These photographic books provide an excellent introduction to different materials and their properties. Each book concentrates on a particular material, and uses imaginative language and child-friendly pictures to describes its characteristics. It then goes on to highlight the connection between the material's properties and how that material is used in the world around us. As well as describing a material and explaining how it is produced and used, the text also includes questions and activities to encourage children to think about and handle materials.
These photographic books provide an excellent introduction to different materials and their properties. Each book concentrates on a particular material, and uses imaginative language and child-friendly pictures to describes its characteristics. It then goes on to highlight the connection between the material's properties and how that material is used in the world around us. As well as describing a material and explaining how it is produced and used, the text also includes questions and activities to encourage children to think about and handle materials.
One of a series of non-fiction books for children working at Key Stage One, this book looks at the properties of wood, familiar things that are made from wood and where the material comes from.
One of a series of non-fiction books for children working at Key Stage One, this book looks at the properties of metal, familiar things that are made from metal and where the material comes from.
One of a series of non-fiction books for children working at Key Stage One, this book looks at the properties of paper, familiar things that are made from paper and where the material comes from.
This is an innovative new body series with commissioned photos and detailed anatomical illustrations to show children how their bodies work inside and out. They can find out how they move, eat, see, think and feel. The series looks at what goes on inside the body during everyday activities such as riding a bike, eating an apple, reading a book or doing a sum. Each book shows how the body can become ill and how to keep healthy. There are also explanations of common disabilities.What happens inside your eyes when you read a magazine or watch a film? In this book you can see for yourself how your eyes form pictures, how they focus on objects close up or far away, and how they let you see in colour. There is information on how your eyes need looking after, how glasses work and also how blindness occurs.
One of a series of non-fiction books for children working at Key Stage One, Claire Llewellyn's introduction to electricity considers the different ways we use it on a daily basis, where it comes from and the safety factors we have to think about when using it.