Por Que Algunos Animales Viven en Nidos

Correlated to the science curriculum, our Spanish-language series describes how the types of homes that different animals build reflect adaptations to their environments. Through simple, easy-to-follow text, each volume looks at each type of home as a shelter from predators and weather and a place to store food and raise young. Young readers also learn how animal homes and human homes fulfill similar needs and functions.

Nuestros hijos necesitan saber. El mundo les resulta, todavía, desconocido. Los padres jugamos un papel determinante en ese proceso formativo. Nosotros seremos los encargados, además, de trasmitirles la influencia sobre nuestras creencias religiosas. Este libro vinculará a los niños con el lado espiritual de sus vidas. Será un primer y cercano encuentro con la Biblia. Resulta importante que desde muy jóvenes aprendan a recurrir por ayuda al preciado documento. Lo simple y cotidiano de la vida diaria los enfrentará a situaciones que son comparables con los pasajes bíblicos. En cada...

Each player has his or her own job in soccer and baseball. They each do their part to contribute to the team. Teamwork is also important outside of sports. We use teamwork in our classroom, in our community, and at home with our family. Readers are presented with different scenarios in which young people use teamwork to achieve a certain goal, like when Nicole's neighbor becomes ill, everyone in the neighborhood takes on a job with the goal of helping the sick neighbor. Each spread contains a color photograph that imparts the importance and rewards of working as a team.

Mysterious ancient ruins, hidden deep in the jungle of southern Mexico In May 1840, explorers John Stephens and Frederick Catherwood road their mules along a steep, muddy jungle path. They were hoping to find the ruins of an ancient, deserted site in Mexico they knew only from visitors’ accounts. Through the trees, they spied the remains of a crumbling stone palace. Palenque! In the weeks they spent there, the men discovered intricately designed buildings and mysterious glyphs, or symbols. Who built this city? What did the glyphs mean? The questions remained largely unanswered until the...

Los temas sobre la energía -producción, uso, impacto ambiental.- forman parte de nuestra vida cotidiana. Está presente en la prensa, en las cabeceras de los telediarios, en guiones cinematográficos o en la publicidad. Son contenidos vitales que no pueden esperar a la educación secundaria y su estudio debe abordarse desde los primeros niveles del sistema educativo. En este sentido este libro aporta ideas para la planificación y la puesta en práctica de actividades relacionadas con la energía, su uso, consumo y ahorro energético en la vida cotidiana. Se trata de propuestas y materiales ...