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Humorous cartoons focus on words and their meanings.

300 cartoons present visual puns that serve as memory aids related to the word's meaning.

Cartoons come with target word, definition, and sample sentences that show how the word is used.
To reinforce memory retention, SAT-style sentence completion exercises follow every set of 12 cartoons.

Dozens of fun, hands-on projects and activities from frontier days.

Join twelve-year-old Tom, his eleven-year-old sister, Amy, and their little brother, Tad, in Wyoming Territory in 1878. Share the fun, adventure, and hard work of daily life in the Wild West. You'll discover exciting games, make toys and crafts, and perform everyday activities just like Tom, Amy, and Tad.

Make your own ranch-style scrambled eggs and cook up a batch of delicious sourdough flapjacks. Paint an Acoma bowl, build a model pueblo, make a pioneer cap to wear, or weave a basket from a few simple materials. You can twist together a lariat to wear as a belt, or practice knot tying--that is, if you have time after the mustang-and-cowboys board game or the party pi?ata project.

Wild West Days is filled with interesting historical information and fun facts about growing up in days gone by. Discover how different--and how similar--life was for American kids in history.

Watch for Civil War Days, the next exciting book in the American Kids in History series!

Also available: Pioneer Days and Colonial Days.

For children ages 8 to 12

-- Highly visual introductions explain each scientific field-- Safe, simple projects and experiments can be performed with ordinary household items

Practical suggestions help educators use technology effectively. This book has plenty of lesson plans for all areas of the curriculum. The lessons are complete with teaching tips and software recommendations.

This revised edition of the bestselling SCHOLASTIC FIRST DICTIONARY has been completely redesigned to reflect the vocabulary and interests of early elementary school children.

Definitions for approximately 1,500 headwords have been carefully chosen to help build on the vocabulary of young children. Six hundred full-color photographs further illustrate their meanings. Each entry has been designed to provide readers with easy to understand definitions, as well as alternate forms for nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Illustrative example sentences following each headword are clearly written to help show children what words mean and how they should be used. In addition, each entry is followed by a simple phonetic pronunciation guide.

A resource book for any curriculum, and a treasure trove for designing your own unit studies! Directions and ideas for using "foldables" are in COLOR in the first part of the book. The rest is clearly organized resource material for physical science, astronomy, earth science, and biology. Topics are broken down into concise lists of activity suggestions along with the skill the activity teaches. Ex: Under the Caves page in earth science, "compare and contrast: precipitation and dissolution; inside and outside of a cave, including temperature, life, or light; dry and wet cave systems; past and present use of caves by humans". Ideas for foldables to use with these concepts are given. A tangible, fun, reviewable way to record information! Uses an immersion style of learning, is inquiry based, allows creative juices to flow, and puts students in charge of their own learning. (Assembly of Lap Books is not shown. Check out The Ultimate Lap Book Handbook for more information about lap books.)

Jam-packed with information, photographs, charts and maps for additional study and research.