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  • Cracking Up: A Story About Erosion

    Jacqui Bailey, Matthew Lilly

    Paperback (Picture Window Books, Jan. 1, 2006)
    A rocky cliff juts out toward the ocean, its rough face jagged and worn. In a process called erosion, water, ice, and wind wear away the rock and change its shape over time. From rivers cutting deep valleys to ocean waves crashing into the shore, erosion changes the face of the earth.
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  • The Rock Factory: The Story About the Rock Cycle

    Jacqui Bailey, Matthew Lilly

    Paperback (Picture Window Books, Jan. 1, 2006)
    Explains the formation of rocks and minerals, and includes information on volcanoes.
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  • Charged Up: The Story of Electricity

    Jacqui Bailey, Matthew Lilly

    Paperback (Picture Window Books, Jan. 1, 2004)
    Describes how electrical energy is generated in power stations and how it travels through pylons, power cables, and wires into people's homes. Includes activity.
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  • Sun Up, Sun Down: The Story of Day and Night

    Jacqui Bailey, Matthew Lilly

    Paperback (Picture Window Books, Jan. 1, 2004)
    Follows the sun from dawn to dusk to explain how light rays travel, how shadows are formed, how the moon lights up the night sky, and more. Includes activity.
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  • Up, Down, All Around: A Story of Gravity

    Jacqui Bailey, Matthew Lilly

    Paperback (Picture Window Books, Jan. 1, 2006)
    Explains the concept of gravity by taking a trip on the space shuttle.
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  • Cracking Up: A Story About Erosion

    Jacqui Bailey, Matthew Lilly

    Library Binding (Picture Window Books, Jan. 1, 2006)
    A rocky cliff juts out toward the ocean, its rough face jagged and worn. In a process called erosion, water, ice, and wind wear away the rock and change its shape over time. From rivers cutting deep valleys to ocean waves crashing into the shore, erosion changes the face of the earth.
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  • A Drop in the Ocean: The Story of Water

    Jacqui Bailey, Matthew Lilly

    Paperback (Picture Window Books, Jan. 1, 2004)
    Follows a drop of water as it cycles from droplet to vapor and back to water and describes its journeys in between. Includes activity.
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  • Learning About Weather - ScienceWorks for Kids

    Evan Moor, Phillip Smith, Jo Larsen, Kelly McMahan

    Paperback (Evan Moor Educational Publishers, Oct. 1, 2000)
    Learning About Weather covers concepts that address National Science Education Standards. Concepts covered include: there are many kinds of weather, weather changes from day to day, weather can be described by measurable quantities-temperature and wind materials exist in different states, water can change from one state to another, and rain is part of the water cycle. A variety of engaging activities present the concepts in ways that young students can understand. Each concept presented includes: teacher directions for lessons and reproducible resource pages such as sets of picture cards, minibooks, and lab sheets to record the results of hands-on investigations.
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  • Be a Crime Scene Investigator

    Lorraine Jean Hopping

    Library Binding (Gareth Stevens Pub Learning library, Dec. 15, 2007)
    Describes how crime scene investigators use science to collect and analyze evidence.
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  • Be a Demolition Engineer

    David Dreier

    Paperback (Gareth Stevens Pub Learning library, Jan. 1, 2008)
    Provides facts and challenge questions about how a demolition engineer takes down two different kinds of buildings.
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  • Monster Bones: The Story of a Dinosaur Fossil

    Jacqui Bailey, Matthew Lilly

    Library Binding (Picture Window Books, Jan. 1, 2004)
    Describes how the bones of a dinosaur became fossilized, were discovered by a paleontologist, and were ultimately displayed in a museum. Includes activity.
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  • Monster Stones : The Story of a Dinosaur Fossil

    Jacqui Bailey, Matthew Lilly

    Paperback (Gardners Books, June 30, 2004)
    This series uses cartoon style illustrations and humorous narrative text to make key topics in Science and Geography both accessible and engaging. This approach encourages children to read about and understand complex ideas. This book takes the reader back millions of years to tell the story of a dinosaur's death. Through this story, we discover how fossils are formed. We also learn how they are discovered, removed, researched and preserved in museums. This book also contains an experiment, more great facts to know, useful websites and an index.