Looks at core curriculum science and health topics through the lens of 'Do It Yourself' guides, providing a fun approach and reinforcing knowledge of the instructional text type. Suitable for junior to middle secondary. Ages 8-14.
Discusses the structure of muscles, exploring how muscles work, their role in helping the body move, and various illnesses and injuries that affect muscles.
Readers will learn how forensic scientists identify victims and criminals by examining a variety of different things, such as facial reconstructions, skeletons, remains, and DNA evidence"--Provided by publisher.
Presents an introduction to materials, explaining what they are, looking at the characteristics of different materials, and discussing where they come from, how they are made, and how they are used. Includes related science experiments and demonstrations.
Discuss how the heart and blood deliver necessary substances to the cells throughout the body, how they function, and various diseases and disorders that affect the heart and blood.
Discusses the importance of making healthy food choices, exploring the reasons why people eat, looking at what is in food, explaining food labels, and including recipes and a one-week menu.
The Human Body in Focus concentrates on the different systems of the human body, explaining the physical process that allow us to live, eat, breathe, move, think and reproduce
Exploring the developments, discoveries and inventions that gave rise to the latest medical techniques, this series explains the science behind modern treatments, examines the impact on society, and discusses the moral issues at stake.
Investigate the miracles of the human body. Each book provides an in-depth focus on a vital body part or system, the way it works, and why it occasionally goes wrong. The series also emphasizes the importance of exercise and a healthy lifestyle to keep our bodies in good working order.
Discusses the digestive system, including the different organs and how they work together to digest food, and explains various illnesses that affect the digestive system.
The Human Body in Focus concentrates on the different systems of the human body, explaining the physical process that allow us to live, eat, breathe, move, think and reproduce
Presents an introduction to animal habitats, discussing their different types, food chains, the classification of animals, and the role of predators, along with activites that can be done to investigate each topic.
Describes how the skeleton made up of hundreds of bones supports the body, discussing illnesses and injuries that can effect the body, and ways to keep your bones healthy.
Discover what forces do, and how they affect us. Learn about gravity, friction and pressure, and how to measure different forces. The topic of forces and movement is approached in a simple and clear way. The concepts are complemented by new artwork and specially-commissioned photography featuring children. Each step-by-step experiment has been tried in the classroom and is illustrated with photography which encourages children's understanding. Each book is bright, colourful and simple in its design.
This series looks at developments, inventions and discoveries in science and how a discovery or invention by one individual acn lead to a series of discoveries by others and even a chain of scientific breakthroughs. Each book charts a few connected developments in the particular field of science from first discoveries through to current applications.
Discusses organ transplants, including the history and development of the surgery, which organs can be transplanted, the steps involved in the surgery, and the problems with transplanting organs.
This book discusses the processes that organisms have to carry out to stay alive - from feeding to breathing and reproducing, for example. It explores the different ways in which organisms do these things and offers some experimental projects for readers to do themselves. This title deals with cells which are the building blocks of life.
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