Un día en la vida de un bombero (A Day in the Life of a Firefighter) 6-Pack

Think you'd like to be a fire fighter? Learn about the special equipment fire fighters use, their role in community safety, and their lives at the station. This book features a comprehensive timeline of the history of firefighting from its origins in ancient Rome through firefighting practices of today plus vocabulary related to fire fighters and fire safety.

Integrate science, history, and math into literacy lessons with these high-interest, Spanish-translated books. Topics such as space exploration, endangered animals and money management are designed to engage and inform students. Sophisticated graphics, interactive text features promote critical thinking hand help students build vocabulary and increase visual literacy skills.

Come find out what professional Crime Scene investigators do to solve a crime in this Spanish-translated nonfiction book! With detailed images and fascinating facts, readers learn about forensic science, criminal investigative evidence, and crime scene searches. This book includes an interview with a real-life CSI and a glossary, index, and list of useful sources. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.

Kids often play with magnets, yet they don't learn how these playthings work for many years. Practical knowledge from their play can help them learn more about magnetism, and so can this book. Specially written for those with reading challenges or readers looking for a review, the main text covers important vocabulary, magnetic fields, and a discussion of why metals and magnets come together. Diagrams and succinct fact boxes offer additional ways to learn each concept and explain some ideas in greater detail.

Meet six women who did great things. They were leaders in politics, civil rights, healthcare, science, and sports. They helped and inspired others. All of them followed their dreams. Discover the journeys they took. This inspiring Spanish book introduces second grade students to the lives of notable women including Marie Curie, Clara Barton, Wilma Rudolph, Rosa Parks, and more. Engaging images in conjunction with easy-to-read text and basic text features provide readers with an inviting reading and learning experience.

Tras acompañar a H. W. Bates en su exploración por el Amazonas (de 1848 a 1852), Alfred Russel Wallace emprende la exploración del archipiélago malayo con el objetivo de avanzar en los descubrimientos sobre la selección natural de las especies. De resultas de este viaje (1854-1862), y seis años después, Wallace publica The Malay Archipielago (1869), obra cumbre de la literatura de viajes y un referente de los libros de ciencias del siglo XIX. [Resumen del libro].

En medio de la naturaleza descansaba una piedra. Y la piedra era muchas cosas, dependiendo de quién la miraba y visitaba. Podía ser un refugio o esconder mortales peligros. Podía ser un lugar de reunión o un trono para sentarse. Podía ser infranqueable o insignificante. Pero lo importante es que ahí donde descansaba, pasaba la vida. En este álbum ilustrado que recuerda a autores como Lane Smith o Philip C. Stead, Brendan Wenzel permite que la naturaleza fluya alrededor de una única piedra y convierte su poema en una pasarela exquisita de animales, plantas, estaciones y cambios de...