The Wizard of Oz wasn't the first movie to use color. But it used color in a way that makes it hard to imagine the film without it. The Yellow Brick Road, the Emerald City, and Dorothy's iconic ruby slippers were made possible by a new technology called Technicolor. Learn about the history of Technicolor in film with this high-interest book!
Created in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution, this book builds students' literacy skills while fostering curiosity, creativity, and innovation. The hands-on STEAM challenge is ideal for makerspace activities, and guides students through every stage of the engineering design process. This book features:
The Hidden World of Garbage: Multi-Digit Numbers
Grade: 4
Price: $9.99
Take a trip to a landfill and recycling center and learn about multi-digit numbers! This math reader integrates math and literacy skills, and uses practical, real-world examples to help students explore math in a meaningful way.
Amazing Animals: Alligators: Multiplication
Grade: 4
Price: $9.99
Sink your teeth into reading about alligators, and practice multiplication while you're at it! This math reader integrates math and literacy skills, and uses practical, real-world examples to help students explore math in a meaningful way.
STEM: 3-D Printing: Adding and Subtracting Fractions
Grade: 4
Price: $9.99
This high-interest math reader integrates math and literacy skills and uses real-world examples to help students explore math in a meaningful way. Students will add and subtract fractions while they are engaged in reading about 3-D printing.
Amazing Animals: Strange Animal Partnerships: Multiplying Fractions
Grade: 4
Price: $9.99
This high-interest math reader integrates math and literacy skills and uses real-world examples to help students explore math in a meaningful way. Students will practice multiplying fractions while engaged in reading about strange animal partnerships.
Amazing Animals: Venomous Snakes: Fractions and Decimals
Grade: 4
Price: $9.99
This math reader integrates math and literacy skills and uses real-world examples to help students explore math in a meaningful way. Students will work with fractions and decimals while engaged in reading about venomous snakes from around the world.
Engineering Marvels: The Eiffel Tower: Measurement
Grade: 4
Price: $9.99
This nonfiction math reader integrates math and literacy skills and uses real-world examples to help students explore math in a meaningful way. Students will convert units of measurement while engaged in reading about the construction of the Eiffel Tower.
Designing Butterfly Exhibits
Grade: 4
Price: $9.99
Learn about the challenges scientists face when creating indoor ecosystems for butterflies! With a hands-on STEAM activity and career connections, this book uses real-world examples to teach how the engineering design process is used to solve problems.
Organic Farming
Grade: 4
Price: $9.99
Learn about the organic food revolution taking place! With a hands-on STEAM activity and career connections, this Smithsonian nonfiction reader uses real-world examples to teach how the engineering design process is used to solve problems.
Saving the Arctic
Grade: 4
Price: $9.99
Discover how changes in the Arctic ecosystem and melting polar ice affect the entire Earth. With a hands-on STEAM activity and career connections, this book uses real-world examples to teach how the engineering design process is used to solve problems.
Powered by Steam
Grade: 4
Price: $9.99
Learn about the history of steam power and the inventors and engineers who made it possible! With a hands-on STEAM activity and career connections, this book uses real-world examples to teach how the engineering design process is used to solve problems.
The Culture of Calendars
Grade: 4
Price: $9.99
It's "time" to learn how different cultures have kept calendars for thousands of years! With a hands-on STEAM activity and career connections, this book uses real-world examples to teach how the engineering design process is used to solve problems.
Conserving an Aircraft
Grade: 4
Price: $9.99
Read how Smithsonian conservators saved and restored an experimental WWII aircraft from ruin! With a hands-on STEAM activity and career connections, this book uses real-world examples to teach how the engineering design process is used to solve problems.