Books with author Richard,Rackham

The literature of science fiction packs up the facts and discoveries of science and runs off to futures filled with both wonders and warnings. Kids love to take the journeys it offers for the thrill of the ride, but they can learn as they travel, too. This book will provide you with: an overview of the past 500 years of scientific thought and the literature of science fiction which it inspired; suggestions for finding and adapting the kind of science fiction that will work best for your classroom; detailed ideas and resources for teaching concepts in the physical, earth, space, and life sciences, as well in history and mathematics; and suggested activities for a variety of grade levels. Appendices provide: science references to help you keep the facts and the fictions straight; national science content standards; and detailed lesson plans for an earth science unit where students travel the depths of time and create their own time travelers' diaries.

The literature of science fiction packs up the facts and discoveries of science and runs off to futures filled with both wonders and warnings. Kids love to take the journeys it offers for the thrill of the ride, but they can learn as they travel, too. This book will provide you with: an overview of the past 500 years of scientific thought and the literature of science fiction which it inspired; suggestions for finding and adapting the kind of science fiction that will work best for your classroom; detailed ideas and resources for teaching concepts in the physical, earth, space, and life sciences, as well in history and mathematics; and suggested activities for a variety of grade levels. Appendices provide: science references to help you keep the facts and the fictions straight; national science content standards; and detailed lesson plans for an earth science unit where students travel the depths of time and create their own time travelers' diaries.

Have you ever felt lonely, sad, or scared? Have you gone through a dark place, or even a time period of darkness in your life? Have you ever been afflicted? Dusty is born in the darkness of a cave, pressured on all sides, but what he doesn't realize is that the forces surrounding him are making him into a beautiful diamond. Dusty will be discovered, and he will not only become a valuable possession, but an eternal weight of glory as well!

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Excerpt from On the Edge of Winter: Wherein May Be Read How Five Boys and Five Girls Ate Their Thanksgiving Dinner at an Old Farm House in the Hudson HighlandsFrom this time on the voyage was very commonplace. Sixty-eight days after leaving England, they anchored in Boston Harbor. What a contrast, in point of time, to that of the great steamer we just saw, which has made the same distance in less than ten days!Well, said Jack meditatively, after all, it couldn't have been such bad fun in the old times. Think of seeing a man ducked at the yard-arm! That must have been prime. But I say, he went on, this fellow must have drawn a very long bow with his enchanted islands, and so forth. I wonder if people believed him!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Aboard the Mavis: It Is Told in This Book How Five Boys and Five Girls Cruise in the Schooner "Mavis" About the East End of Long Island, and How, in Addition to Sundry Good Times, They Learn Somewhat of the Early History of Their CountryIndoors about the dining-table were seated Mr. And Mrs. Longwood, and Tom and Carrie. Tom had just laid down his fork, and was looking out of the window with an air of forced resignation.And to think, he said, after a moment, that a fellow must leave all this, day after to-morrow, and go back to school!No one answered; for, indeed, if all Tom's regrets had been sympathized with, some one of the family would have been talk ing all the time.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Colonial Days: Being Stories and Ballads for Young Patriots, as Recounted By, Five Boys and Five Girls in Around the Yule Aboard the on the Edge of WinterThe sun had been gone more than an hour on a certain cold winter's evening, and only a dull glow in the west told where he had set. But his light was not missed; for overhead the moon shone out clear and white through the frosty air, making the snow that lay deep all about flash and glitter like a burnished shield.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from On the Edge of Winter: Wherein May Be Read How Five Boys and Five Girls Ate Their Thanksgiving Dinner at an Old Farm House in the Hudson HighlandsFrom this time on the voyage was very commonplace. Sixty-eight days after leaving England, they anchored in Boston Harbor. What a contrast, in point of time, to that of the great steamer we just saw, which has made the same distance in less than ten days!Well, said Jack meditatively, after all, it couldn't have been such bad fun in the old times. Think of seeing a man ducked at the yard-arm! That must have been prime. But I say, he went on, this fellow must have drawn a very long bow with his enchanted islands, and so forth. I wonder if people believed him!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.