Children’s / Teenage general interest: Physical world

From brilliantly colored birds and wild elephants to towering trees and exotic flowers, rain forests are home to more than half of Earth's plants and animals.

Nearly all living things depend on Earth's land and its resources to survive.

Every living thing on our planet needs air to survive.

Do you know what a blizzard is?

An introduction to the basic characteristics of plateaus.

An introduction to the basic characteristics of plains.

An introduction to the basic characteristics of a mountain.

An introduction to the basic characteristics of an island.

An introduction to the basic characteristics of a coast.

A basic introduction to what you see on a windy day.

A basic intrduction to what you see on a sunny day.

A basic introduction to what you see on a snowy day

A basic introduction to what you see on a rainy day.

A basic introduction to the characteristics of clouds.

Did you know that electric current can be controlled?

Have you ever seen lights turn on automatically when you step into a room?

Have you ever wondered how the lights in your alarm clock work?

Did you know that trees, buildings, and even people can act as conductors for electricity?

Have you ever wondered how electricity powers your home or school?

Have you ever wondered how a set of batteries power the remote for your TV?

What do apples, rice, and corn have in common?

This book takes emergent readers on a conceptual walk through a fall setting, looking at basic concepts such as color and shape through a close examination of beautiful fall leaves.

Let's go to the pumpkin patch to find huge pumpkins, tiny pumpkins, and maybe even a blue pumpkin!

In fall animals prepare for a long, cold winter.

What is fall weather like where you live?

Take a trip to the apple orchard to examine basic concepts such as size, shape, and color as they apply to apples.

Perch on top of a skyscraper with the Stickmen, then descend to street level and travel below to see all the layers of a city.

Splash with the Stickmen at the sea's surface, and then dive down through the darkening zones and into the abyss.

Slide down through the layers of planet Earth, from mountaintops to molten core.

Teeter on the edge of outer space with the Stickmen.

Look!

Yikes!

Wow!

Tornado siren!

Ping!

Boom!

In 1846, the eighty-seven members of the Donner Party left Illinois to begin a new life in California.

In 1607, settlers from England established the Jamestown colony in North America.

In August 2005, a massive hurricane hit New Orleans and much of the Gulf Coast.

On January 12, 1888, a sudden blizzard barreled across Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and the Dakota Territory.

On October 8, 1871, a fierce fire broke out in the bustling city of Chicago.

In the mid-1840s, potato blight ruined the crops of impoverished farmers across Ireland.

Around the world, from US coastal towns to island nations of the Pacific and the deserts of Africa, people are in danger of losing their homes.

The deciduous forest biome is filled with leafy trees.

The desert biome can be found all around the world.

Winter lasts a long time in the evergreen forest biome.

The grassland is covered with tall grasses and plants.

There are lakes in each biome on the planet.

The ocean is the largest biome on Earth.

The rain forest biome is filled with many kinds of plants and animals.