Indígenas de California (California Indians)

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 history of California’s Native American tribes: the Tongva, Yokuts, Yana, and Yahi. 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...

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...

En 1955, poco antes de su muerte, Albert Einstein rescata un cuaderno de notas que escribió diez años antes, cuando se lanzaron sobre Japón las bombas atómicas de Hiroshima y Nagasaki. En ese cuaderno, Einstein cuenta cómo su vocación por la ciencia se despertó el día en que su padre le regaló una brújula y empezó a preguntarse por qué apuntaba siempre en la misma dirección. El logro más conocido de Einstein fue su teoría de la relatividad, que transformó nuestro concepto del espacio y del tiempo. Pero cuando recibió el Premio Nobel de Física en 1921 no fue por esa teoría,...

"In search of "Don Quixote" from other side of the estimate that there are no gaps between the various fields of knowledge and literary productions that are specific manifestations of a global representation system historically determined. So, it seemed necessary to put Don Quixote in its various circumstances, linking it to the contexts under which it has set, especially regarding attitudes and references involved, not to mention the cultural particularities that arise in him, both scholarly and popular. Hence, the approaches used, of a historical, anthropological and literary, to go for the ...

Even as the world changes, skilled labor will always be needed. There's nothing quite like the ability to create things with your skills and your own hands. Carpenters use their skills to build things we use every day, including items such as furniture, buildings, and bridges. They read building plans, choose materials, design, and create. This book teaches kids that to become a carpenter, you have to use a lot more than a hammer and nails; you need your brain too. Photographs and diagrams enable readers to make key connections with the text.

¿Cómo es tener a una profetisa como abuela? Ella Robinson lo sabe. Su abuela era Elena de White. En este libro, Ella cuenta cómo era Elena de White como abuela y como persona. Aunque Dios le dio grandes responsabilidades a la Sra. White, aun así encontraba tiempo para ser la clase de abuela con la que cualquier niña soñaría. Sabía que una niñita cansada disfrutaría de una manzana, una pastilla de menta o de ser ayudada a recortar una ilustración de una revista. Robinson también relata experiencias interesantes de la vida de la Sra. White. Cuenta cómo Dios escogió a Elena de...