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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
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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
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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
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Amazing Animals: Strange Animal Partnerships: Multiplying Fractions
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Amazing Animals: Venomous Snakes: Fractions and Decimals
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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
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Designing Butterfly Exhibits
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
