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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.

Make patterns fun at recess time! This exciting title has been translated into Spanish and helps young readers recognize repeating patterns all around through helpful charts and familiar images of recess time. Children will better understand early STEM themes through the help of simple, applicable examples of patterns. This title will engage young readers with games and featured "You Try It!" problems!

Examines the nature of inclined planes and wedges, how they can reduce the amount of force necessary to perform work, and ways in which they are used.

La historia de los inventores es apasionante, sabemos muy poco de aquellos genios y sus mentes prodigiosas, ellos cambiaron el Mundo y escribieron las páginas más brillantes de la Historia. Sabían que la bombilla no la inventó Thomas Alva Edison, y que la radio no la inventó Marconi, y el teléfono, ¿sabrian decirme quién inventó el teléfono?, la mayoría de nosotros diría que fue Graham Bell, y la máquina de vapor, seguramente, diríamos que fue James Watt, pues ninguno de ellos fueron los verdaderos inventores, con Academia de Inventores descubriremos a los verdaderos genios que...

En estas memorias ficticias asistimos como testigos a una vida entregada a la danza y participamos de las experiencias más íntimas, preciosistas y dolorosas de su protagonista. Con el telón de fondo de la ciudad del Neva, sus palacios, teatros y avenidas, se suceden sus reflexiones sobre la ambición y la competitividad, la fama y el sacrificio, el abandono del país de origen por motivos profesionales y culturales, las relaciones personales truncadas por una profesión absorbente, el placer y el deseo y, sobre todo, ese tema innombrable para las mujeres: la decadencia del cuerpo por el...

Celebrating the life, growth, and development of baby animals, Starting Out narrates the tale of growing up in the wild. This series--now in Spanish as well as English--employs simple language and a unique first-person perspective to introduce foundational biological concepts as it follows the adorable animal through the start of its young life. The straightforward text and large photos of the animal in its natural environment will both entertain and enlighten as readers learn how the animal's physical features, diet, habitat, and familial relationships play a role in its growth and...