Showing results for "Firsts" in Social Studies

This series is a thank-you to emergency workers! Each title will look into an emergency worker job, the training it takes, and what a day in the life looks like.

Sometimes it can be hard to find books that interest us. With the help of a librarian, reading can be fun. This book helps listeners better understand why librarians are the real MVPs at school.

As citizens we get to choose who our leaders are. We also get to help set the rules. This audiobook encourages young listeners to learn more about elections.

Big rigs can have eighteen wheels, sometimes more! With all the goods they carry around, they have to be big.

Based on the research that race, gender, justice, and other important topics should be discussed with toddlers on up, this read-aloud series offers adults the opportunity to begin important conversations with young children in an informed, safe, and supported way. Developed by experts in the...

Young listeners will learn to distinguish between the things they really need (food and clothing) and the things they want (toys!) in this fun, fresh look at wants and needs.

How does a doctor's day start? How does it end? What are the most important character traits for doctors to have? Follow doctors in a hospital as they work to keep people healthy and happy. These health heroes do the important work of caring for patients. Discover the tools doctors use as they work with other hospital staff to care for patients. Like all health heroes, they make sure the needs of the patient come first. Meet a real doctor from Mayo Clinic, and find out how these health heroes save the day, every day!

In the 1920s cotton buyer Earle Dickson worked for Johnson & Johnson and had a klutzy wife who often cut herself. The son of a doctor, Earle set out to create an easier way for her to bandage her injuries. Band-Aids were born, but Earle's bosses at the pharmaceutical giant weren't convinced, and it wasn't until the Boy Scouts of America tested Earle's prototype that this ubiquitous household staple was made available to the public.