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Endocrine System: Adventure 8
SKU
083591
ISBN
9780998819754
Grade 3-7
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Description
Travel to 1950s Cuba and meet a baseball team to learn the importance of working together, like the Endocrine System does, to regulate, control and coordinate your bodily functions. Human sexuality or reproduction is not covered, although the ovaries, testes, and gonads are part of the endocrine system and the function of hormones is covered.
Publisher's Description of Endocrine System: Adventure 8
FINALLY, A HUMAN ANATOMY BOOK THAT YOUR KIDS WILL LOVE!
This award-winning workbook does far more than teach your child about the endocrine system.
Join us as we grow our knowledge on the endocrine system! Travel to 1950s Cuba and meet the baseball team, The Sabuesos, and learn the importance of how to work together - just as your Endocrine System does - to regulate, control, and coordinate your bodily functions. Through an artful combination of hands-on learning, storytelling, world cultures, and engaging activities, this workbook guides your children on a journey of self discovery and an understanding of what they are made of.
Inside Adventure 8, you will find fun endocrine system activities for kids that include experiments, crafts, comics, word games, recipes, and more! Recommended Ages: For independent learning, we recommend ages 8 and up. However, these workbooks are suitable for all ages, including parents too! Teaches young learners about their endocrine system through a multidisciplinary approach integrating literacy, science, social studies, health/wellness, art, and more!
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Know Yourself has had the great fortune of working with a team of parents, educators, writers, doctors, scientists, artists, researchers and filmmakers in creating this original, educational, award-winning content. We thank them all for their time, their passion, and their expertise in helping make Know Yourself a reality.
Category Description for Know Yourself
Know Yourself is a publishing company on a mission to help students gain foundational skills in personal health literacy: the basic understanding of how the body functions; knowing how to listen to the body and learn what it needs; and making right choices to be healthy and happy. In order to fulfill this mission, Know Yourself has developed numerous supplements that may be used at home or in a school setting.
Category Description for Systems Of The Body: Adventure Series (Dr. Bonyfide)
Learning is meant to be an adventure and this theme-based series provides a cross curricular adventure your children won't easily forget! Self-pacing adventures offer a quick start guide, pacing calendar (each Adventure has a suggested pacing of 14-15 hours; or approx. 1 month), supply checklist, numerous activities and step-by-step projects, a time traveling comic, recipes, and an introduction to the human body topic, fun history facts and geography! Each topical adventure begins with a brightly illustrated "Time Skaters Adventure" graphic novel to get children excited about learning. Following this, are the textual pages that dive into the history, geography, and science. Pages are well-illustrated with a larger font making it easier for younger ones to read and see key information. Activity workbook pages vary. Coloring, drawing, fill-in- the-blank, and crosswords are examples. Hands-on projects are well thought out and use easy to find items. In the chapter entitled The Circulatory System, students learn how blood flows by creating mock plasma with red and white blood cells. In The Skeletal System, students build a human skeleton using the included templates. Learners are also introduced to the Cyrillic alphabet and common Russian phrases. Cooking Classes include recipes that align with the historical time-period and location of the adventure. Here is a sampling of the yummy recipes included: Koftas with yogurt sauce, Sushki (Russian tea bread), and Chinese Dumplings. Books conclude with a cumulative review and include summarizing information or open-ended journaling or application questions. Answers to the Activity worksheets are included. Additional reading resources are also included. Spark lifelong learning with this fun and engaging introduction to our bodies and history. Your children will thank you! Not reproducible. See individual titles from the Adventure Series for more information.
Details
| Product Format: | Paperback |
|---|---|
| Brand: | Know Yourself |
| Grades: | 3-7 |
| ISBN: | 9780998819754 |
| Length in Inches: | 11 |
| Width in Inches: | 8.5 |
| Height in Inches: | 0.3125 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 0.85 |
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