Jackie Robinson

Through bright images, charts and graphs, and Spanish-translated informational text, this book provides readers with enlightening facts about what it takes to work in this exciting and unique profession. Featuring a glossary of terms, an index, a list of helpful websites, and an interview with a real-life deep sea fisher, this text will engage children from cover to cover!

Having a job and earning money are a part of everyday life for most people, especially adults. The concept seems fairly straightforward: one works to earn. This volume discerns the difference between a job and a career, as well as how a job can develop into a career. Readers will learn why a community's economy needs jobs, how paying someone to do a job helps the person who is paying them, and even about job loss and its consequences. The text also explains different jobs and their effects on the economy, such as those of professional, production, arts, and government and military jobs.

MATHEMATICAL WORKSHOP - Offers materials with which the pupil incorporates Mathematics to the knowledge of real life. The game-like character of the activities makes of them a source of interest and pleasure for the students. Conceptual contents, procedural ways and attitudes, attending to diversity; students' evaluation; materials and educational activities are developed.

A young girl explains how she and her diverse group of friends are all different from each other. In this first-person nonfiction narrative, vibrant photographs reinforce the idea of a community of students who respect each other and live in harmony. A picture-word glossary is included.