Readers will learn what chemical reactions are, how they work, what changes happen during reactions, and how we can stop reactions.
Authors Richard and Louise Spilsbury use simple language to explain what light is. Readers explore reflections and bending light; how our eyes work; and how lenses, mirrors, and telescopes work. Throughout the book, interesting hands-on activities reinforce the text.
This book introduces readers to a range of endangered animals found in Asia. Readers learn basic facts about each animal, and also why the animal's habitat is threatened. The book also considers what people can do to help, both at an international level and at the level of the readers themselves. Habitat maps, fact boxes, labels, and captions all combine to aid understanding.
One of a series of titles covering the Key Stage 1 curriculum on plants. Topics covered include habitats, classification, growth and reproduction.
What are flowers for ? Lots of plants grow bright, colorful flowers. Flowers make seeds. Seeds grow into new plants. Plants and animals have young that grow up to be like them. This is called reproduction. Cats have kittens, birds lay eggs, and most plants make seeds.
Following on from the hugely successful "Start-Up Science", "Step-Up Science" has been created specifically to support the schemes of work in the Science Curriculum at KS2 - the next step up! Highly illustrated with colour photographs and diagrams, this series is designed to encourage investigative skills and covers a wide range of living things, materials and phenomena.