Una ciudad que se hunde: Read-Along eBook

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 biography focuses on the life and times of Junípero Serra, the Franciscan missionary who created missions that stretched from San Francisco to San Diego. 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 ...

This nonfiction book explores the history, culture, customs, and beliefs of California's American Indian tribes including the Chumash, Tongva, Hupa, Yokuts, Quechan, and Coso tribes. Detailed primary source images in conjunction with Spanish text provide 3rd grade students with an inviting reading and learning experience as they build their social studies knowledge. This book includes basic informational text features including a glossary, an index, table of contents, and reader's guide. Students will be intrigued by Native American history with this fascinating nonfiction Spanish book.

Learn how streets are fixed, sidewalks get added, and new schools are built with this Spanish nonfiction book. Perfect for young readers, the book includes a fiction story related to the topic, a glossary, an additional project, useful text features, and engaging sidebars. This 28-page full-color Spanish book describes the many ways individuals can make changes in their communities. It also covers essential civics topics such as leadership and voting, and includes an extension activity for grade 2. Perfect for the classroom, at-home learning, or homeschool, to explore voting, local...

When it's hot outside, what can you do to stay cool? People have found many ways to cool off and cool down. How cool is that? Created in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, this STEAM book will ignite a curiosity about STEAM topics through real-world examples. It features a hands-on STEAM challenge that is perfect for makerspaces and that guides students step-by-step through the engineering design process. Make STEAM career connections with career advice from actual Smithsonian employees working in STEAM fields. Perfect for English language learners, this Spanish book builds young ...

"Breve explicación del propósito y uso de este libro. Antes que nada, lo primero que debemos dejar bien claro es que este Libro no es, en modo alguno, un diccionario lingüístico. Esto, que a simple vista pareciera ser contradictorio, ciertamente no lo es, ya que ni por su forma ni por su contenido ha pretendido regirse por las normas o modelos tradicionales de los diccionarios que todos conocemos y usamos; y porque además, siendo radicalmente honestos, no ha sido escrito por alguien que pretenda asumirse como lingüista (por lo menos, no un lingüista como algunos que conocemos ), ni...

"Dino" Don Lessem brings readers face-to-face with various dinosaur species, detailing their habitats, way of life and how they became extinct. An acclaimed dinosaur expert, Don Lessem has written more than 30 children's books, writes a popular dinosaur column in Highlights magazine, and was an adviser for Jurassic Park. Take a trip through dinosaur time to meet these sea giants face-to-face: The Archelon was similar to a turtle, but its shell was made of crossed rib bone covered in rubbery skin! The Mososaurs had huge pointy jaws and grew to be fifty feet long! The Ichthyosaurs looked a lot...

Combinando la filosofía y el arte de épocas y géneros diversos, Danto ofrece una panorámica de la universalidad de la producción estética, a medio camino entre la monografía filosófica y la meditación memorística, poniendo en tela de juicio la creencia popular según la cual el arte es un concepto indefinible. Danto sostiene que una obra de arte se define siempre por dos criterios esenciales, el significado y la materialización, a los que se les suma un tercer criterio, el de la interpretación que cada espectador aporta a esa obra.