What do Galileo, Isaac Newton, Louis Pasteur, and Albert Einstein have in common? They've all ridden on the Magic School Bus, of course! Ms. Frizzle is back in action and she has a mission: her students need science fair projects - and fast. What better way to get ideas than to learn from some of the all-time greats? The class heads to the Walkerville Science Museum to see the exhibit on GREAT SCIENTISTS THROUGH THE AGES, where, suddenly, Galileo comes to life! He is about to make a great discovery, but he needs a ride home. Thank goodness Ms. Frizzle knows the way!
"Animal Adventures: Dinosaurs" will take you on a journey to explore the world of dinosaurs. Have fun while learning and see all of your favorites like you never have before, with colorful illustrations and fascinating facts, and then by building a diorama. Everything you need to delve into the world of dinos is right here. This unique set includes a book full of colorful illustrations and intriguing facts about dinosaurs, plus three-dimensional dinosaur models and a diorama with reusable stickers.Journey to the Age of Dinosaurs to learn everything you need to know about these remarkable creatures. "Animal Adventures: Dinosaurs" offers a unique learning experience as you meet them face-to-face.
The class finds Ms. Frizzle inside her closet-playing pinball!But this is no ordinary pinball machine-it's played with light pulses, not steel balls. The Friz has to light up the six colors of the rainbow to win the game, and the kids want to help her. So they take the Magic School Bus inside the pinball machine.Buckle up for this enlightening adventure and learn the secrets of color.
Weather is all around us, and it affects everyone--bothpositively and negatively. But it can be hard to understand,especially since it often changes so quickly.With Weather Lab, kidsages 8 and up can chart weather patterns, create a weather station,and make their own forecasts--just like meteorologists do! Thisbook comes with everything they need to perform 50 hands-onexperiments that will teach them about our weather, including atest tube with lid, thermometer and wind cups. Step by stepinstructions and diagrams will help them create mini tornadoes andbuild their own barometers, wind vanes, and rain gauges as theydiscover how air, water, and temperature can cause everything froma summer breeze to a hurricane.Weather Lab is the ultimate guide tolearning about the science behind our atmosphere--and the perfectkit for whipping up a storm of fun!
Read by the author 5 hours, 40 mintues 5 CD's Just in time for the holidays enjoy eight "Magic Tree House"chapter books in a special CD gift set. As an added bonus, listento an interview with the author and reader, Mary PopeOsborne. These eight stories, currently available as two retail volumes oncassette with a combines price of $36.00, are being offered nowalong with the interview in a 5-CD set at a special price of$30.00.
This spectacular,state-of-art atlas is the ultimate guide to the known Universe.Packed with dazzling images and unbelievable statistics,it also includes maps of everything form our Solar System to the outer edges of space.The oversize, full-colour pages feature: toplgraphical planetary maps breathtaking photos of galactic phenomena cutaway views of comets and meteorites seasomal constellation charts the latest data on space explarts more than 800maps and images
Ever since 1992, Mary Pope Osborne has been thrilling kidseverywhere with her delightfully exciting Magic Tree House series.The globetrotting escapades of time travelers Jack and Annie arebrimming with adventure and magic (not to mention some subtlyplaced lessons on history and geography). With a life likeOsborne's, it's only natural that she would be capable of bringingsuch wondrous stories to life. Osborne was brought up in a military family, and her parents'work led to a lifestyle marked by constant change. "By the time Iwas 15," she says on randomhouse.com, "I had lived in Oklahoma,Austria, Florida, and four different army posts in Virginia andNorth Carolina." While many kids would probably feel disoriented bysuch constant change, Osborne wouldn't have had it any other way."Moving was never traumatic for me, but staying in one place was.When my dad finally retired to a small town in North Carolina, Inearly went crazy with boredom. I craved the adventure and changingscenery of our military lif
In this title you will find over 1000 illustrations, plus factfiles, maps and diagrams explaining who's who in the dinosaur world. From life on earth before the dinosaurs, the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and different types of dinosaurs: to fossils, famous finds and dinosaur myths and legends.
Joanna Cole的大作,风靡全球的一套科学桥梁阅读读物――神奇校车再次出版。在书中,小读者可以跟着主人公一起进行探险,故事情节新鲜刺激,却富有科学性,对话俏皮幽默,在不经意间散落出各种知识,展现出一种严谨、新奇、而又充满乐趣的教学方式,孩子跟随着书中的小伙伴们一起体验原理、学会操作、懂得思考、爱上科学,满足他们与生俱来的求知欲。在不断的求知和探索中,孩子们能够领略到人类的渺小以及科学的强大,对自然抱有敬畏之心,从而慢慢培养他们的人文和科技素养。 这套神奇校车是手绘版,线条细腻,色彩柔和,全套书共六本,并包含时长接近3小时的CD,读者可以选择按书页有断续地朗读或者不间断朗读。 CD时长:2小时47分 《神奇校车》荣获了美国一系列奖项,包括: 全美受欢迎的儿童自然科学图书系列。
People want their homes to be comfortable and secure, aplace where they can happily raise their children and one dayretire. It's no different in the animal world! There are animalarchitects, animal builders, and even animal squatters — meet themall in 3-D Close Up: Animal Homes! With four awesome pop-upcross sections, this fascinating new book gives young readers achance to do in-depth investigations of some dazzling dwellings —in the trees, in the water, and underground — and meet the amazinganimals that live inside. Kids will love exploring intricate insectcities, squirrels' treetop dreys, a beaver lodge, and theunderground burrow of a meerkat family. Every page is bursting withengaging information, cool close-up photographs, and dramatic,highly detailed illustrations that bring the animal homes vividlyto life.