It's time to go where no human and few robots have gone before. It's time for Deep Space Discovery. This series explores everything from the sun and other stars to the vast galaxies they make up. With up-to-date content, infographics, and closely leveled text, this series will have reluctant readers reaching for more.
It's time to go where no human and few robots have gone before. It's time for Deep Space Discovery. This series explores everything from the sun and other stars to the vast galaxies they make up. With up-to-date content, infographics, and closely leveled text, this series will have reluctant readers reaching for more.
It's time to go where no human and few robots have gone before. It's time for Deep Space Discovery. This series explores everything from the sun and other stars to the vast galaxies they make up. With up-to-date content, infographics, and closely leveled text, this series will have reluctant readers reaching for more.
Surviving an Alien Attack will mean understanding the ridiculous situation and require some crazy out-of the box thinking and suggestions. This book and its tool kit meet up to leave readers rolling on the floor in laughter as a seemingly rogue author guides them through worst-case scenarios. Includes real-life situations, fun facts, and critical thinking questions.
Are there white holes in space? Who said space and time are the same? Why do wormholes exist? How fast does light travel? What if you could time travel?
Learn how to create algebraic equations while traveling through our solar system! Introduce students to variables, expressions, and equations in this exciting Spanish-translated e-book about the night skies. This e-book challenges students to learn more advanced mathematical and STEM skills, using exciting astronomy examples to keep readers engaged. In this digital resource, readers will practice familiar mathematical skills, like addition and subtraction, in a new way by forming equations! With eye-catching photos, easy-to-read text, and clear practice problems, this title makes mathematical concepts that could be seen as intimidating seem simple and fun instead!
Learn how to create algebraic equations while traveling through our solar system! Introduce students to variables, expressions, and equations in this exciting title about the night skies. This book challenges students to learn more advanced mathematical and STEM skills, using exciting astronomy examples to keep readers engaged. Readers will practice familiar mathematical skills, like addition and subtraction, in a new way by forming equations! With eye-catching photos, easy-to-read text, and clear practice problems, this title makes mathematical concepts that could be seen as intimidating seem simple and fun instead!
Telescopes and high-tech equipment help astronomers explore deep space. This captivating title introduces readers to some of the most notable scientists who helped develop technology that allows for space exploration, such as Galileo Galilei, Edwin Hubble, Annie Cannon, George Ellery Hale, Lyman Spitzer, and Jocelyn Bell Burnell. The vibrant, stunning images and easy-to-read text will have readers engaged and eager to learn more about such topics as interstellar matter, pulsars, neutron stars, white dwarfs, and astrophysics! Readers are encouraged to explore astronomy even further with the featured lab activity!
From Nicholas Copernicus to Isaac Newton, people have wondered about and studied astronomy for many years! Through vibrant images, easy-to-read text, and a hands-on lab activity, readers will be captivated as they learn about astronomers such as Galileo Galilei, Carl Sagan, and Henrietta Swan Leavitt and how their work made impacts on the field of astronomy. With a glossary and index readily available, readers will be sure to have the tools they need to better understand the content.
Come along and explore the wonders of our solar system in this exciting title! Featuring a variety of stunning, vivid photos, helpful charts and graphs, and easy-to-read text, this book will have readers engaged from beginning to end as they learn about the sun, the eight planets in our solar system, the Milky Way Galaxy, constellations, dwarf planets, asteroids, and comets! An accessible glossary and index gives readers the tools they need while the featured lab activity provides a stimulating hands-on approach to science!
Space can be weird. How do planets form? What are black holes? In Weird Science: Space, readers will explore the science behind how outerspace works. This high-interest series is written at a low readability to aid struggling readers. Educational sidebars include a science activity, a spotlight biography, fast facts, and an unsolved mystery! A table of contents, glossary of keywords, index, and author biography are included.
When Neil Armstrong set foot upon the moon in 1969, it was the end result of an effort that involved several years, billions of dollars, and hundreds of thousands of people. The First Moon Landing examines this historic event from multiple perspectives, including those of Armstrong himself, computer programmer Margaret Hamilton, and engineer Tom Kelly. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a table of contents, infographics, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
What are UFOs? Are they real? What do they look like? Have aliens visited Earth? Explore these questions and read "The Valley of the Zombies," a thrilling story about aliens invading Earth.
Scientists want to know more about comets. They decide to catch one. A spacecraft travels for ten years to reach the comet. What will scientists learn from the mission?
Mr. Flinn's best students go to the space museum a few hours away from Tellis, their planet. But Mr. Flinn is fed up with them. They argue. And they don't get along. They certainly aren't setting an example for the best and brightest Tellis has to offer. But on the way home, Mr. Flinn is knocked out when their self-driving space bus is hit by a space rock, which knocks out the engine. The eight sixth graders have to figure out how to work together, especially when they learn something more sinister than a rock disabled their bus.
Each Flash Points: Liftoff! eShort is a single chapter from the full Flash Points: Liftoff! title, packaged as a mini eBook. Flash Points: Liftoff! eShorts include Sputnik, Apollo 11, Challenger, and Spirit & Opportunity.
Each Flash Points: Liftoff! eShort is a single chapter from the full Flash Points: Liftoff! title, packaged as a mini eBook. Flash Points: Liftoff! eShorts include Sputnik, Apollo 11, Challenger, and Spirit & Opportunity.
Each Flash Points: Liftoff! eShort is a single chapter from the full Flash Points: Liftoff! title, packaged as a mini eBook. Flash Points: Liftoff! eShorts include Sputnik, Apollo 11, Challenger, and Spirit & Opportunity.
Each Flash Points: Liftoff! eShort is a single chapter from the full Flash Points: Liftoff! title, packaged as a mini eBook. Flash Points: Liftoff! eShorts include Sputnik, Apollo 11, Challenger, and Spirit & Opportunity.
Readers get acquainted with the people behind today's most cutting-edge technologies in the personal space travel field--from bright ideas to cool new products--and inspires readers to consider a high-tech future career. Careers in Personal Space Travel introduces six exciting careers and features sidebar activities that invite readers to Imagine That! and Dig Deeper! Includes table of contents, glossary, index, and supplementary backmatter.
Offers readers a captivating look into the race between the United States and Soviet Union for space dominance. Learn about the many missions into space and humankind's first journey to the moon. Additional features include a Fast Facts spread, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, resources for further study, and an index.
Amidst more than 200 billion stars in a galaxy measuring 100,000 light years across, life has been discovered only in one place in the Milky Way: planet Earth. Yet the Milky Way is only one of many galaxies in the vast universe. While extraterrestrial life remains a mystery, explore discoveries about the stars and galaxies we see in the night sky with this engaging science e-book. Fifth-grade readers will launch into learning about types of galaxies, Earth’s place in the universe, properties of the Milky Way, astronomical tools, and more through this high-interest informational text filled with vibrant photographs. Aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards, a hands-on “Think Like a Scientist” lab activity and a “Your Turn” page at the end of the e-book support STEM Education and provide young scientists with an opportunity to apply what they’ve learned in the text. Helpful diagrams, a timeline of major space science discoveries from 1610 to 2010, and text features, such as a glossary and index, are also included to reinforce content-area literacy and improve close reading.
On July 23, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin stepped from their spacecraft onto the alien soil of the Moon - Earth's sister world. Using archival images and explanatory text, this riveting title guides the reader through NASA’s Apollo space program, including the tragic deaths of an entire flight crew and Apollo's ultimate triumph - the first lunar landing in 1969. Maps of the Moon show where Apollo 11's lunar lander Eagle landed and the route taken by the Soviet robot lander Lunokhod 1 in 1970.
This fascinating book describes what scientists discovered about the Moon from the Apollo missions that came after the successful landing in 1969, until the last mission in 1972. A discussion follows of why flights to the Moon stopped, the creation of space stations, such as Skylab, that followed, and what exciting new plans are now being made to revisit the Moon. Maps of the Moon show where astronauts drove in rovers on the surface and what resources can be found on the Moon, from ice to helium.
Readers who are curious about space will be fascinated exploring what we know about black holes! See what astronomers have discovered already and learn about the mysteries we have yet to solve in this high-interest STEM title.