Books in Science series series

Contemporary's Science series at a glance:Accessibility – universal design easily adapts to varied student learning needs and stylesDifferentiated instruction – activities and text structure allow for easy teacher modificationEase of Use – offers a balance of teacher directed and hands-on activitiesResearch Based – builds key instructional strategies into the contentEarth & Space Science: Exploring the Universe explores the history of our planet and the composition of Earth’s surface, core, oceans, and atmosphere. Students learn about how environmental changes affect our weather as well as the impact man has on the earth’s resources.

Contemporary's Science series at a glance: Accessibility €“ universal design easily adapts to varied student learning needs and styles Differentiated instruction €“ activities and text structure allow for easy teacher modification Ease of Use €“ offers a balance of teacher directed and hands-on activities Research Based €“ builds key instructional strategies into the content Using Contemporary's Biology: Exploring the Science of Life students will discover the origin, structure, growth, and evolution of species while learning to categorize living organisms. The hardcover student edition is accompanied by the Student CD-ROM which includes the full text of the SE, Interactive Laboratory/activities, a Student Presentation Builder, Spanish Chapter Summaries, Spanish Pre- and Post-Chapter Writing Activities, a Spanish cognate dictionary, and more.

Combining ideas from philosophy, artificial intelligence, and neurobiology, Daniel Dennett leads the reader on a fascinating journey of inquiry, exploring such intriguing possibilities as: Can any of us really know what is going on in someone else's mind? What distinguishes the human mind from the minds of animals, especially those capable of complex behavior? If such animals, for instance, were magically given the power of language, would their communities evolve an intelligence as subtly discriminating as ours? Will robots, once they have been endowed with sensory systems like those that provide us with experience, ever exhibit the particular traits long thought to distinguish the human mind, including the ability to think about thinking? Dennett addresses these questions from an evolutionary perspective. Beginning with the macromolecules of DNA and RNA, the author shows how, step-by-step, animal life moved from the simple ability to respond to frequently recurring environmental conditions to much more powerful ways of beating the odds, ways of using patterns of past experience to predict the future in never-before-encountered situations. Whether talking about robots whose video-camera ”eyes” give us the powerful illusion that ”there is somebody in there” or asking us to consider whether spiders are just tiny robots mindlessly spinning their webs of elegant design, Dennett is a master at finding and posing questions sure to stimulate and even disturb.

Space Dots for Mini Dot Markers! Welcome to the dot frontier of outer space dots for toddlers. Preschoolers and Toddlers will have lots of "do a dot" art book fun with this toddler outer space book. This Outer Space book for toddlers is designed for dot markers, bingo daubers, dab markers and mini dot markers. There are dot marker dots on every design in this space book for toddlers! - Over 30 Dot Marker outer space coloring pages- Bound Coloring Book: No loose papers- Fun for Preschoolers and Toddlers- 8.5” x 11” Pages perfect for framing- Works great with mini dauber dawgs markers, dab o ink markers, dab and dot markers, crazy dot markers, do a dot art markers, dab markers and more!

Physical Science: Exploring Matter and Energy explores the basic principles of matter and energy integrating physics, chemistry, and mathematics. Students learn the physical laws of how events happen in their world.Features of the Student CD-ROM include the following:Student Edition in Audio PDFChapter and Unit Reinforcement ActivitiesInteractive Student Laboratory ActivitiesDemonstration Laboratory ActivitiesStudent Presentation BuilderGraphic Organizing SoftwareSpanish Chapter SummariesSpanish Pre-Chapter Writing ActivitiesSpanish Post-Chapter Writing ActivitiesSpanish Cognate Dictionary