Science A Closer Look Spanish Leveled Readers deliver chapter science content in Spanish to help address the individual needs of all students. They are available in four levels: Approaching Level (1-2 years below grade level), Beyond Level (1-2 years above grade level), On-Level, and English Language version of the On-Level Reader. Readers support differentiated instruction and will reinforce reading skills and strategies while promoting science understanding. They come in packages that contain six identical books for the level ordered.
It's Electric! describes the role of electrons in electricity, how electricity is delivered to homes, ways that consumption of electricity can be reduced, and scientists who have explored electricity.
Science A Closer Look Spanish Leveled Readers deliver chapter science content in Spanish to help address the individual needs of all students. They are available in four levels: Approaching Level (1-2 years below grade level), Beyond Level (1-2 years above grade level), On-Level, and English Language version of the On-Level Reader. Readers support differentiated instruction and will reinforce reading skills and strategies while promoting science understanding. They come in packages that contain six identical books for the level ordered.
Marie Curie discovered radium and went on to lead the scientific community in studying the theory behind and the uses of radioactivity. She left a vast legacy to future scientists through her research, her teaching, and her contributions to the welfare of humankind. She was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes, yet upon her death in 1934, Albert Einstein was moved to say, "Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted." She was a physicist, a wife and mother, and a groundbreaking professional woman. This biography is an inspirational and exciting story of scientific discovery and personal commitment. Oxford Portraits in Science is an on-going series of scientific biographies for young adults. Written by top scholars and writers, each biography examines the personality of its subject as well as the thought process leading to his or her discoveries. These illustrated biographies combine accessible technical information with compelling personal stories to portray the scientists whose work has shaped our understanding of the natural world.
From the primitive pine-torch to the paraffin candle, how wide an interval! between them how vast a contrast! The means adopted by man to illuminate his home at night, stamp at once his position in the scale of civilisation. The fluid bitumen of the far East, blazing in rude vessels of baked earth; the Etruscan lamp, exquisite in form, yet ill adapted to its office; the whale, seal, or bear fat, filling the hut of the Esquimaux or Lap with odour rather than light; the huge wax candle on the glittering altar, the range of gas lamps in our streets,—all have their stories to tell. All, if they could speak (and, after their own manner, they can), might warm our hearts in telling, how they have ministered to man's comfort, love of home, toil, and devotion. Surely, among the millions of fire-worshippers and fire-users who have passed away in earlier ages, some have pondered over the mystery of fire; perhaps some clear minds have guessed shrewdly near the truth. Think of the time man has lived in hopeless ignorance: think that only during a period which might be spanned by the life of one man, has the truth been known. Atom by atom, link by link, has the reasoning chain been forged. Some links, too quickly and too slightly made, have given way, and been replaced by better work; but now the great phenomena are known—the outline is correctly and firmly drawn—cunning artists are filling in the rest, and the child who masters these Lectures knows more of fire than Aristotle did. The candle itself is now made to light up the dark places of nature; the blowpipe and the prism are adding to our knowledge of the earth's crust; but the torch must come first.
