Books in High-Tech Science series

Whether you're watching a movie, bingeing on a classic TV show, or listening to your favorite song, you're probably streaming it. Videotapes, DVDs, and CDs are mostly just memories now. Streaming puts a world of options at your fingertips when you’re at home and, with a smartphone or tablet, when you're on the go. Find out how streaming was invented, how it works, and what the future might hold for this part of a high-tech life.

The Science series supports children needing additional, focused instruction in physical science, biology or chemistry. With content based on state and national standards, these books can be used as a stand-alone resource or as a supplement for other science materials including basals. This book contains key terms, specific topic instruction, and review activities in standardized test format, puzzles, and a glossary with bound in answer key.

The Science series supports children needing additional, focused instruction in physical science, biology or chemistry. With content based on state and national standards, these books can be used as a stand-alone resource or as a supplement for other science materials including basals. This book contains key terms, specific topic instruction, and review activities in standardized test format, puzzles, and a glossary with bound in answer key.

It seems simple: tap the screen of your smartphone to open an app, or swipe your finger across the screen to make the smartphone do something else. However, that touch screen has been years in the making and is a complex piece of what is now essential technology. Readers will find out how layers of glass, metal, and LEDs work together to make a touch screen work. Full-color images augment explanations of different kinds of touch screens. Readers will be captivated by the many uses touch screens have in the world today, from controlling machinery in a factory to helping surgeons perform medical procedures.

The Science series supports children needing additional, focused instruction in physical science, biology or chemistry. With content based on state and national standards, these books can be used as a stand-alone resource or as a supplement for other science materials including basals. This book contains key terms, specific topic instruction, and review activities in standardized test format, puzzles, and a glossary with bound in answer key.

When taking a road trip today, some sort of GPS device is essential. It may be built into the cars dashboard, or perhaps its just an app on a smartphone. But GPS is used for more than just finding your way! Readers will be fascinated by its beginnings as a military system and its many modern uses, such as catching criminals, predicting earthquakes, and creating maps. Colorful photographs illustrate real-life examples of GPS technology, military and civilian, and informative text clearly explains the science and math concepts behind the satellites and receivers used all over the world.

Even though computer wireless networks havent been around for very long, the basic technology used to create them is more than 100 years old. WiFi uses radio waves to send and receive data and connect smartphones, tablets, and computers to the Internet. Today, almost everywhere you go has WiFi, including schools, coffee shops, and the library. The inner workings of this ubiquitous technology will fascinate readers, who probably use it every day. Accompanied by full-color photos, the main content will introduce innovators like Nikola Tesla and other electronics history, as well as the future possibilities of wireless connection.