Creator: Encyclopedia Britannica Editorial
Edition: Revised
Publication date: 2008-03
List Price: $936.25
Price: $616.57
Review Compton's by Britannica (26v) / Encyclopedia Britannica, Incorporated:Encourage research, fact-finding and discovery with an engaging encyclopedia created especially for students aged 10 to 17. "The 2008 Compton's by Britannica" has been thoroughly reviewed, updated and revised by educators, expert contributors and Britannica editors. Packed with dramatic pictures, detailed diagrams and engaging text, "Compton's" gives young readers the basic facts and entices advanced students to dig deeper for the answers to their more complex questions. Designed to inspire ambition and stimulate the imagination, Compton's is perfect for any family's home library. What's more, the beautiful new set is sure to upgrade your home library bookshelves, with inviting covers and a stunning spine design. Ideal for home, school and library use, "Compton's by Britannica" covers important educational subjects such as maths, science, geography and history and provides students with the accurate information they need for school projects and homework. It is the single source for a wide range of topics across the secondary school curriculum. It helps develop essential research and reference skills. It develops students' confidence in learning. An ideal resource for completing school and homework projects, it provides answers for curious minds in an easy-to-read style. [+]It features more than 37,000 articles, 23,000 maps, charts, tables, and images. It is a handy guide that organises the information in each volume by subject, article and page number. Interesting questions introduce each volume. Biographies and glossary terms are related to each article. This title features: fact finders - convenient cross reference guides; previews - tables of contents to help readers quickly locate major subdivisions; time lines - outlines that illustrate the broad sweep of events; and, Volume 26 - The Fact Index - a mini-encyclopedia with over 29,800 short articles as well as a standard index.
Edition: Bilingual
Publication date: 2007-03-30
List Price: $614.90
Price: $614.90
Review My Letter Library/ Titulos del Abecedario (My Letter Library/ Titulos Del Abecedario) / Dingles/Treehouse Court:
Publication date: 1997-12-11
Dewey code: 741.58
List Price: $150.00
Price: $625.00
Review PINOCCHIO / Disney Editions:
Publication date: 2008-07
Dewey code: 909
List Price: $624.00
Price: $624.00
Review Looking at Countries Complete Set (Looking at Countries) / Gareth Stevens Publishing:
Creator: Gareth Stevens Editorial Staff
Publication date: 2002-07-02
Dewey code: 973
List Price: $621.40
Price: $621.40
Review World Almanac Library of the States (World Almanac Library of the States (52 Titles)) / Gareth Stevens Publishing:
Publication date: 2007-09-06
Price: $622.41
Review Maths Investigator: MI4 Interactive CD / Oxford University Press:Maths Investigator is a secret spy agency whose mission is to make maths fun and exciting. The series has been extensively trialled and developed to offer schools a fresh and exciting way to combine the content and structure of the 2006 Mathematics Framework with the principles of the Primary Strategy 'Excellence and Enjoyment' guidance - to raise standards whilst making learning fun. The Maths Investigator approach focuses on developing the key skills of problem solving, speaking and listening, and using and applying maths. It uses the engaging spy context to integrate maths into problem solving and give pupils a clear purpose for learning. The Interactive CD sits at the heart of the Maths Investigator resources, enabling teachers to embed ICT seamlessly into teaching and learning. Used alongside the Teacher's Guide units and Casebook, this unique resource offers a truly integrated learning experience perfect for display on interactive whiteboards. Animated messages from 'M' - the head of the Maths Investigator spy agency - excite and motivate children, whilst intuitive and powerful teaching tools (including the NNS ITPs and useful mind-mapping software) use familiar models and images to support teaching of mathematical concepts. Clear navigation provides one-touch links to all supporting resources needed to run the lessons and simple, editable planning screens enable teachers to add links to their own resources.
Publication date: 1889
Review Babes of the nations: New illustrations in colors and monotint / F.A. Stokes & brother:
Creator: K. Dutta
Publication date: 1990-12
Review Baby Jemal and Bear's Secret / Mantra Lingua:
Publication date: 2008-07
Dewey code: 909
List Price: $624.00
Price: $624.00
Review Descubramos paises del mundo / Looking at Countries Complete Set (Descubramos Paises Del Mundo / Looking at Countries) / Gareth Stevens Publishing:
Authors
- Sue Palmer
- Michaela Morgan
Price: $625.65
Review Big Book Spelling: Upper Junior Easy Order Pack and Video (Big book spelling) / Ginn & Company:Developed in collaboration with the BBC, "Big Book Spelling" encourages children to learn spelling strategies. Investigative activities help children work out spelling rules. The scheme offers complete coverage of NLS spelling objectives. Each text provides material for up to 30 minutes, once a fortnight. They contain a mixture of prose, poems and picture stories to present spelling in context. Videos of the BBC programmes "Spelling with the Spellits" help to reinforce children's understanding of the different spelling rules covered in the Big Books. The teaching notes contain ideas for investigative work and spelling activities, and the scheme also offers photocopiable differentiated dictation passages and word lists, word banks and photocopy masters.
Publication date: 1987-04
Dewey code: 821.914
Review It's Brilliant! / Stride Publications:
Publication date: 1978-05-15
Review Marston, Master Spy / Mammoth:
Publication date: 2007-09-06
Price: $622.41
Review Maths Investigator: MI4 Interactive CD / Oxford University Press:Maths Investigator is a secret spy agency whose mission is to make maths fun and exciting. The series has been extensively trialled and developed to offer schools a fresh and exciting way to combine the content and structure of the 2006 Mathematics Framework with the principles of the Primary Strategy 'Excellence and Enjoyment' guidance - to raise standards whilst making learning fun. The Maths Investigator approach focuses on developing the key skills of problem solving, speaking and listening, and using and applying maths. It uses the engaging spy context to integrate maths into problem solving and give pupils a clear purpose for learning. The Interactive CD sits at the heart of the Maths Investigator resources, enabling teachers to embed ICT seamlessly into teaching and learning. Used alongside the Teacher's Guide units and Casebook, this unique resource offers a truly integrated learning experience perfect for display on interactive whiteboards. Animated messages from 'M' - the head of the Maths Investigator spy agency - excite and motivate children, whilst intuitive and powerful teaching tools (including the NNS ITPs and useful mind-mapping software) use familiar models and images to support teaching of mathematical concepts. Clear navigation provides one-touch links to all supporting resources needed to run the lessons and simple, editable planning screens enable teachers to add links to their own resources.
Publication date: 1981-06
Dewey code: 813
Price: $16.95
Review Portrait of Jennie / Harmony Raine & Co:
Publication date: 2003-03-28
List Price: $625.16
Price: $625.15
Review History Live: PC Version / Nelson Thornes Ltd:"History Live" allows your students to: watch film and news footage to study key events in history. Search the archive by curriculum topic, name, event or location. Edit video clips for use in their own presentations and reports. Analyse how events were presented to audiences at the time. Please note that a yearly renewal licence applies to "History Live" for the continuing use of the video clips. If not renewed, "History Live" will automatically expire 365 days after installation. Reminder messages will appear within the program one month prior to expiry. You will need to quote your registration number displayed on the expiry message screen to obtain your renewal code.
Publication date: 2000
Review Down by the pond (Story box) / Wright Group/McGraw-Hill:
Publication date: 2002-11
List Price: $550.00
Price: $625.19
Review Living Earth Set, 10-Volumes / Facts on File:
Creator: Gareth Stevens Editorial Staff
Publication date: 2008-08
Dewey code: 909
List Price: $620.00
Price: $620.00
Review Countries of the World (Countries of the World (20 Titles)) / Gareth Stevens Publishing:
Publication date: 2007-10-04
Price: $616.00
Review New Star Science Year 3 Kit (New Star Science) / Ginn & Company:
Creator: H. R Millar
Publication date: 1927
Review The Dreamland Express / H. Milford, Oxford University Press:
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Compton's by Britannica (26v), My Letter Library/ Titulos del Abecedario (My Letter Library/ Titulos Del Abecedario), PINOCCHIO, Looking at Countries Complete Set (Looking at Countries), World Almanac Library of the States (World Almanac Library of the States (52 Titles)), Maths Investigator: MI4 Interactive CD, Babes of the nations: New illustrations in colors and monotint, Baby Jemal and Bear's Secret, Descubramos paises del mundo / Looking at Countries Complete Set (Descubramos Paises Del Mundo / Looking at Countries), Big Book Spelling: Upper Junior Easy Order Pack and Video (Big book spelling), It's Brilliant!, Marston, Master Spy, Maths Investigator: MI4 Interactive CD, Portrait of Jennie, History Live: PC Version, Down by the pond (Story box), Living Earth Set, 10-Volumes, Countries of the World (Countries of the World (20 Titles)), New Star Science Year 3 Kit (New Star Science), The Dreamland ExpressTop headlines: Pakistan says it is for nuclear-free South Asia: Pakistan's president has assured rival India he would not be the first to use atomic weapons and he proposed the idea of a nuclear-free South Asia, Pakistani and Indian media reports said Sunday. ›10:43 World's largest cruise liner launched in Finland: Finnish shipbuilders say the world's largest cruise liner has been launched into water for the first time. ›19:16 21 Nov, Fri Woman hits jackpot in first trip to Las Vegas: A 24-year-old woman, on her first trip to Las Vegas, is worrying less about the nation's economy. 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