Introduces the scientific concepts of energy and movement by using examples from everyday life

Text, activities, and experiments introduce the concepts of light and darkness, using examples from everyday life

Text, activities, and simple experiments explain the scientific concepts of hot and cold with examples from everyday life.

Text, activities, and simple experiments explain the science of sound with examples from everyday life

Discusses the roles of farming in producing crops and animals used for food and clothing, and industry, which produces other goods used by people around the world

Introduces some of the features of the world's oceans and their coastlines, including currents, waves, tides, sandy beaches, and rocky shores.

Product Description: Managing Environmental Pollution presents a comprehensive introduction to the nature of pollution, its impacts on the environment, and the practical options and regulatory frameworks for pollution control. Sources of pollution, regulatory controls, technological solutions, management and mitigation techniques and assessment tools, are examined in each key area: air, freshwater, and marine pollution, contaminated land and radioactive substances...read more

Provides a simple overview of how mountains are formed, how their shapes vary and are changed, mountain weather, the animals and plants that live on them, and more

Photographs depict the people, landscapes, cultures, festivals, and architecture of Myanmar, also known as Burma (view table of contents)

Describes the brain, its parts, and functions, and discusses how it communicates with other parts of the body

Explains how your ears function to hear sounds, maintain balance, and measure distances

Discusses the parts of the eye, how they function to produce the phenomenon of vision in humans and animals, and other aspects of the act of seeing.

Describes the different bones and muscles in the human body, giving their locations and functions

Young readers build programming skills and learn about computer graphics and animation as they develop a computer game, 'Invaders,' using BASIC for the Apple IIe and Commodore 64 machines