La enfermera de Brunete

El autor ofrece unos materiales contrastados y de gran utilidad para el profesorado. Por un lado, nos presenta su reflexión sobre los temás más destacados del Área de Tecnología en educación secundaria: análisis de los objetivos, contenidos, criterios de evaluación, metodología, etc. Y por otro la sugerencia permanente de ideas, pistas y estrategias para lograr una clase más activa, creadora y participativa a través de orientaciones didácticas específicas, pautas de actuación para el profesorado, desarrollo de la creatividad, aprendizaje cooperativo, temas transversales, etc.

"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...

Caribbean women must overcome the damage caused by infidelity, monogamy and polyamory, incest, abortion, mental problems, abandonment, and suicide. In this novel, poetic flashes serve as support and criticism of other core frames such as marriage between same sex, existential search through yoga, and the struggle of equal rights.

Which animals and plants can survive in a dry desert environment? Readers learn about the living things that make up desert food chains, including cacti, snakes, and scorpions. Colorful photographs of desert life make readers feel like they’re exploring new parts of this habitat with each turn of the page. Fact boxes provide additional information about the creatures that make up desert food chains, and a detailed food web shows how these food chains all come together. The desert is an extreme habitat, and readers will enjoy learning about the extreme plants and animals that live there.