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How do you truly engage students in learning history? When students make personal connections to the subject, they’re much more motivated to learn. This Spanish book provides firsthand accounts of history that give personal insights into historical events. This primary source book explores California’s unique geography: the coastal region, the Central Valley, the mountain region, and the desert region. With a visually appealing layout, this book features captivating text, fun facts, sidebars, and time lines that help students grasp the essential concepts they need to know at their grade...

Learn how a designer's sketch becomes the fashion we wear and how a designer uses math and geometry to make their designs successful in this fashion-filled book! Including information about the fashion industry, clothing fabrics, patterns, and textures, readers learn all about the different aspects of the fashion industry. With a glossary, index, vivid images, informational text, and interesting facts, this Spanish-translated nonfiction book with engage students from beginning to end.

The need for speed is the motivating factor in this engaging, Spanish book. Readers learn the history of travel from the very slow to the supersonic and beyond, including everything in between. They learn and discover the factors that influence motion for all types of vehicles: land, air, and water alike. They also learn different ways to measure speed and read about energy uses for different vehicles. With greater speed comes greater risk. Readers learn how engineers are always seeking new and better ways to keep people safe as they travel faster and go farther.

Plants are living things that grow and change. Over time, plants have made remarkable adaptations to suit the habitats in which they live. Simple text and beautiful images highlight how plants have adapted to life in the Arctic, in aquatic environments, and in other habitats such as those in deserts and grasslands.

Our closest solar system is about 10 light years away. It has two main types of planets. Some are rocky and small, like planet Earth, while others are huge balls of gas, like Jupiter. Learn about how astronomers once thought our solar system was the one and only, to how they have now discovered hundreds of stars with planets orbiting them, which means there could be billions of solar systems in outer space! Just maybe, these alien worlds could host life, like our own amazing planet. This book allows students to use observations of the Sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be...

Estos materiales ofrecen orientaciones y sugerencias para el tratamiento de la información en el contexto del currículo de las Ciencias Sociales, Geografía e Historia de la ESO; planteamientos didácticos y análisis de modelos de las fuentes escritas; experiencias y ejemplificaciones del comentario de textos históricos en el aula con un repertorio adaptado al alumnado, y por último una serie de textos diversos, agrupados por su temática, para trabajar directamente en el aula.

DESNUDOS Y ACUARELAS como indica su título es un libro que articula su discurso sobre dos ejes: el de las instancias plásticas de cuerpos recordados y el de la melodía de distintos instantes que en la memoria llegan a confluir. Concebido como una exposición, los poemas funcionan como cuadros en los que se anula o se refleja la evanescente percepción de un cada vez más borrado yo, que ve la realidad desde una lágrima. Jaime Siles (Valencia, 1951) es Catedrático de Filología Latina en la Universidad de Valencia. Premio Teresa de Ávila 2003 y Premio de las Letras Valencianas 2004,...