Tomar fotos desde el espacio (Taking Photos from Space) eBook

NASA wants to send humans to Mars within the next 25 years, but before that can happen, they must plan and prepare. This Spanish Interactiv-eBook will engage students as they read about STEM topics, building both their literacy skills and math content knowledge. With a focus on NASA's Mission to Mars, students will learn problem solving through the use of real-world examples. Captivating images, practice problems, and mathematical charts and diagrams help develop students' problem solving skills. Text features such as a glossary, index, and a table of contents increase understanding and build ...

Students will learn area and perimeter while engaged in reading about a day in the life of a contractor! This Spanish engaging book uses real-world examples to teach math concepts, and incorporates nonfiction reading to increase vocabulary and comprehension skills. The challenging practice problems, graphs, and sidebars provide many opportunities for students to practice their developing math skills, and apply what they've learned to their daily lives. Essential text features like a glossary, index, and table of contents will increase students' interest level and their interaction with the...

What will it take to send people to Mars in the next 25 years? Students will learn that problem solving is an essential component of NASA’s planned mission to mars. This Spanish book combines mathematics and literacy skills, and uses practical, real-world examples of problem solving to teach math, language arts, and STEM content. Students will learn problem solving while engaged in reading high-interest content. The glossary, index, and table of contents will further understanding of reading and math concepts, and the full-color images, practice problems, and math graphs and charts make...

María José grieves at the loss of her mother who died in childbirth. She has difficulty sharing her feelings with her father and the distance between them grows with the appearance of a new woman. Her father gets another job which forces them to move to another neighborhood. The new house is small, but is near an ice cream store owned by Mr. Beto. In the store, María José makes friends with girls and boys her own age, but also meets Mr. Beto and his friends. María José and her friends try to help Mr. Beto when he comes down with a sudden illness.

Julia nunca hubiera imaginado que podría vivir tantas aventuras aislada en una habitación de hospital. ¡Ni que aprendería tantas cosas! Y todo gracias a su amigo Bruno, a su abuelo y, sobre todo, a un personaje muy especial que resultará ser una auténtica autoridad en el mundo de los sueños. Una historia tierna y emocionante.

La serie Cienciaenshorts nace para dar cabida a pequeños relatos que acercan al público de forma amena diferentes aspectos de la ciencia en formatos literarios. Obras menores solo en extensión. Se trata de una fórmula imaginativa que puso en marcha hace años nuestra editorial en forma de concurso, donde los autores de los relatos fueran científicos-escritores con voluntad de trasmitir con precisión conceptos científicos a la sociedad, de una manera comprensible para esta. El jurado del I Concurso de relatos científico-literarios "¿Te atreves...?" estuvo compuesto por los siguientes...

Las acciones que implican el cierre de escuelas rurales con baja matrícula para forzar los alumnos a movilizarse a centros educativos de mayor tamaño no son nuevas. Iniciaron en Estados Unidos desde finales del siglo XIX y desde entonces se han aplicado con diversos grados de intensidad en muchas naciones a través de varias modalidades. Aunque estas acciones se han sostenido con el argumento de que las pequeñas escuelas son de baja calidad, en el fondo estas medidas se apoyan en criterios meramente económicos: es más barato para el Estado sostener escuelas de mayor tamaño que varios...