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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...

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 focuses on the creation of the Transcontinental Railroad. 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 level. Packed with information and primary source maps, images, and...

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.

La presente exposición trata de rendir homenaje a Mário Pedrosa a través de una selección de arte brasileño e internacional que responde a cuestiones artísticas trabajadas por él en diferentes momentos de su producción intelectual. En la muestra se plantea un modelo de historia del arte abierto y plural --no lineal--, es decir, no como una secuencia de estilos y lenguajes superpuestos sino como una serie de propuestas a través de las cuales se alcance una comunicación eficaz entre el artista y su espectador.

Se conoce con el nombre de «apócrifos» todos aquellos textos que por una razón u otra no han sido incluidos a lo largo del tiempo entre los libros sagrados canónicos del judaísmo y el cristianismo, cuyo establecimiento definitivo culminó (por lo que concierne a la Iglesia católica) en el Concilio de Trento (1546). De índole sumamente variada, narran desde vidas y episodios de los más diversos personajes de ambos testamentos hasta textos sapienciales. No pocas veces versan sobre etapas o puntos oscuros de la vida de Jesús y sus discípulos, no se pliegan a la doctrina oficial y son...

Explores The Machines Used And The Physics Involved That Make Moving From One Level To Another In A City Environment Easier.

Computer science is all around us, at school, at home, and in the community. This book gives readers the essential tools they need to understand the computer science concept of debugging. Brilliant color photographs and accessible text will engage readers and allow them to connect deeply with the concept. The computer science topic is paired with an age-appropriate curricular topic to deepen readers' learning experience and show how debugging works in the real world. In this book, readers will investigate what's wrong with a circuit and find out how to fix the problem. This nonfiction book is ...