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Author
Publisher
Nomad Press
Language
English
Description
"Simple Machines! introduces kids to the concept of mechanical advantage and harnesses kid-power by inviting them to build machines of their own design. This book also opens eyes and minds to the diversity of machines in their lives, and sparks the imagination with challenge, humor, and achievable projects"--Publisher.
Publisher
DK/Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
"¡Las mates no son aburridas¡ La clave está en cómo enseñarlas. Con este libro los niños pueden jugar, hacer proyectos entretenidos y manualidades divertidas mientras aprenden matemáticas fácilmente. Cada uno de los proyectos de este libro viene acompañado de fotografías y sencillas instrucciones paso a paso que ayudarán a cualquier niño a asimilar conceptos sin darse cuenta. Mates divertidas presenta actividades que cubren todos los aspectos...
Author
Publisher
Storey Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Heatproof, transparent, and durable, the mason jar is a science lab just waiting to be discovered. Unlock its potential with 40 dynamic experiments for budding scientists ages 8 and up. Using just a jar and a few ordinary household items, children learn to create miniature clouds, tiny tornadoes, small stalactites, and, of course, great goo and super slime! With a little ingenuity, the jar can be converted into a lava lamp, a water prism, a balloon...
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
How scientists find out how things work: First a scientist pulls together all the observations about something. Next, he or she thinks up a question that the observations don't explain. Then a hypothesis, that which someone believes to be the correct answer to the question is formed. It must be a statement that can be tested. Next, an experiment is made to test the hypothesis in which everything that happens is written down. Finally the scientist...
Author
Series
Science Squad volume 2
Publisher
Jolly Fish Press, an imprint of North Star Editions, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Anthony Briggs hates pigeons, and for good reason. Thanks to his funny way of walking and his leg braces, his classmate TJ started calling him Pidge, a nickname hed love to dump. So when the Science Squad recruits students for a project to solve why pigeons come in so many different colors, Anthony is anything but interested . . . until he learns that the reward is spending a night at the Natural History Museum. He signs up in a flash, and ends up...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Appears on these lists
2021 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 5 & 6
Books You May Have Missed 2020: Combined
TAB 2022: High School
Books You May Have Missed 2020: Combined
TAB 2022: High School
Description
Cash, Fitch, and Bird Thomas are three siblings in seventh grade together in Park, Delaware. In 1986, as the country waits expectantly for the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger, they each struggle with their own personal anxieties. Cash, who loves basketball but has a newly broken wrist, is in danger of failing seventh grade for the second time. Fitch spends every afternoon playing Major Havoc at the arcade on Main. And Bird, his twelve-year-old...
Author
Series
Publisher
Jolly Fish Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Ever since Bertie moved to Texas, everything is going wrong: the Science Squad kids avoid him, their monarch butterfly project proves surprisingly hard, and something strange is happening with the few specimens they do find.
15) Muddle school
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Middle school is tough for Dave. He spends most of his time drawing and living in his own imaginative world. And he's terrified that his classmates will find out and think he's even weirder than they do already. But an extraordinary thing happens when Dave and his friend build a time machine for their science project. Dave travels back to the first day of school (or so he thinks) and is given the opportunity to do a complete reset. Can he do everything...
Author
Publisher
Collins, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Celebrating the idea that anything boys can do, girls can do better, a guide to adventure for girls of all ages includes such chapters as "Fourteen games of tag," "How to negotiate a salary," "Math tricks," and "Daisy chains and ivy crowns."
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
Dewey Jenkins wants to have the top science project in class to avoid summer school and win a state-of-the-art virtual reality video game, but after his friend Ferg accidentally breaks the console, they accidentally trigger the device, finding themselves transported inside a video game.
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"It's science fair time at Metropolis High, and the DC Super Hero Girls are very excited--except for Zee Zatara. Magic is her life, and science seems so dull in comparison. When she tries to help her friends with their projects, things keep going wrong. Is her magic causing the science to go haywire? Actually, science is just like being part of a superhero team: when you combine the right ingredients, it's magic."--
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