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Muddy Creek in Edgewater, Maryland is the site of a major makeover. The land around the stream has worn down. Find out what caused Muddy Creek to erode, and the many steps involved in saving it. Created in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, this Smithsonian Informational Text builds students' reading skills while engaging their curiosity about STEAM topics through real-world examples. It features a hands-on STEAM challenge that guides students through every step of the engineering design process and is perfect for makerspace activities. It makes STEAM career connections by...

Many animals live in water, but only some can be defined as fish. Twenty-eight thousand species of fish exist, each with different characteristics. Readers from grades one through four will learn that fish have a distinct impact on their ecosystem and will see how fish survive when well-adapted to an uncompromised environment. Beautiful photographs demonstrate the great diversity of fish and accompany intellectually stimulating explanations of their varying roles and traits. From page to page, what a fish is unfolds in vocabulary call-outs, insightful questions, and relatable...

La estética de la Baja Edad Media, de la mano de la escolástica, aporta a la metafísica de la proporción y a la metafísica de la luz un sistema conceptual. Ésta es, de hecho, la “primera sistematización” del vocabulario estético. La antigüedad había trabajado ciertos contenidos de este vocabulario, pero no había construido ningún sistema que garantizara un cierto rigor de uso. Será la Baja Edad Media, gracias al énfasis puesto en la obra aristotélica y especialmente en el “organon”, la que ofrecerá a la estética su primera sistematización conceptual que, además,...

Frente al espejo es una conversación íntima entre amigos. Una confesión con el ánimo de agradecer a la vida. Un repaso en un momento crucial. Un poner por escrito lo que nunca se ha dicho. Una forma de sincerarse frente al espejo.

Introduces young readers to the number two with simple text and photographs of items in groups of two.