Books in Science Discoveries series

Children are full of questions, and this innovative series encourages them to find the answers by getting their hands into scientific explorations. Adding exciting and eye-opening discoveries to any science curriculum, this developmental approach guides children in acquiring the skills of inquiry. Four units for each grade level provide activities that help students build investigative and emerging literacy and math skills as they complete easy-to-do experiments and tasks. Grade 2

People first came to the continent of North America during the Ice Age. Some settled in the bleak lands of the Arctic, while others walked south as far as California and Florida. They formed different tribes with their own languages, customs and ceremonies. Native Americans is the story of these people - from the hunters and warriors who speared woolly mammoths and long-horned bison, to the farmers and foragers who searched for food in the mountains and on the coast. They depended on the land for everything: for wild plants to use in healing rituals; and for materials to make and decorate clothes, masks and costumes, and to build dwellings and boats. Many Native Americans believed that the sky, earth, plants, animals and rivers had powerful spirits. Some told stories of mythical creatures that formed the world and brought good harvests. They danced, sang and prayed to the spirits and had solemn pipe-smoking rituals and powwows to ask the spirits for a successful hunt or to bring peace to warring tribes. When Columbus came to the New World, life changed for the Native Americans. The new settlers often took land by force, and herded the people o

Illustrated instructions guide readers through Earth Science experiments pertaining to water on Earth, including the water cylce, evaporation, transpiration, and precipitation. An engaging way to support the Next Generation Science Standards. Experiments are simple, accessible, and something that could be used at a science fair, in the classroom, or at home. Exploring water on Earth has never been simpler.