Lisa Jane Gillespie - Böcker

How do trees use their leaves to make food? Why do they grow flowers and fruit? Which animals live inside a tree trunk and build nests in its branches? How can we help to protect trees? This book has all the answers and much more, along with photographs, step-by-step illustrations, simple text and links to websites with video clips and activities.Chapters in this book include:- A leafy world- Standing tall- Growing strong- Food factories- Types of trees- Changing seasons- Fancy flowers- Tasty treats- Hanging on- Tree houses- Tough trees- Crawling with life- Trees in trouble- Protecting trees

An approachable introduction to what chemistry is, how it works and why it is vital to everyday life. Topics include: the periodic table, atom structure and radiation, and the scientific method, all illustrated with humorous illustrations and diagrams. With simple experiments to aid learning and internet links to recommended websites to find out more.Chapters in this book include:Introduction- What's chemistry all about?- How have chemists changed the world?What's the world made of?- What's an atom?- What's what?- Getting in a state- Molecules in the air- Knowing your properties- Sorting out substancesHow does it all work?- What's inside an atom?- The Periodic Table- How do shells work?- Sticking together?- Nuclear reactions- A brief history of atomsLets make things happen!- Reactions: the basics- Ready, steady, react!- Writing down reactions- Weird and wonderful reactions- All kinds of reactionsHow is chemistry useful?- Carbon chemistry- All about metals- Using gases- What about non metals?- Chemical Curiosities- How to tell what's whatOur chemical Universe- Where did the elements come from?- Rocks are chemicals too- What's up in the air?- Living chemistry- How does your body work?More about chemistry- Chemistry through the ages- How does chemistry work?

This book contains the following Usborne titles: What's biology all about?, What's chemistry all about? and What's physics all about? An accessible and informative guide to physics, chemistry and biology, how they work and how they apply to everyday life. Covers all the key science topics including electricity, the periodic table and the human body. Includes simple experiments and internet-links to recommended websites to find out more. Illustrated with humorous drawings, cartoons and diagrams.

Vibrant and straight-talking, this illustrated dictionary will help children develop firm foundations for confidence and success in science from UK Key Stage 2 onwards. Contains clear definitions of over 700 key terms and concepts, with hundreds of useful examples and illustrations. Readers can dip in for quick explanations or read through by subject to grasp the essentials. A perfect accompaniment to homework, and with links to recommended science websites for further information.

Open the giant fold-out pages of this bright, friendly book to discover some of the biggest and most amazing tractors ever built - and some little ones too. Colourful pictures show all kinds of machines, from combine harvesters to snow and sea tractors, with facts about their special equipment. Includes links to video clips to see tractors at work.The book covers different types of tractors, and the machines they pull, as well as showing some very specific - and absolutely MASSIVE - tractors.