Take a trip to the fire station to learn how firefighters use measurement to put out fires! This engaging title takes young readers through the history of firefighting and the development of fire engines, teaching them how firefighters have measured extinguishing water throughout the years. Firefighters used to carry three-gallon buckets of water to toss on a fire! Some old water tanks held 90 gallons of water! These fun facts, paired with related practice problems, help readers learn more about measurement, volume, perimeter, and STEM topics.
Learn more about two-dimensional shapes with this engaging title! This book teaches young readers about various qualities relating to two-dimensional shapes, introducing them to new concepts and vocabulary terms like regular and irregular shapes, right angles, lines of symmetry, and congruency. Practice geometry skills and STEM skills by identifying two-dimensional shapes and their qualities. Clear, colorful diagrams keep readers engaged and encourage children to find shapes all around them!
Lily, the librarian, has started a summer reading club. Children can follow along with the club's members to learn all about bar, line, and circle graphs, as well as concepts such as data, scale, maximum, and minimum.
A grocery store is filled with much more than food. The aisles and shelves hold plenty of fun, too. As Justin helps his mother shop, he explores the variety of 3-D shapes all around him. As Justin can show you, there are always plenty of shapes to see!
In this title, students will learn all about area with visually enhanced problem solving equations and solutions.
In this title, prisms and pyramids come to life with the visually enhanced text and simple explanations to make this math topic easier to understand.
This book is all about patterns and how to understand and solve them. Easy to understand text and visuals add to students' understanding.
A Level 1 Amicus Reader that describes tiny animals around the world. Examples include the pygmy marmoset, bee hummingbird, and ladybug. Includes comprehension activity.
Introduces the opposites up and down by comparing the behavior of such animals as eagles up in the air and fish down in the sea.
Introduces the opposites big and small by comparing such animals as big blue whales and small hermit crabs.
Introduces synonyms for big by comparing large, huge, massive, and enormous sea animals.
Introduces the opposites near and far by comparing the behavior of such animals as fox pups that stay near dens and butterflies that migrate far south.
Kids in a classroom practice measuring favorite objects they brought from home using different units of measurement and comparing the objects.
Introduces differences in size by comparing groups of big animals, such as big turtles, wildcats, and ocean creatures.
Introduces differences in height by comparing groups of tall landmarks and structures throughout the world, such as skyscrapers, bridges, and mountains.
Introduces differences in lengths by comparing lengths of baseball diamonds, tennis courts, Olympic swimming pools and other distances in sports.
Introduces differences in length and height by comparing dog breeds and their features, such as legs, ears, and noses.
Introduces differences in weight by comparing heavy, heavier, and heaviest everyday machines, such as motorcycles, cars, and trucks.
Introduces differences in size by comparing groups of small animals, such as small birds, turtles, and fish.
In Sort It!, early fluent readers learn about the practice of sorting by exploring a variety of real-world examples. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text encourage young readers to look around them for opportunities to sort. Infographics illustrate key concepts, and an activity offers kids an opportunity to extend discovery. Children can learn more about sorting using our safe search engine that provides relevant, age-appropriate websites. Sort It! also features reading tips for teachers and parents, a table of contents, a glossary, and an index.
In Weigh It!, early fluent readers learn about weighing in both the imperial and metric systems by exploring a variety of real-world examples. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text encourage young readers to look around them for opportunities to practice weighing. Infographics illustrate key concepts, and an activity offers kids an opportunity to extend discovery. Children can learn more about weighing using our safe search engine that provides relevant, age-appropriate websites. Weigh It! also features reading tips for teachers and parents, a table of contents, a glossary, and an index.
Get ready to discover and uncover the properties of shapes. Learn all about dimensions, length, width, and 2- and 3-dimensional shapes. With the rhyming text in this book, you will discover hexagons, polygons, pentagons, and so much more in a fun and easy to understand way! So blast off and learn all about galactic geometry! This book will allow students to understand that attributes belonging to a category of 2- or 3-dimensional figures also belong to all subcategories of that category.
This book talks about how you can make patterns out of colors, shapes, and lines and how changing any one of these will also change the pattern.
This colorful book introduces young readers to the world of color. Readers will learn how an enormous range of colors can be made from just three primary colors. This title also explains the difference between warm colors and cool colors. The book uses famous works of art to show readers how color can be used to both show a scene and convey a message.
From dogs and cats to turtles and rats, this book uses rhyme to show kids the facts! Photographs of pets in funny situations help children understand the concept of size. Children learn by comparing animals to determine which is bigger or smaller. An activity at the end asks children to identify which animal on the page is the biggest, the smallest, and medium-sized.