El uso de instrumentos para entender nuestro mundo / Using Tools to Understand Our World

[English]Why do maple and oak trees drop their leaves in the fall? What other animals share the forest with chipmunks, deer, and snakes? Hike through this book, and find out what makes temperate deciduous forests one of Earth's treasures. [Spanish]¿Por qué al arce y al roble se les caen las hojas en el otoño? ¿Qué otros animales comparten el bosque con las ardillas listadas, los venados y las serpientes? Da un paseo por este libro. Descubrirás por qué los bosques templados son uno de los grandes tesoros de la Tierra.

Teach students about American culture and the importance of celebrating the mosaic of American culture. This Spanish-translated book features primary source documents and images that keep students reading as they build their literacy skills and social studies content knowledge. Informational text features help students navigate the text.

"Some things are so huge or so old that it's hard to wrap your mind around them. But what if we took these big, hard-to-imagine objects and events and compared them to things we can see, feel and touch? Instantly, we'd see our world in a whole new way." So begins this endlessly intriguing guide to better understanding all those really big ideas and numbers children come across on a regular basis. Author David J. Smith has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one...

Lo que realmente le gusta a Guillermo es el baloncesto, así que sueña con que algún día le descubra un cazatalentos y terminar jugando en la NBA. Por eso, cuando su amiga Berta le convence para que participe en una obra de teatro, no se cree capaz de decir una sola frase correctamente. Pero los acontecimientos se suceden y Guillermo descubrirá que sobre el escenario también se puede amar, llorar y ser feliz de verdad.