Have you ever wondered. What was the biggest dinosaur? What's the fastest plane ever built? Where's the tallest waterfall in the world? Lift the flaps to climb the tallest mountain, explore the depths of the ocean, peer into our solar system, and more. With links to specially selected websites for videos, photos and virtual tours.
The ultimate gift for animal-obsessed kids who want to know, definitively, which creatures are THE most extreme in all sorts of categories. What's the fastest and slowest animal? How about the fastest and slowest on land, or at sea, or in the air? What has the brightest glow, or the most powerful bite? What do they look like, and what else can these amazing animals do? Lift flaps to find all the answers.
Plan an underground house, design your own bridge and lots more in this entertaining write-in activity book, filled with ideas to brainstorm, puzzles to solve and objects to design. Includes downloadable templates and links to specially selected websites to find more architecture facts and activities.
Part of the best-selling "Understanding" series that brings to life the wide world of physics. Rather than explaining details about how to do physics, this book focuses on explaining what different branches of physics are about, how we know about them, and what mysteries remain for budding physicists to uncover. It doesn't shy away from the hard stuff, tackling black holes, quantum mechanics and even Einstein's theories of relativity.
TREOIR: CURSE ON THE ISLAND. Raised in Dublin, Tanzanian teen Jonah Odjinwahlia suffers from albinism. In many parts of Africa, people with the condition are said to have magical properties in their white skin. Witch doctors convince people taking a broth made from their body parts brings good luck, wealth, and success in business. When Jonah's petty criminal of a father plans to sell his 'cursed' son to traffickers for a small fortune, he is given refuge on an island by Donnacha, an ex-investigative reporter looking for a way to move on from the memory of his institutionalised wife. But Jonah's arrival on the sheltered Irish island reignites old superstitions, family feuds, and wild rumours. When Jonah goes missing, Donnacha throws caution to the wind and sets off on a perilous trek across Tanzania to hunt a witch doctor. Treoir: The Curse on the Island is a thrilling, twisting plot that reflects back at the reader the cultural norms and superstitions that legitimise our worst thoughts and behaviours.
Would you risk everything for a single wish? Nelson Hitchcock's life is forever changed when a stranger begs for help during a school trip to the museum. The reward is his heart's desire and Nelson's only wish is the return of his father, who mysteriously disappeared three years before.
When Darran Rees first drove northward toward Transylvania he felt he was being transported back in time. These remarkable landscapes were like visions of the past with such odd beauty and majesty that betrayed little of their recent history. Over the following fifteen years he was fortunate enough to continue that journey and indeed accompany Romania on its own journey as it unbuckled itself from the chains of its dictatorship and looked to an independent and brighter future. These images represent a record of this unique yet often misunderstood country, its exceptional people and their rare culture, family values and traditions. It shows a moment in time, a unique time in a unique country among extraordinary people.
Fysikk er studiet om universet og alt som finnes i det. Som en del av vår bestselgende «Store temaer for begynnere»-serien, er denne boken en døråpner inn til fysikkens verden. Fra de gåtefulle, usynlige kvantepartiklene til galaksenes former. I stedet for å beskrive detaljerte fysikkeksperimenter, fokuserer boken på hva ulike grener av fysikken handler om, hvordan vi kjenner til dem, hva kunnskaper om fysikk kan hjelpe oss med og hvilke mysterier som gjenstår å avdekke for fysikere in spe. Boken viker ikke unna de vanskelige temaene, og beskriver sorte hull, kvantemekanikk og til og med Einsteins relativitetsteorier. Få en spennende og reflekterende innføring i fysikken, med en sjarmerende miks av korte tekster og fargerike illustrasjoner. Passer for de litt eldre barna, 9-12 år, men definitivt også for ungdom, 12-16 år, som vurderer å ta fysikk som fag på videregående skole.
Fysik for begyndere lykkes med at åbne og afklare den til tider ubegribelige verden om de fysiske love. Bogen er ikke bange for at tage fat på de helt svære ting som sorte huller, kvantemekanik og Einsteins relativitetsteori. Men den gør det på en lettilgængelig og illustrativ måde, der er med til at pirre læserens interesse. Målgruppen spænder bredt - fra store børn til voksne, der søger en sjov og overskuelig genvej til at forstå fysikkens forunderlige verden.
This entertaining write-in book will improve your memory without ever feeling like a chore. It's packed with helpful memory techniques and exciting challenges - from secret spy missions to restarting starships or escaping labyrinths. Write, draw and colour in your answers as you exercise your memory to make it stronger than ever. Along the way, you'll also learn more about your brain and how it remembers things, with tips on how to boost your brainpower. Perfect for ages 7+. With answers at the back of the book.
Too often, mathematics and science are taught in isolation from each other and from meaningful problems that matter to students. This book draws on the authors’ experiences with teacher colleagues, including time spent in their classrooms co-developing and refining lessons. The core of their approach is to encourage learners to pursue solutions to everyday challenges through design-based learning cycles. Students use mathematical modeling to describe or summarize a phenomenon, predict which potential solutions may be successful, and/or to test actual performance against predictions. The authors emphasize connecting grade-appropriate science and math content standards and integrating literacy with evidence-based argument through design briefs and presentations. Teachers will learn how to support productive struggle and structure group learning that promotes equity, while teaching in the classroom or virtually as needed.The middle grades are a pivotal time to engage the next generation so that they are prepared to solve tomorrow’s challenges. Classroom teachers, pre-service educators, and faculty in teacher education programs can use Design Thinking in the Middle Grades as a foundational text for math, science, and integrated STEM teaching.Book Features: Identifies the content standards, objectives, and practices from math, science, and language arts for each lesson sample.Combines mathematical modeling with engineering design as a tool to facilitate deep learning.Offers a range of design activities to produce both artifacts and processes.Describes design activities focused on easily obtained, inexpensive, or found materials to avoid narrowing access in underfunded schools.
Too often, mathematics and science are taught in isolation from each other and from meaningful problems that matter to students. This book draws on the authors' experiences with teacher colleagues, including time spent in their classrooms co-developing and refining lessons. The core of their approach is to encourage learners to pursue solutions to everyday challenges through design-based learning cycles. Students use mathematical modeling to describe or summarize a phenomenon, predict which potential solutions may be successful, and/or to test actual performance against predictions. The authors emphasize connecting grade-appropriate science and math content standards and integrating literacy with evidence-based argument through design briefs and presentations. Teachers will learn how to support productive struggle and structure group learning that promotes equity, while teaching in the classroom or virtually as needed. The middle grades are a pivotal time to engage the next generation so that they are prepared to solve tomorrow's challenges. Classroom teachers, pre-service educators, and faculty in teacher education programs can use Design Thinking in the Middle Grades as a foundational text for math, science, and integrated STEM teaching.
In a kingdom of talking dogs their greatest criminal, Ramdar Kree, stands ready for execution. Before the sentence can be carried out however, he uses old magic to escape through a portal, forcing Wednesday and Pepper, the bravest of all the dogs, to follow after him. To their horror they find themselves in a strange realm where dogs are dumb and humans rule, a nightmare place...our world.
Behind the tent flaps of Trambino's Cirkis a secret world lies, a world of log boys and button men, of love triangles and vampire hunters, of beauty and horror. Beneath the Big Top, under the fierce glare of Trambino the warrior ringmaster, anything can happen. An evocative graphic novel from the creative team behind 'Tales of Stranggore' and 'Dogs'.
This colourful write-in book is packed with maths tips and puzzles, including doodling, dot-to-dots, mazes and more. It covers adding and subtracting, multiplying and dividing, times tables, fractions, measuring and shapes, with all the answers at the back of the book.
This engaging introduction to chemistry tackles the key concepts and big ideas in a friendly and accessible way. From atoms to molecules, discover the basic building blocks of the universe and find out how chemists use them to create amazing new medicines, materials and more. Follow step-by-step chemical reactions, explore the periodic table and learn all about chemistry's real-life applications from solving crimes to producing green energy.
VELKOMMEN TIL KROPSFABRIKKEN!– en kæmpestor bygning fuld af arbejdere og maskiner, der gør alt det, en rigtig krop gør.Kom med indenfor, og hør, hvordan og hvorfor du trækker vejret, hvad der sker med den mad, du spiser, og hvordan alle de forskellige dele af din krop snakker sammen.
