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 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...

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...

With life-like illustrations and simple text, books in this series introduce children to different dinosaurs and the unique characteristics. Children learn the features of each dinosaur, what they ate, and whether they were predator or prey to other dinosaurs. The books also introduce fossils and how they play a role in our knowledge of dinosaurs' existence.

"Some things are so huge or so old that it's hard to wrap your mind around them. But what if we took these big, hard-to-imagine objects and events and compared them to things we can see, feel and touch? Instantly, we'd see our world in a whole new way." So begins this endlessly intriguing guide to better understanding all those really big ideas and numbers children come across on a regular basis. Author David J. Smith has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one...

Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Learn about the different places that people call home--from apartments to cottages and castles to farmhouses. With bright, vivid photos and easy-to-read informational text, this Spanish-translated nonfiction title introduces readers to different cultures' definitions of "home."

Una reflexión teórico práctica sobre el papel que juegan la Historia de la Ciencia y la Filosofía de la Ciencia, en la enseñanza y aprendizaje de las Ciencias. El autor sostiene que hasta ahora ha predominado en la enseñanza, la adquisición de conocimientos y propone introducir el contexto de descubrimiento como un factor sumamente eficaz el aprendizaje de las ciencias.