Step Into Science

How many of our body systems are the same as those of animals? What nutrients are important for living things to function well? In this approachable book, readers get to answer these questions! Including sections on the skeletal system, muscular system, the digestive system and more, this book supports elementary curricula and encourages readers to find out more. Diagrams aid visual learners with the main content. Activities and questions engage young scientists with themselves and the world around them.

What makes light? Kids might give a variety of answers to this question: the sun, a lightbulb, a fire. All of these light sources are explored in this colorful volume! The main content includes many concepts about light, including absorption and reflection, color, how light moves, and more. Short activities aid readers comprehension of these science topics, guiding them with step-by-step instructions. Helpful diagrams illustrate how sunlight gets to Earth, shadows, and more, making this a perfect volume for visual learners.

Within a habitat is an ecosystem of intersecting food chains and webs, vertebrates and invertebrates, unique plants, and so much more. It would take a lifetime to explore everything about just one habitat! In this book, readers are introduced to the basics: how animals are grouped and interact within habitats, how habitats change over the seasons, what habitats are found on Earth, and human habitats! Written in accessible language, the main content is accompanied by charming illustrations. Activities and questions engage readers as they discover more about the world around them.

Electricity is so much more than just plugging a lamp into the wall to make it light. Its power is found in batteries-in a flashlight and in a car-as well as in the world around us in the forms of static electricity and lightning! In this volume, readers learn the many aspects of electricity, including complementary information about conductors and insulators, circuits, and voltage. Simple, step-by-step instructions guide readers through creating a robot head, a circuit, a simple switch, and more.

There are so many concepts to discover when studying sound: frequency, pitch, the speed of sound, decibels, and more! Readers explore these topics in this colorful, illustrated volume. Activities and questions throughout engage readers with important science-curriculum topics such as echo and reflection of sound waves as well as fun, everyday information about how wind and string instruments work and comparing the volume of lawn mowers, people talking, and a jet taking off! Helpful diagrams engage visual learners with the science content.

From far away, many plants simply look pretty or appear quite still. But up close, you can see the intricate parts, and if observed for a time, you can see the many creatures living on or near it interact, the leaves turn toward to sun, and more. In this book, readers investigate flowers, pollination, seeds and fruit, and more, becoming budding botanists! Activities take readers outside to check out the world around them and questions throughout help them consider when they're learning.

Twisting, pushing, pulling, stretching-these are all ways we can physically use force and see how it affects things. Of course, there are many other forces on Earth that we can't see! Readers explore both the forces they can see in action and those they can only see the effect of in this engaging book. Activities accompany essential science information about magnets, friction, and gravity, airing readers' comprehension of what they've read. Simple diagrams support the experiments and main content.