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Books in Science World series

  • Engineering in Your Everyday Life

    Danell Dykstra

    Library Binding (Enslow Publishing, July 15, 2019)
    How many day-to-day important devices are engineering design products? How does a smartphone send wireless communication? How do batteries release energy? These and other questions are explained using straightforward language that weaves in science terminology and is accompanied by intriguing photographs. Easy experiments demystify engineering concepts with step-by-step instructions to make bioplastics, bridges, motors, and robot arms. Sidebars explore high-interest current developments such as drones, 3D printing, and self-driving cars. Based on the Next Generation Science Standards, this book helps students understand the engineering design process and boosts their physical science knowledge of matter, forces, energy, and waves.
    Y
  • Let's Make Butter

    Eleanor Christian, Lyzz Roth-Singer

    Library Binding (Capstone Press, Sept. 1, 2000)
    Describes the ways food can change, using butter as an example, and shows the steps needed to make heavy cream into butter.
    I
  • Shiny and Dull

    Angela Royston

    Paperback (Heinemann, )
    None
    O
  • Earth's Structure

    Samantha Bell, Jeff Bane

    Paperback (Cherry Lake Pub, Jan. 1, 2018)
    Using the new Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), the My World of Science series provides the earliest readers with background on key STEM concepts. Earth's Structure explores basic geology in a simple, engaging way that will help readers develop word recognition and reading skills. Includes a glossary and index.
    J
  • Inclined Planes in My World/Planos inclinados en mi mundo

    Joanne Randolph, Maria Cristina Brusca

    Library Binding (Powerplus, Jan. 1, 2006)
    Teaches the definition and uses of the inclined plane as a tool, as well as examining different types of inclined planes.
    O
  • Sunlight

    Samantha Bell, Jeff Bane

    Paperback (Cherry Lake Pub, Jan. 1, 2018)
    Using the new Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), the My World of Science series provides the earliest readers with background on key STEM concepts. Sunlight explores the sun's energy and how it affects the earth in a simple, engaging way that will help readers develop word recognition and reading skills. Includes a glossary and index.
    C
  • States of Matter

    Samantha Bell, Jeff Bane

    Library Binding (Cherry Lake Pub, Jan. 1, 2018)
    Using the new Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), the My World of Science series provides the earliest readers with background on key STEM concepts. States of Matter explores basic chemistry and the states of solid, liquid, and gas in a simple, engaging way that will help readers develop word recognition and reading skills. Includes a glossary and index.
    WB
  • How Things Move

    Don L. Curry

    Library Binding (Capstone Press, Sept. 1, 1999)
    Explains the concept of push and pull movement, using many examples.
    I
  • Magnets

    Angela Royston

    Paperback (Heinemann/Raintree, )
    None
    N
  • Sound and Hearing

    Angela Royston

    Paperback (Heinemann, July 26, 2008)
    Readers will learn how sounds are made, how we hear them, how we use them, and where sounds can travel. Each book in the ‘My World of Science’ series explains science that you see in the world around you and use every day.
    O
  • Light: Prisms, Rainbows, and Colors

    Gina L. Hamilton

    Library Binding (Heinemann/Raintree, Nov. 1, 2003)
    Introduces the basic features of light energy and how it can be used in optics and lasers.
    W
  • Staying Alive: The Story of a Food Chain

    Jacqui Bailey, Matthew Lilly

    Library Binding (Picture Window Books, Jan. 1, 2006)
    Explains how plants and animals are connected through a food chain.
    K