language arts curricula

• Stunning full-color animal photographs and lively graphic design elements vibrantly illustrate the large, child-centered text

• Provides students with a wealth of information for animal-related class assignments, projects, and reports

This highly informative animal series will captivate young students with its easy-to-read language and magnificent array of animal photographs.  Exploring various physical and behavioral aspects of the animal world, the individual titles cover how animals live together in groups, why they're colored the way they are, how their eyes work to help them survive, what methods they use to hunt, how they move around and defend themselves, and much more.