How can you bend water with a ruler? What makes grass green? How do machines work? What happens if you add raisins to a fizzy drink? Why don't seals freeze in icy water? Can anything stop paper clips from sinking? This book will show you how to discover the answers to these questions and more - making you think like a scientist in a few simple steps.
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- 2025
- 2024
Explore the fascinating age of dinosaurs through a 300-piece jigsaw puzzle and an informative fold-out timeline. The beautifully illustrated jigsaw features various dinosaurs, complete with their names and timelines of their existence. The detailed timeline spans from the Triassic to the Cretaceous period, offering insights into each dinosaur's habitat, size, diet, and other intriguing facts on the reverse side. This engaging set provides both a fun activity and an educational experience for dinosaur enthusiasts.
- 2024
Drawing on key research from cognitive science, this book explores how metacognition works in practice and argues that it is a complex skill best developed over months and years at school. It provides a blueprint for how ‘learning to learn’ alongside ‘quick wins’ that teachers can implement straight away.
- 2023
Explore the fascinating world of dinosaurs through a 300-piece jigsaw puzzle that features a variety of dinosaurs alongside their names and time periods. The accompanying fold-out timeline provides a detailed overview of dinosaur history, spanning from the Triassic to the Cretaceous period. The reverse side offers additional insights, including habitat, size, diet, and intriguing facts about each dinosaur, making it an educational and engaging experience for dinosaur enthusiasts.
- 2023
A practical guide for teachers on the workings of human memory.
- 2022
The history of our amazing planet unfolds at a glance in this graphic timeline. From the Big Bang to the present day, discover the wonders of our ever-changing planet as you fold out this brightly illustrated book. Then turn it over to find out how, through billions of years of volcanic eruptions, ice ages and mass extinctions, life on Earth has emerged.
- 2020
Tales of Brave and Brilliant Girls from Around the World
- 192 pages
- 7 hours of reading
In a world filled with adventure, a girl battles dragons, showcasing her courage and resilience. Alongside her, a fierce warrior queen embodies strength and leadership. The narrative also follows a daughter on a quest to find her Samurai father, intertwining themes of bravery, familial bonds, and the quest for identity. These characters embark on journeys that challenge their limits and redefine their destinies in a richly imagined setting.
- 2020
Fold-Out Dinosaur Timeline
- 16 pages
- 1 hour of reading
Discover the amazing age of dinosaurs as you fold out this superbly illustrated scene. Then turn it over to find out when each dinosaur lived, what they ate, and other fascinating facts. With Quicklinks to specially selected websites with video clips, activities and a dinosaur name pronunciation guide.
- 2020
Philosophy for Beginners
- 128 pages
- 5 hours of reading
Philosophy is a way of thinking about just about anything. It asks big questions from nature of reality to what beauty is. Using lively examples and thought experiments, this book provides an accessible introduction to a wide range of philosophical questions and invites the reader think about things in ways they may not have done before. Cartoons, comic strips and diagrams offer simple explanations of big ideas. Suitable for adults and children alike - a brilliant resource for anyone looking to learn about philosophy. Explores big questions in philosophy including the nature of morality, do we have free will, whether knowledge is really possible and how we can justify government.
- 2019
Exam Board: SQA Level: Higher Subject: Psychology First Teaching: 2018, First Exam: 2019 Three books in one! Combining a revision guide, practice question book and full set of practice test papers, this fantastic resource is all you need to revise for the new 2019 exam.
