Alexander Graham Bell

Which animals and plants can survive in a dry desert environment? Readers learn about the living things that make up desert food chains, including cacti, snakes, and scorpions. Colorful photographs of desert life make readers feel like they’re exploring new parts of this habitat with each turn of the page. Fact boxes provide additional information about the creatures that make up desert food chains, and a detailed food web shows how these food chains all come together. The desert is an extreme habitat, and readers will enjoy learning about the extreme plants and animals that live there.

A dictionary tailored for the Latin American market is an ideal supplement to the middle school curriculum and includes up-to-date definitions, example sentences, synonyms and antonyms, and more. Original.

The use of calendars dates back thousands of years. Why are we driven to record time, and what would happen if we did not? Who created the concept of calendars? Why do different cultures use different calendar systems? And why are calendars so important to us? It is about "time" we found out! Created in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, this Spanish-translated Smithsonian Informational Text builds reading skills while engaging students' curiosity about STEAM topics through real-world examples. Packed with factoids and informative sidebars, it features a hands-on STEAM challenge...

La lluvia es un fenómeno atmosférico que consiste en la precipitación de gotas de agua. La intensidad de las lluvias se mide en milímetros de agua caída, es decir, la altura de agua caída recogida en una superficie plana y medida en milímetros. Un milímetro de agua de lluvia equivale a 1 litro de agua por m2, que es otra forma de medir la cantidad de agua de lluvia. Muy pronto va a llover y los niños están listos para explorar y averiguar todo lo que ocurre cuando las negras y amenazantes nubes se juntan. ¿Te has detenido a pensar de dónde viene la lluvia o adónde va?, ¿cómo se ...