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Books in 21st Century Skills Library: Exploring Our Oceans series

  • Lionfish

    Susan Heinrichs Gray

    Paperback (Cherry Lake Pub, Aug. 1, 2014)
    The ocean is home to a variety of fascinating animals. Strange Sea Creatures: Lionfish dives in and gives readers a chance to explore this armored predator. This captivating book provides fascinating facts about lionfish, including their spiny skeleton, habitats, food sources, life cycles, and more. Strange Sea Creatures: Lionfish provides an interactive approach to teaching life science. The book introduces basic concepts and ideas while also providing activities and exercises that engage students in processes and skills that are essential to scientific learning and discovery.
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  • Sea Anemone

    Dominique A. Didier

    Paperback (Cherry Lake Pub, Aug. 1, 2014)
    The ocean is home to a variety of fascinating animals. Strange Sea Creatures: Sea Anemone dives in and gives readers a chance to explore this interesting creature that can look more like a flower than an animal. This captivating book provides fascinating facts about these under water animals, including their many tentacled crown, habitats, food sources, life cycles, and more. Strange Sea Creatures: Sea Anemone provides an interactive approach to teaching life science. The book introduces basic concepts and ideas while also providing activities and exercises that engage students in processes and skills that are essential to scientific learning and discovery.
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  • Nudibranch

    Susan Heinrichs Gray

    Paperback (Cherry Lake Pub, July 1, 2014)
    The ocean is home to a variety of fascinating animals. Strange Sea Creatures: Nudibranch dives in and gives readers a chance to investigate these slow creatures we often call "sea slugs". This captivating book provides fascinating facts about nudibranchs, including their soft bodies, habitats, food sources, life cycles, and more. Strange Sea Creatures: Nudibranch provides an interactive approach to teaching life science. The book introduces basic concepts and ideas while also providing activities and exercises that engage students in processes and skills that are essential to scientific learning and discovery.
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  • Great Hornbill

    Gray Susan H

    Paperback (Cherry Lake Publishing, Jan. 1, 2015)
    Introduces facts about hornbills, including physical features, habitat, life cycle, food, and threats to these rainforest creatures. Photos, captions, and keywords supplement the narrative of this informational text. Questions in the backmatter ask for text-dependent analysis.
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  • Reticulated Python

    Orr Tamra B

    Library Binding (Cherry Lake Publishing, Jan. 1, 2015)
    Introduces facts about reticulated pythons, including physical features, habitat, life cycle, food, and threats to these rainforest creatures. Photos, captions, and keywords supplement the narrative of this informational text. Questions in the backmatter ask for text-dependent analysis.
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  • Poison Dart Frog

    Orr Tamra B

    Paperback (Cherry Lake Publishing, Jan. 1, 2015)
    Introduces facts about poison dart frogs, including physical features, habitat, life cycle, food, and threats to these rainforest creatures. Photos, captions, and keywords supplement the narrative of this informational text. Questions in the backmatter ask for text-dependent analysis.
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  • Harpy Eagle

    Gray Susan H

    Library Binding (Cherry Lake Publishing, Jan. 1, 2015)
    Introduces facts about harpy eagles, including physical features, habitat, life cycle, food, and threats to these rainforest creatures. Photos, captions, and keywords supplement the narrative of this informational text. Questions in the backmatter ask for text-dependent analysis.
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  • Digital Badges

    Shauna Masura

    Paperback (Cherry Lake Publishing, Aug. 1, 2013)
    Digital badges offer a new way of showing off some of your most impressive accomplishments. Readers will discover new processes, integrate visual information with text, and learn technical word meanings as they find out how digital badges work and how to begin earning them. They will also find out how to create and award badges of their own to people who accomplish amazing tasks.
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  • Great Hornbill

    Gray Susan H

    Library Binding (Cherry Lake Publishing, Jan. 1, 2015)
    Introduces facts about hornbills, including physical features, habitat, life cycle, food, and threats to these rainforest creatures. Photos, captions, and keywords supplement the narrative of this informational text. Questions in the backmatter ask for text-dependent analysis.
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  • Chimpanzee

    Bell Samantha

    Paperback (Cherry Lake Publishing, Jan. 1, 2015)
    Introduces facts about chimpanzees, including physical features, habitat, life cycle, food, and threats to these rainforest creatures. Photos, captions, and keywords supplement the narrative of this informational text. Questions in the backmatter ask for text-dependent analysis.
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  • From Butterfly Wings To... Display Technology

    Josh Gregory

    Paperback (Cherry Lake Publishing, Jan. 1, 2014)
    Learn about how nature has inspired technological innovations with this book on the similarities between butterfly wings and display technology for digital screens. Integrating both historical and scientific perspectives, this book explains how butterfly wings inspired the invention of new digital display technology. Readers will make connections and examine the relationship between the two concepts. Sidebars, photographs, a glossary, and a concluding chapter on important people in the field add detail and depth to this informational text on biomimicry.
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  • Moray Eel

    Dominique A Didier

    Library Binding (Cherry Lake Pub, Aug. 1, 2014)
    The ocean is home to a variety of fascinating animals. Strange Sea Creatures: Moray Eel dives in and gives readers a chance to explore this snake-like fish. This captivating book provides fascinating facts about moray eels, including their scary looks, homes in the reef, food sources, life cycles, and more. Strange Sea Creatures: Moray Eel provides an interactive approach to teaching life science. The book introduces basic concepts and ideas while also providing activities and exercises that engage students in processes and skills that are essential to scientific learning and discovery.
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