Showing results for "Winter" in Science & Technology

Have you ever wondered what it was like to live without electricity? Before the invention of the light bulb, people had to find ways to live and work around nighttime and darkness. From different sleep schedules to making candles, people found different routines to help illuminate the darkness they experienced each night. Would you have been able to live during this “dark” time in history?

Birds have wings to fly somewhere warm in winter. But worms don’t have wings or even any legs. Where do they go? You will learn all about worms and how they survive when the weather turns cold.

It's cold, snowy, and icy. Winter is here!

How do we know it's winter? The air is cold, and snow falls. Animals look for food. Many plants turn brown, but evergreens stay green. This book shows young listeners how to recognize the changes that happen in winter.

What can you do in the winter? Make a snow hill, snowball, snow fort, snow person, and snow angel. Pair this nonfiction title with its companion fiction book, Snow Clothes.

Carefully leveled text engages young listeners in learning about winter and its changes and adaptations. Age-appropriate critical thinking questions help build nonfiction learning skills.

The trees are bare. Puddles have turned to ice. Birds puff up their feathers to stay warm. Hot cocoa hits the spot! Do you know what season is here? It’s winter! What else happens in winter? Listen to this audiobook to find out!

Wie kann man Pilze selbst züchten? Woher kommt die Bezeichnung ,,Altweibersommer“? Welches Futter bekommen Vögel? Ob Frühling, Sommer, Herbst oder Winter – mit Pettersson und Findus wird es nie langweilig. Auf einer Reise durch die Jahreszeiten Herbst und Winter erfahren Sie vieles über Pflanzen für draußen und drinnen, und was Sie in der Natur alles entdecken können. Erfahre auch, wie schnell beispielsweise, ein Winterquartier für den Marienkäfer herzustellen ist.

From Buffy Silverman, author of On a Gold-Blooming Day and On a Snow-Melting Day, comes the third installment of a seasonal celebration. With winter's arrival, plants and animals hunker down for the cold season. Rhyming text sparkles in this wonderful story that encourages kids to closely observe the natural world.

¡Hay nieve en el suelo, y los carámbanos se están formando! Debe ser invierno. Descubra qué tipo de actividades la gente hace en el invierno.

Critically acclaimed children’s author Jonah Winter reimagines a true story from 1987. The small Long Island town of Islip has a big problem - 3,168 tons of garbage and no place to put it! So workers pile the smelly refuse on a large barge, hire a tug boat, and send the stuff south to find a final resting place. But as the barge travels from North Carolina to New Orleans and from Mexico to Belize - nobody wants Islip’s rotting mountain of garbage.