New Releases by Mary Kay Carson

Student Book

Reproducible Journal Pages With Instant No-Mess Mini Experiments That Invite Kids to Learn and Write About Weather, Human Body, Space, and Other Science Topics You Teach Write About Science! These ready-to-go, reproducible journals combine simple hands-on experiments with thought-provoking prompts that encourage kids to learn and write about science. Students dissect seeds, build a model of an eclipse, and read a weather map.

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun, and has been referred to as the Red Planet. Young readers will find out about spacecraft that have traveled to Mars, and learn about plans to send people there in the near future. This title received the Learning Magazine Teachers'' Choice Award.

How they Invented the Airplane includes facts about these brothers and their invention, plus projects.

Pictures of frightening-looking animals, including insects, bats, fish, eels and other creatures, with explanations for their appearance.

Build students Internet skills as they expand their knowledge of stars, moons, planets, space exploration, and more. This book offers more than 100 space Web sites, plus reproducible graphic organizers that help students record the information they gather. Using this information, students build a star life-cycle mobile, write their own myth about a constellation, create travel brochures of the planets, complete a timeline of historic space events, and more! For use with Grades 3-6."

Teaches nonfiction guided reading using books that support the social studies and science curricula.

The latest information plus easy hands-on activities and reproducibles that teach about all kinds of weather -- from mild to wild!

From an easy-to-make weather station to a read-aloud-play, this activity-packed book has tons of fun projects to help teach children all about weather. Illustrations.

This book discusses the different types of epilepsy and the seizures that result. It details the workings of the nervous system and the effect that epilepsy may have on people''s lives. The history, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and future areas of research for the disease are covered. Real life stories are mixed in throughout the book.

Explores the topic of epilepsy, discussing its history, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and possible ways to prevent some forms of the disease.

Organized into five main sections, each section begins with general information about a space topic and is followed by a variety of student activities and reproducible pages related to that topic.

Find out fascinating facts about weird creatures like lizards, insects, and sea creatures.