Most Popular Books by Elizabeth MacLeod

Meet Clara Hughes -- athlete, Olympic medalist and mental health advocate. Clara is still the only person in the world to ever win multiple medals at both the Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics. But perhaps her biggest accomplishment is the work she has done to help others. Growing up in Winnipeg, Clara liked sports. She wasn''t a top athlete and was headed down a bad path until the fateful day she watched speed skater Gaétan Boucher compete at the 1988 Winter Games. Clara decided she would do that too. It was to be a life-changing decision, one that set her on a course of training, competing and winning at the Olympic level in not just one but TWO sports. But as the world was cheering her on, Clara didn''t feel right inside. She finally realized that winning all the medals in the world wouldn''t make her okay -- she had to work as hard on her mental health as she did on her training. Maybe even harder. Young readers will get the inside story of Clara Hughes''s inspiring life and how she learned to not only take care of herself, but to inspire others to do the same. The Scholastic Canada Biography series focuses on fascinating people who have shaped Canada''s past and present. Written by acclaimed author Elizabeth MacLeod, each book also features comics-inspired illustrations by Mike Deas.

"True stories about dogs whose actions influenced the course of history, including the first seeing-eye dog, search and rescue dogs, and military dogs."--

Ideal to supplement, enhance or enrich any science program! In this STEM workbook, activities and projects provide a balance of core knowledge learning and investigation and application. The focus is on concepts and skills from physical, life, and earth and space Sciences, and on familiarizing students with science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) concepts. Assessment rubrics for success criteria are also included. Features ready-to-go, reproducible activities! Skills covered in this workbook: Physical, Life, Earth and Space Sciences Engineering, Technology, and Applications of Science Informational Text Project-based Activities STEM Occupations About this workbook: Designed for teachers with parents in mind, this workbook is perfect for the classroom and for home! It promotes student confidence, learning, and success and offers the ideal supplement to enhance or enrich any curriculum. This must-have STEM education workbook: Includes manageable activities that reinforce essential skills and concepts Meets and covers curriculum efficiently and effectively Provides a consistent, clear approach

Ideal to supplement, enhance or enrich any science program! In this STEM workbook, activities and projects provide a balance of core knowledge learning and investigation and application. The focus is on concepts and skills from physical, life, and earth and space Sciences, and on familiarizing students with science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) concepts. Assessment rubrics for success criteria are also included. Features ready-to-go, reproducible activities! Skills covered in this workbook: Physical, Life, Earth and Space Sciences Engineering, Technology, and Applications of Science Informational Text Project-based Activities STEM Occupations About this workbook: Designed for teachers with parents in mind, this workbook is perfect for the classroom and for home! It promotes student confidence, learning, and success and offers the ideal supplement to enhance or enrich any curriculum. This must-have STEM education workbook: Includes manageable activities that reinforce essential skills and concepts Meets and covers curriculum efficiently and effectively Provides a consistent, clear approach

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See below for English description. Voici Frederick Banting : docteur, scientifique et gagnant d''un prix Nobel! La remarquable découverte de l''insuline par le Dr Frederick Banting a changé et sauvé la vie de millions de personnes dans le monde... mais ce n''est qu''une partie de son histoire! Quand il était enfant, Frederick Banting a perdu son amie Jennie, atteinte du diabète. Après son décès, Frederick a grandi avec la volonté de lutter contre cette terrible maladie. Il est devenu chirurgien et a soigné des soldats pendant la Première Guerre mondiale. Après la guerre, il a été médecin de famille et a enseigné à l''université. Mais Frederick voulait toujours aider les personnes atteintes de diabète. Un soir, il est frappé par une grande idée : une toute nouvelle façon de traiter la maladie. Frederick convainc un professeur de l''Université de Toronto de lui confier un laboratoire et un assistant, Charles Best. Ensemble, les deux scientifiques travaillent de longues heures et mettent finalement au point l''insuline. Aujourd''hui encore, il s''agit du seul traitement contre le diabète. L''insuline a été appelée « la plus grande invention du Canada » et a sauvé des millions de vies! Meet Frederick Banting - doctor, scientist and Nobel Prize-winner! Dr. Frederick Banting''s remarkable discovery of insulin has changed and saved the lives of millions around the world...but that''s only part of his story! When Frederick Banting was young, his friend Jennie became sick. She had diabetes and soon passed away. Fred grew up determined to do something about this terrible disease. He became a surgeon, helping soldiers in World War I. After the war, he practiced family medicine and taught at a nearby university. But Fred still wanted to help people with diabetes. One night he was struck by a big idea -- a whole new way to treat the disease. Fred convinced a professor at the University of Toronto to give him a lab and an assistant: Charles Best. They worked long hours and finally developed insulin. To this day, insulin is still the only treatment for diabetes. It has saved the lives of millions of people around the world. Original Title: Scholastic Canada Biography: Meet Frederick Banting

See below for English description. Voici Clara Hughes: athlète, médaillée olympique et militante pour la santé mentale. Encore aujourd''hui, Clara est la seule personne au monde à avoir remporté plusieurs médailles aux Jeux olympiques d''été et d''hiver. Mais sa plus grande réussite est sans aucun doute le travail qu''elle a accompli pour aider les autres. Clara, qui a grandi à Winnipeg, a toujours aimé les sports. Elle n''a pas toujours été une athlète de haut niveau. Elle se trouvait même sur une mauvaise pente jusqu''au jour fatidique où elle a regardé le patineur de vitesse Gaétan Boucher, à la télévision, participer aux Jeux d''hiver de 1988. Clara a alors décidé qu''elle ferait la même chose. Cette décision a changé sa vie et l''a conduite à s''entraîner, à concourir et à gagner au niveau olympique dans pas moins de deux sports. Mais alors que le pays tout entier applaudissait ses exploits, Clara ne se sentait pas bien en son for intérieur. Elle a finalement réalisé que gagner toutes les médailles du monde ne lui permettrait pas d''aller mieux: elle devait consacrer autant d''efforts à sa santé mentale qu''à son entraînement. Les jeunes lecteurs découvriront la vie exemplaire de Clara Hughes et comment elle a appris non seulement à prendre soin d''elle, mais aussi à encourager les autres à faire de même. Meet Clara Hughes -- athlete, Olympic medalist and mental health advocate. Clara is still the only person in the world to ever win multiple medals at both the Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics. But perhaps her biggest accomplishment is the work she has done to help others. Growing up in Winnipeg, Clara liked sports. She wasn''t a top athlete and was headed down a bad path until the fateful day she watched speed skater Gaétan Boucher compete at the 1988 Winter Games. Clara decided she would do that too. It was to be a life-changing decision, one that set her on a course of training, competing and winning at the Olympic level in not just one but TWO sports. But as the world was cheering her on, Clara didn''t feel right inside. She finally realized that winning all the medals in the world wouldn''t make her okay -- she had to work as hard on her mental health as she did on her training. Maybe even harder. Young readers will get the inside story of Clara Hughes''s inspiring life and how she learned to not only take care of herself, but to inspire others to do the same. Original title: Scholastic Canada Biography: Meet Clara Hughes

See below for English description. Durant son enfance au début des années 1900, Elsie MacGill s''attendait à accomplir ses rêves... Et c''est exactement ce qu''elle a fait! En 1927, elle devient la première femme diplômée du programme de génie électrique de l''Université de Toronto. Deux ans plus tard, Elsie obtient sa maîtrise en génie aéronautique -- un programme qu''elle a complété à partir de son lit d''hôpital après avoir contracté la polio. Absolument rien au monde n''aurait pu détourner Elsie de sa passion pour l''ingénierie! En 1929, en pleine grande crise, elle devient officiellement ingénieure en aéronautique. À l''époque, elle travaille sur des avions de dernier cri, mais pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, Elsie est responsable de la production à l''échelle canadienne du Hawker Hurricane, un avion-chasseur utilisé par les Forces alliées. Les succès d''Elsie MacGill dépassent largement les frontières de l''ingénierie! Poursuivant le travail déjà entamé par sa mère et sa grand-mère, Elsie se consacre à la lutte pour l''égalité des femmes. Elle deviendra ainsi une experte des droits des femmes et participera à la Commission royale d''enquête sur la situation de la femme au Canada. In this amazing addition to the Biographie en images series, young Canadians will learn about the trailblazing Elsie MacGill, whose work on the Canadian-made Hawker Hurricane fighter helped the Allied forces to victory in World War II. Elsie was born in 1905 to a mother who was a feminist pioneer in her own right. Elsie grew up fully expecting to follow her dreams. And she did. Elsie was the first woman to graduate from the University of Toronto''s electrical engineering program. Elsie went on to earn a master''s in aeronautical engineering -- but contracted polio the day before her convocation. She battled back, and a storied engineering career followed, including being in charge of the tooling and manufacture of the famous Hawker Hurricane. Later in life she was a champion of women''s rights and her work shaped many of the protections we now enjoy. Written by award-winning author Elizabeth MacLeod, this portrait of Elsie MacGill is the first ever written for younger readers. Original title: Scholastic Canada Biography: Elsie MacGill

Août 1914. Quelques semaines auparavant, une terrible guerre a éclaté en Europe et les soldats canadiens ont grand besoin de solides montures afin de les accompagner sur le champ de bataille. C''est ainsi que Bunny, un superbe cheval bai ainsi nommé en raison de ses oreilles un peu longues, débarque sur le sol européen à l''hiver 1915, au terme d''un long voyage en mer. Guidé par son cavalier, Ben Dudas, cette monture formée à la brigade de la police montée de Toronto fait preuve d''un courage qui force l''admiration en affrontant, jour après jour, les gaz toxiques, les bombardements, les mauvaises conditions météorologiques, la faim et les autres horreurs de la guerre afin de livrer des messages, évacuer des blessés du champ de bataille, tirer des ambulances et des charrettes chargées de ravitaillement ou remorquer des armes lourdes. Lorsque Ben décède, la bête éprouvée poursuit son travail sous la gouverne de son frère, Thomas Dundas, jusqu''à ce que la paix soit enfin signée. [SDM].

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"The award-winning Scholastic Canada Biography series highlights the lives of remarkable Canadians whose achievements have inspired and changed the lives of those who followed. Born in 1907, Joseph-Armand grew up in a Valcourt, a small village in Quebec. Like many village places in rural and Northern Canada, Valcourt was often cut off from the world in the winter after snow made the roads impassable. Even when he was a kid, Armand was interested in inventing a vehicle that could drive through snow. As an adult, the passion to invent a snow machine became a serious ambition after his two-year-old son died from appendicitis. It was winter and they could not get him to the hospital. Armand persisted even after many failures, until he finally accomplished his goal. His B7 snow machine was used to deliver milk and mail . . . and it saved lives. But Armand didn’t stop there! He continued to invent and innovate his whole life, developing machines like the Muskeg tractor and the famous Ski-doo, which revolutionized the way people live and work. Written by award-winning author Elizabeth MacLeod, this portrait of Joseph Armand Bombardier couples simple yet compelling writing with comic-flavoured illustrations by Mike Deas that help bring his fascinating story to life!"--

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"Meet Thérèse Casgrain, who battled for equality and social justice, and was the first woman to lead a political party in Canada! From 1916 to 1925, women across Canada were winning the right to vote, province by province... but not in Quebec. It took another fifteen years of protest and the leadership of Thérèse Casgrain for women there to get the right to vote in provincial elections. And that was only the start of Thérèse''s 50-year career. She decided to change things from inside the government too, becoming the first woman to lead a political party in Canada. And although Therese may not have been elected, her decades long fight for equal rights, health care, and world peace is itself a victory."--

Meet Thérèse Casgrain, who battled for women''s equality and social justice, and was the first woman to lead a political party in Canada! The award-winning Scholastic Canada Biography series highlights the lives of remarkable Canadians whose achievements have inspired and changed the lives of those who followed. From 1916 to 1925, women across Canada were starting to win right to vote, province by province . . . but not in Quebec. It took another fifteen years of protest and the leadership of Thérèse Casgrain for women there to begin to win that right. And that was only the start of Thérèse''s 50-year career! She decided to change things from inside the government too, becoming the first woman to lead a political party in Canada. And although Thérèse may not have been elected, her decades-long fight for equal rights, health care, and world peace is in itself a victory. Written by award-winning author Elizabeth MacLeod, this portrait of Thérèse Casgrain couples simple yet compelling writing with comic-flavoured illustrations by Mike Deas that help bring this fascinating story to life!

The success rate of clinical trials for central nervous system (CNS) drugs would be aided by improved identification of pharmacological biomarkers. Electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) are non-invasive methods with the potential to provide these objective measures of CNS drug action. Their simultaneous recording allows the combination of their opposing strengths and mitigation of their opposing weaknesses, including the utilisation of a direct electrophysiological measure of neural activity to help disentangle the neural and physiological contributions to the blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) signal. This thesis aimed to establish the feasibility and effectiveness of simultaneous EEG/fMRI when developing biomarkers for subanaesthetic ketamine and midazolam. Overall, analyses of drug-induced spectral power changes, functional connectivity, and working memory processes reflected prior literature where EEG and fMRI were recorded independently. This allowed confidence that simultaneous imaging was not degrading the data and combined with pre-processing data quality analyses provided evidence for the feasibility of simultaneous EEG/fMRI in a drug study. A recurrent theme throughout the analyses was that of each modality providing unique information. The spectral profiles and representations of working memory processes lacked a clear spatial correspondence between modalities, and formal comparisons of changes to functional connectomes yielded little conclusive evidence of simple relationships between the two signal types. The distinctive information imparted by both modalities instils impetus to develop drug biomarkers in both modalities. Combining information from the EEG and fMRI signals provided biomarker information over that gained from assessing the modalities independently. Temporal correlations between EEG power modulations and the BOLD signal were modified by drug administration. Additionally, comparison of the relative strengths of task-induced changes allowed for more in-depth analysis of the EEG/fMRI relationship. Furthermore, electrophysiological results combined with an assessment of multiple methods to remove BOLD signal artefacts endorsed an argument for tailoring pharmacological fMRI pre-processing to the unique noise structure of each drug under investigation. Combined with other advantages of concurrent recording, such as removing session-to-session variance, these results demonstrated that simultaneous EEG/fMRI is effective at providing information for the development of biomarkers of drug action.

Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and habitats of penguins and elephants.

Shows how the different levels of Canadian government work together, how laws are made and challenged, and why it is important to vote.

«Voici Jim Egan, militant pour l''égalité des droits des personnes LGBTQ2S+ au Canada. Déterminé, Jim Egan insère une feuille de papier dans sa machine à écrire. Il en a assez de ce que les médias écrivent sur les hommes gais. Ce sont ces mensonges remplis de haine qui le poussent à passer à l''action. À cette époque, il est souvent dangereux pour les personnes LGBTQ2S+ de prendre la parole en public. Elles prennent le risque de perdre leur emploi, de se mettre à dos leur famille, de se faire arrêter et d''aller en prison, si ce n''est pire, alors elles vivent leur amour en cachette. Elles n''ont pas non plus les mêmes droits que les personnes hétérosexuelles. Alors Jim écrit lettre après lettre. C''est le premier de tous les combats qu''il mènera durant des décennies... Une lutte pour l''égalité qui n''est toujours pas terminée.»--