Un día en el zoológico (Day at the Zoo) (Spanish Version)

There is a contest at a school to design a new playground. The students use blocks to build their models. As they build, they use three-dimensional shapes. Some students build a train out of blocks for the younger students to play on. Can you guess which three-dimensional shape they use for the train's wheels? Read to find out which design wins.

A community center has many exciting activities to choose from. You can play games, swim, and even learn how to cook there. As you read, you can compare the size of a tennis racket to a ping pong racket, use cubes to measure the world's smallest snake, and even use feet to measure the length of a basketball court. What would you use to measure a snake?

Estos materiales ofrecen orientaciones y sugerencias para el tratamiento de la información en el contexto del currículo de las Ciencias Sociales, Geografía e Historia de la ESO; planteamientos didácticos y análisis de modelos de las fuentes escritas; experiencias y ejemplificaciones del comentario de textos históricos en el aula con un repertorio adaptado al alumnado, y por último una serie de textos diversos, agrupados por su temática, para trabajar directamente en el aula.

Addresses questions kids often wonder about, where there is usually no simple answer, offering different theories and opinions with examples and comparisons.

Texas has had some extraordinary people. This book covers some of them, such as Melinda Gates, astronaut Shannon Walker, and Bessie Coleman, the first African American female pilot. Age-appropriate text teaches readers about Texas's most important movers and shakers, while historical and contemporary images reinforce the book's key concepts.

La hermana mayor de Philip, Helen, se ha casado, y el debe mudarse con su hermanastra Lucy. Para sobrellevar su nueva vida, Philip decide crear una de esas ciudades magicas que antes construia con su anorada Helen. Pero una noche cae en un profundo sueno que le adentra en un mundo extrano.