On File "TM" is our award-winning collection of visual reference materials. Each On File "TM" depicts complex subjects in a way that both engages and informs students and researchers. These flexible resources fit into every curriculum.
-- Instructors can use the pages for handouts, overheads, posters, and testing.
-- Students can use them as quick sources of information, to reference curriculum topics, or to supplement their essays and reports.
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-- All of the maps, charts, diagrams, and illustrations are designed in clean black-and-white graphics and are printed on sturdy pages.
-- Pages are housed in durable three-ring binders.
-- Replacement pages are available if they are lost or stolen.The Fundamentals of Science for Young Students
Loaded with the kind of visual information that kids grasp easily, Junior Science On File "TM" provides young people with a firm, lasting understanding of the ways science works in the world around them -- how simple machines operate, how photosynthesis happens, how the body moves, why earthquakes occur, and much more.
Designed to complement today's science curricula, over 250 imaginative pages cover a full range of subjects, from microorganisms to the human body, from plate tectonics to the solar system.
A versatile and practical collection, Junior Science On File "TM" can be used for a variety of purposes: as a guide to the sciences for students, as a reference source of images for photocopied handouts and overhead projections, as a basis for tests, and much more.
Partial Table ofContents:
Units
Length
Mass
Area
Volume
Density
Time
Speed
Physical Sciences
Making Crystals
Kinds of Energy
How a Refrigerator Works
Making Electricity with Magnets
Making Magnets with Electricity
Plants, Animals, and Microorganisms
Helpful Fungi
In the Past: Prehistoric Animals
How Plants Produce Food
The Work of the Bee
The Environment
Nitrogen Cycle
Earth's Biomes
Ocean Food Web
Growing Populations
Disappearing Rainforests
Endangered Species
The Human Body
Escaping Pain: The Reflex
Controlling the Body: The Brain
Waste Products: The Excretory System
Female Reproductive System
Male Reproductive System
Earth Science
The Structure of the Earth
How Earthquakes Happen
The San Andreas Fault
How Fossils Were Formed
Geological Timetable
Coral Reefs
Weather and Climate
Distribution of the Sun's Energy
The Greenhouse Effect
Land and Sea Breezes
Why It Rains
Measuring Wind
Weather Map
Space Science
Phases of the Moon
International Time Zones
Asteroids
How a Star Changes
Space Shuttle Take-off
Telescopes.
- ISBN10 0816027064
- ISBN13 9780816027064
- Publish Date 31 March 1994
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 January 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Facts On File Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English