Books in Exploration series

Take a trip into the stratosphere with Smithsonian Exploration Station: Space! With informative text and full-color photographs, young astronomers will learn about the intricate makeup of our solar system as well as distant galaxies and constellations. The 56-page fact book combined with the sticker sheet, space figurines to play with, and the glow-in-the-dark stars make this space experience interactive and engaging. Includes: 56-page fact book 30 stickers 22 glow-in-the-dark stars 2 figurines (astronaut and rocket)

Head off on a globetrotting adventure in this interactive atlas! Learn about the diverse cultures, customs, wildlife, and natural beauty that form our world through informative text and full-color photograph. Children will love the hands-on aspect to learning as they blow up their inflatable globe and build the cardstock models of some of the wonders of the world. Smithsonian Exploration Station: World Atlas is the perfect way to engage kids in the amazing world around them! Includes: 56-page fact book 30 stickers 1 inflatable globe 3 cardstock models to assemble: the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal, and a Mayan pyramid

BECOME AN EXPLORER TODAY! An exciting collection of First Contact science fiction stories, each set in the same universe. Join many of today's best SF authors as they tell you stories of explorations. The Sphere ship appeared suddenly, damaged and dying. After making contact, Earth learned they weren’t alone in the universe. The Sphere gave them knowledge of space travel, and coordinates to other races spread across the expanse. It asked them to continue its mission of exploration and contact, but also left them with a stark warning: Stay away from the Star. Over the next twenty years, the United Earth Foundation formed, and their ships were built, their displacement drives giving them the sphere shape when engaged. Their Mission: First Contact Prologue - Stephen Moss Deja Vu - Peter Cawdron The Signal - Ralph Kern Status: Inactive - Richard Fox The Bottom Line - Chris Kennedy End of the Line - Robert M. Campbell Mercurial Rescue - Isaac Hooke The Mission - PP Corcoran The Last Command - Nick Bailey Sleeping Giant - PJ Strebor The Darklady - Scott Moon Triaxial - Stephen Moss Harbinger - Josh Hayes Epilogue - Empyrean - Jacob Cooper Join the SciFiExplorations.com newsletter and become an Explorer today! http://eepurl.com/ccWrwf

Discover what makes your blood pump and your muscles stretch in this hands-on learning experience! With fascinating facts, full-color photographs, a plastic model skeleton, and 25 fact cards, Smithsonian Exploration Station: Human Body is a fun, engaging way to learn about the inner workings of the complex systems that make the human body. Includes: 56-page fact book 30 stickers 1 plastic model skeleton (13 pieces) 25 fact cards

Investigate famous fossil excavations and the archaeologists and paleontologists who led them with Digging for Dinosaurs. Through dinosaurs such as Megalosaurus, Tyrannosaurus rex, and Sinosauropteryx, readers will discover how we learn about how dinosaurs looked, how they lived, and the conditions of Earth long ago.Full-color photos and infographics bring these amazing ancient discoveries to life! Table of contents, diagram, map, fun facts, a glossary, and an index are included. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO

A colorful infographic look at the many surprising and fascinating facts about water.Where did water come from before it got to Earth? Why is the water you drink the same stuff that was around when dinosaurs were alive? If water can’t be created or destroyed, how can we run out? Find out the answers to these and many more intriguing questions in this vibrant book, designed to appeal to visual learners.Dive in and discover why water is so important to different religious faith, amazing extreme lakes and rivers around the world, the surprising connection between water access and girls' education worldwide, how climate change affects water, and vice versa — and what you can do about it.Filled to the brim with colorful illustrations and diagrams,easy-to-understand infographics, and illuminating photos, Water Wow! is a dazzling and fun introduction to the importance of water in our lives.

Humans have made astonishing progress understanding space. The Space Exploration series takes readers on a journey through some of scientists most exciting discoveries and achievements. Learn how people continue to explore our solar system and beyond. Space Exploration is a series of AV2 media enhanced books. A unique book code printed on page 2 unlocks multimedia content. These books come alive with video, audio, weblinks, slideshows, activities, hands-on experiments, and much more.