Measure Up with Science
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This series looks at how and why we measure, encouraging children to discover for themselves how standard measuring sytems have developed. Children can make their own measuring tools, based on authentic ancient and modern instruments. There are experiments to try and a list of important events shows the history of measuring. The book is suitable for National Curriculum Science, Maths and History at Key Stage 2. This book examines distance, from cubit ropes to road measurers, including the history of the imperial and metric systems, drawing to scale and painting with perspective.
Explores the elements of counting, including numerals, ratios, the abacus, and counting rhymes.
This series looks at how and why we measure, encouraging children to discover for themselves how standard measuring sytems have developed. Children can make their own measuring tools, based on authentic ancient and modern instruments. There are experiments to try and a list of important events shows the history of measuring. The book is suitable for National Curriculum Science, Maths and History at Key Stage 2. This book examines time, from ancient calendars to photo-finishes, including day and night, the seasons, time-zones, timetables and the 24-hour clock.
This book is part of a series which looks at why and how we measure, encouraging children to discover for themselves how standard measuring systems have developed. Children can make their own measuring tools, based on authentic ancient and modern instruments. There are lots of experiments to try and problems to think about, and at the back of each book, a list of important events shows the history of measuring at a glance. This book examines the topic of temperature from glaciers to greenhouses, including hot and cold places on Earth, warm-blooded and cold-blooded animals, insulators and conductors of heat, and the history of the centigrade scale.
This series looks at how and why we measure, encouraging children to discover for themselves how standard measuring sytems have developed. Children can make their own measuring tools, based on authentic ancient and modern instruments. There are experiments to try and a list of important events shows the history of measuring. The book is suitable for National Curriculum Science, Maths and History at Key Stage 2. This book examines speed, from the first Olympic games in ancient Greece to the speed of sound, including how speed is measured on land, sea and in the air.