You and Your Body
You, Me and Technology Series
The Young Geographer Investigates Series
Young Scientist Series
Your Eyes
Your Nose and Ears
Your Senses Series
Your Universe
The Zookeeper
You and Your Body (Print-Non-Fiction). Arnold Willems, et al. (Let's Discover Series). Raintree Publishers, Milwaukee (NEL), 1986. 78 p. ISBN 0-8172-2589-7 ($16.95 pbk.)
A simple overview of the human body with special sections on the brain and senses, health and illness, reproduction, and families. Filled with photos and illustrations. A good reference book. Table of contents, glossary and index included. Metric measures.
Suggested Use:
Grade 4 - Cells and Systems; Nutrition and Digestion, Senses
Grade 5 - Human Circulation and Breathing
You, Me and Technology Series (Videotape). Please refer to the title The Technology Spiral.
The Young Geographer Investigates Series (Print-Non-Fiction). Please refer to the titles: The Earth, Our Universe, and Volcanoes and Earthquakes.
Young Scientist Series (Print-Non-Fiction). Please refer to the titles: Electric Power, Flowering Plants, Levers and Ramps, Soil, Solar Power, and Water Power.
Your Eyes (Print-Non-Fiction). Joan Iveson-Iveson. (All About You Series). Wayland, East Sussex, England (NEL), 1985. 24 p. ISBN 0-85078-516-2 ($13.50 hdc.)
Discusses what eyes are for, how the eye works, seeing problems, eyecolour, blindness, visiting the optician, looking after your eyes. Larger print, colourful photos. Explained simply but well. Table of contents, glossary and index included.
Suggested Use:
Grade 1 - Senses
Grade 4 - Light, Senses
Your Nose and Ears (Print-Non-Fiction). Joan Iveson-Iveson. (All About You Series). Wayland, East Sussex, England (NEL), 1985. 24 p. ISBN 0-85078-544-8 ($13.50 hdc.)
Explains the important things about the ears and nose. Covers breathing, sense of smell, looking after your nose, how hearing works, balance, deafness, and looking after your ears. Explained simply, but well. Colour photos and larger print. Table of contents, glossary and index included.
Suggested Use:
Grade 1 - Senses
Grade 3 - Sound
Grade 4 - Senses
Your Senses Series (Print-Non-Fiction). Please refer to the titles: Hearing, Sight, Smell, Taste, and Touch.
Your Universe (Software). Focus Media, Garden City, New York (EBP), 1985. Set includes three 5 1/4" disks, backups and teacher's guide, Apple II. Order No. EB7501A ($148.50 set)
Your Universe, includes 3 programs: "The Earth", "The Solar System" and "The Weather". These programs provide students with information, challenging questions, and competitive games. "Earth" covers the origin of the earth, the earth's structures and composition, erosion, volcanoes, earthquakes, geysers, and continential drift. "The Solar System" introduces the sun, the planets and their moons, asteroids and comets and the concepts of orbits, rotation, gravity and centrifugal force. "The Weather" focuses on the atmosphere, climates, humidity, evaporation, cloud formation and types, precipitation, the water cycle, and destructive storms.
Suggested Use:
Grade 4 - Fossils and Rocks, Predicting Weather
Grade 6 - Earthquakes and Volcanoes, Exploring Space; Earth's
Climate
The Zookeeper (Videotape). (Harriet's Magic Hats III Series). ACCESS Network, Calgary (MGR), 1985. 14:30 min. Available for duplication, Order No. V02570. Teacher's guide for series available, (BB) Order No. 5894 ($4.95 pbk.)
Ashley, the student, visits Aunt Harriet's friend Alice, the zookeeper, and discovers how zoos care for animals, including those that are endangered or injured. She learns how zookeepers use computers to ensure animals receive a nutritionally balanced diet and feeds some of the animals.
Suggested Use:
Kindergarten
Grade 1 - Animals
Grade 2 - Habitats
Grade 3 - Animals