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  • How Does Your Body Work?
    Rebecca Woodbury PhD MEd
    Learn about some of the major organs of the body, their functions, and how they are arranged into systems.The skeletal system is made up of the bones that support the body and are attached to the muscles that make up the muscular system. The skeletal and muscular systems work together to make it possible for your body to move.The brain is the body’s control center and sends mes...
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  • Nutrition
    Rebecca Woodbury PhD MEd
    Nutrition science is the study of how foods affect the body and which foods are needed to keep us healthy. Different types of food are required by the body, including carbohydrates, fruits and vegetables, proteins, and fats. Carbohydrates provide fuel for the body. Fruits and vegetables give the body the vitamins and minerals needed to help bones grow and keep the body healthy....
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  • Muscles
    Rebecca Woodbury PhD MEd
    Muscles are used to move the body by contracting to become shorter and stretching to become longer. There are three types of muscles:Skeletal muscles, also called striated muscles, are attached to bones so we can move, walk, and jump. Skeletal muscles are organized in bundles and look striped under a microscope. Smooth muscles are found in the digestive system and blood vessels...
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  • The Nervous System
    Rebecca Woodbury PhD MEd
    The nervous system allows you to feel, think, move, breathe, have emotions, and remember things. The brain is the control center of the nervous system and sits on top of a long cord called the spinal cord. The spinal cord runs through the middle of the backbone, or spine, which protects the spinal cord. Nerves are cord-like structures that come out of the spinal cord and carry ...
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  • How Your Body Runs Faster
    Rebecca Woodbury PhD MEd
    In the leveled reader How Your Body Runs Faster, fundamental concepts in Exercise Science are explained through easily understood text and colorful, fun illustrations and photographs. Strong muscles help you run faster, and exercising will make your muscles stronger. Eating healthy food gives your body the fuel needed to run, jump, and play, and warming up before running gets y...
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  • What Happens When We Age?
    Rebecca Woodbury PhD MEd
    All living things age, and aging begins inside the cells. [Cells, atoms, and molecules are described.] As we grow, old cells are replaced as the body by makes new molecules used by cells to divide and make new cells. As we age, cells start to divide more slowly and cannot make new cells as quickly. After many years, some cells stop dividing, making it harder to fix small damage...
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  • How to Win a Race
    Rebecca Woodbury PhD MEd
    Physical training makes the body stronger and faster, beginning with the cells. [Cells, atoms, and molecules are described.] The three main types of cells are smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, and skeletal muscle cells. Training makes the muscle cells stronger, bigger, and able to make the body move more quickly, while helping the heart cells become better at pumping blood to the ...
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  • How Your Body Gets Strong
    Rebecca Woodbury PhD MEd
    In the leveled reader How Your Body Gets Strong, fundamental concepts in exercise science are explained through easily understood text and colorful, fun illustrations and photographs. Young readers discover that the body is like a powerful machine, with muscles being used to move the body and lungs bringing in needed oxygen. Exercise makes muscles bigger and stronger. Food prov...
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  • Temperature
    Rebecca Woodbury PhD MEd
    Temperature is a measure of how fast atoms and molecules in an object or substance are moving. [Atoms and molecules are defined.] When atoms and molecules are wiggling fast (moving or vibrating), something will feel hot, and when they are moving slowly, something will feel cold. A thermometer is a tool used to measure the temperature of something. Heating makes atoms wiggle fas...
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  • French Fries and Fizzy Pop!
    Rebecca Woodbury Ph.D. / Rebecca Woodbury Ph.D. M.Ed.
    In the French Fries and Fizzy Pop! leveled reader, fundamental science facts in chemistry are explained through simply written text and colorful, fun illustrations and photographs. Children discover that atoms are like little building blocks that make up everything we touch, taste, smell, and see. Atoms link together to make molecules. Molecules cause different foods to have di...
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  • Atoms
    Rebecca Woodbury Ph.D.
    In the Atoms reader, fundamental science facts are explained through simply written text and colorful, fun illustrations.  Children will discover that atoms are like building blocks that make up everything we touch, taste, smell, or see. Each different type of atom has a particular name and a specific number of electrons. Atoms link together using their electrons. A pronunciati...
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  • Animals
    Rebecca Woodbury Ph.D. / Rebecca Woodbury Ph.D. M.Ed.
    In the leveled reader Animals, fundamental science concepts in biology are explained through simply written text and colorful illustrations and photographs. Young readers discover that there are many different kinds of animals that look different from each other. Animals have different characteristics such as fur, scales, or wings, and have different numbers of legs. Animals li...
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  • Mammals
    Rebecca Woodbury Ph.D. / Rebecca Woodbury Ph.D. M.Ed.
    A mammal is an animal that breathes air, feeds milk to its babies, and has fur for at least part of its life. Most mammals give birth to live babies. Only a few lay eggs. Some mammals, like cows and goats, are herbivores and eat only grass and other plants. Others, like cats, are carnivores and eat only meat. Some mammals, like whales, live only in the ocean, and others, like s...
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  • Whales
    Rebecca Woodbury Ph.D. / Rebecca Woodbury Ph.D. M.Ed.
    Whales are animals that live only in water. Most whales live in oceans, but a few live in rivers. Whales are mammals: animals that breathe air, feed milk to their babies, and have fur for at least part of their life. Most mammals, including whales, give birth to live babies. Whales are in a group of mammals called cetaceans. Cetaceans spend all their time in water,  take in air...
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  • Duck-billed Platypus
    M.Ed. Rebecca Woodbury Ph.D.
    A duck-billed platypus is an animal found only in Australia. It has a bill like a duck, lays eggs like a duck, and has webbed feet, but it has a flat tail and fur like a beaver. This unusual animal belongs to a group of mammals called monotremes. A mammal is an animal that breathes air, feeds milk to its babies, and has fur for at least part of its life. Most mammals give birth...
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  • Reptiles
    Rebecca Woodbury Ph.D. / Rebecca Woodbury Ph.D. M.Ed.
    Reptiles are a group of animals that includes turtles, snakes, crocodiles, alligators, and lizards. These animals share some things in common. They have skin that is covered in scales; they keep their body at the right temperature by lying in the sun to stay warm or in the shade to cool off. Most reptiles lay eggs that have soft leathery shells, while others give birth to live ...
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  • Birds
    Rebecca Woodbury Ph.D.
    Birds are found all over the world. Some, like penguins, live in cold places while others, like toucans, live in tropical climates. All birds have wings, which most use for flying. Some birds don’t fly but use their wings as flippers for swimming or have strong legs for running. All birds have feathers, lay eggs, and have hollow bones to make them lighter so they can fly. Most ...
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  • Sharks
    Rebecca Woodbury Ph.D. / Rebecca Woodbury Ph.D. M.Ed.
    Sharks are a type of fish, animals that swim in water. There are many different types of sharks, from very small to huge. Most sharks live in salty ocean water but some live in fresh water in rivers. A shark has a skeleton made of cartilage, which is lighter than bone and makes the shark able to float. The ability of cartilage to bend makes it easier for a shark to swing its ta...
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  • Worms
    Rebecca Woodbury Ph.D. / Rebecca Woodbury Ph.D. M.Ed.
    Worms are animals that have long bodies and no legs. They live on land, in the ocean, and sometimes in other animals. There are three groups of worms: segmented worms, roundworms, and flatworms. A roundworm is shaped like a long round tube, while flatworms have flat bodies and are sometimes brightly colored with different patterns. Segmented worms look like they are made of man...
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  • Fish
    Rebecca Woodbury Ph.D. / Rebecca Woodbury Ph.D. M.Ed.
    Fish are animals that swim in water and are found in lakes, rivers, streams, and oceans. There are three types of fish: bony fish, cartilage fish, and fish without jaws. Bony fish, such as bass, are the most common and are named for their skeletons which are made of bones. Bony fish have a swim bladder that allows them to adjust their depth in the water by putting more air in t...
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  • Frogs and Toads
    Rebecca Woodbury Ph.D. / Rebecca Woodbury Ph.D. M.Ed.
    Frogs are animals that live on land and in water. Frogs begin their life in water, and as adults some live both on land and in water, while others live only on land. Toads also begin life in water but live only on land as adults. Frogs and toads belong to a group of animals that scientists call Anura, which are part of a larger group called amphibians. The word amphibian means ...
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  • Snails
    Rebecca Woodbury Ph.D. / Rebecca Woodbury Ph.D. M.Ed.
    Snails are a type of mollusk. Mollusks are in the scientific group Mollusca and are soft-bodied animals that live in oceans and lakes and on land. The three types of mollusks are gastropods (snails and slugs), bivalves (clams and oysters), and cephalopods (octopuses and squids). All mollusks have organs and a mantle that covers the organs, one or more feet or arms, and a shell ...
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  • Sea Stars
    Rebecca Woodbury Ph.D. / Rebecca Woodbury Ph.D. M.Ed.
    Although sea stars are also called starfish, they are not actually fish but are in a group of animals called echinoderms. The word echinoderm means spiny skin. Sea stars are found only in the salty waters of oceans. Most have five arms, giving them a star-like shape, but some can have up to 24 arms. Sea stars have a flat body with the mouth and little tube feet on the underside...
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  • Galaxies
    Ph.D. Rebecca Woodbury / Rebecca Woodbury Ph.D. M.Ed.
    A galaxy is a huge group of stars, planets, gas, dust, comets, asteroids, and other objects in space. Our Sun and Earth are part of the Milky Way Galaxy, which is so huge that we cannot travel outside it to see what it looks like. But by studying other galaxies and how stars are arranged in the Milky Way, astronomers can develop an idea of what it looks like. To do this, astron...
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  • Black Holes
    Rebecca Woodbury Ph.D.
    A black hole is an object in space that cannot be seen because it sucks in everything near it, including light. It looks like a totally black area in space because no light escapes from it or bounces off it. Astronomers learn about black holes by observing the materials swirling around them and what happens to these materials. A black hole has a huge amount of gravity that pull...
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  • Bats
    Rebecca Woodbury Ph.D. / Rebecca Woodbury Ph.D. M.Ed.
    Bats are a type of mammal and the only mammal that flies. Mammals are animals that breathe air, feed milk to their babies, and have fur for at least part of their life. Most give birth to live babies. During the day, bats sleep upside down in protected places. At night some bats fly around catching bugs to eat. Other bats eat fruit, plant parts, and nectar from flowers. Baby ba...
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  • Mollusks
    Rebecca Woodbury Ph.D.
    Snails, clams, squids, and octopuses are all mollusks, which are soft-bodied animals that live in oceans and lakes and on land. All mollusks are in a group called Mollusca. Different types of mollusks look very different from one another. The three different types of mollusks are: gastropods (snails and slugs), bivalves (clams and oysters), and cephalopods (octopuses and squids...
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  • Octopuses
    Rebecca Woodbury Ph.D.
    The octopus is a type of mollusk found in the oceans. The characteristics of the group Mollusca are reviewed. The basic body plan of the octopus is illustrated. An octopus has three hearts, blue blood, and a tiny piece of shell inside its body. It has eight arms, a main brain, and also a mini-brain in each arm. Most octopuses live on the ocean floor and move by walking with the...
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  • The Sun
    Rebecca Woodbury Ph.D.
    The Sun is a star, an object in space that makes its own light and heat energy. Energy gives something the ability to do work. Light energy does the work of making things visible, and heat energy does the work of making things warm. The Sun is so huge that a million Earths would fit inside, and instead of being made of rocks and soil like Earth, the Sun is made of helium gas an...
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  • Our Solar System
    Rebecca Woodbury Ph.D.
    Earth is part of a solar system, which is made of a star and the group of planets and other objects that orbit a star. The Sun is a star and is the center of our solar system. A star is an object in space that make its own light and heat energy. Our solar system contains eight planets, an asteroid belt, and moons around the planets. The inner solar system consists of the first ...
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