Sueños & Desastres

Los faros han ayudado a los marineros a navegar durante siglos. Pero los faros no están construidos como solían ser. Descubra cómo las innovaciones como las computadoras y la energía solar han mejorado los faros con el tiempo. Creado en colaboración con la Institución Smithsonian, este libro de STEAM despertará la curiosidad sobre los temas de STEAM a través de ejemplos del mundo real. Presenta un desafío STEAM práctico que es perfecto para espacios de creación y que guía a los estudiantes paso a paso a través del proceso de diseño de ingeniería. Establezca conexiones...

Trabajadores que me cuidan (Workers Who Take Care of Me) builds critical literacy skills with this exciting Spanish-translated nonfiction reader. Engage students with fascinating content that will keep them enthralled from the first page to the last. Focusing on different types of workers, children will be introduced to all the people who work hard to take care of us. This informational text features simple phrases, exact text-to-image relationships, vivid photographs, and large font to encourage students to examine different professions, including doctors, police officers, and firefighters....

Simple text and photographs introduce USDA's MyPlate tool and present healthy fruit options for children.

★“Fascinating...An appealing resource sure to spark an interest in biomimicry, from casual readers to budding scientists. Recommended for all libraries.”—School Library Journal, starred review Did you know that lamps can be powered by glowing bacteria instead of electricity? That gloves designed like gecko feet let people climb straight up glass walls? Or that kids are finding ways to make compostable plastic out of banana peels? Biomimicry, the scientific term for when we learn from and copy nature, is a revolutionary way to look to nature for answers to environmental problems such...