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Makers as Innovators Junior (21st Century Skills Innovation Library)

The Makers as Innovators Junior series looks at the Makers movement for young readers and addresses topics from computer programing and 3D printing to starting your own Makerspace. Through simple text written to foster creativity and problem solving, students will the art of innovation. Large, colourful images show students how to complete activities. Additional tools, including a glossary and an index, help students learn new vocabulary and locate information.

Maker's Guide to Simple Machines, A

Learn about axles, screws, wedges and more with a silly alien engineer who guides readers through hands-on projects that demonstrate the use of simple machines.

Makerspace Cardboard Challenge! (DiscoverRoo)

From castles and armour to rockets and robots, an object’s design relates directly to its purpose. By understanding the purpose of an object, people can create plans for building the object. This fun series guides readers in planning, building, and improving their own cardboard models of castles, roller coasters, and more. Features include a table of contents, an infographic, a supply list, Think About It critical thinking questions, Making Connections questions, a glossary, and an index. QR cod

Making a Difference

Making a Difference (12SL)

The Making a Difference series tells engaging, inspiring, and sometimes touching stories of people, organizations, and communities who are helping people, animals, and the planet. Each book profiles 12 stories about how people are making a difference in a respective area: animals, children, the community, after a disaster, education, immigrants and refugees, the planet, and seniors. Some work is on a national or global scale; other work is on a grassroots, local level. Readers will learn how oth

Making and using Graphs (Math Explorer Junior)

Making and Using Graphs employs bright illustrations and clear text to teach young readers how to create and use graphs to represent and analyze data. This series described single type of graphs and offer examples, as well as activities designed for readers to practice gathering and graphing data. A conclusion summarizes key concepts and suggests more graphing activities.

Making Good Choices

Friendships are hard, and relationships change as kids grow up. How would you respond? Each of these choose-your-own ending books allows the reader to make choices that lead to different outcomes, supporting social-emotional learning.

Making Music

Making Music offers young readers a chance to experience a variety of musical instruments—before they even play a note! Labelled images assist in identification of common components as this series describes the featured instrument’s sounds and workings, including basic instruction on how to play it. A brief history of the instrument across world cultures puts it in context with others of its kind, and each title concludes with a spotlight on a famous musician who plays the instrument today.

Making Sense of Climate Change: Know Your Facts, Understand the Science, What Can We Do?

There's no Planet B. Climate change is happening, and no one is more ready to tackle this issue than kids. In recent times, discussion of climate change and its effects has begun to cause fear and anxiety in many young people. This new book-produced with assistance from the Royal Geographical Society of the UK-gives an evidence-based, informative, and calm overview of what's happened in Earth's past. This book also examines what's happening now, what could happen in the future, and what kids, ad

Making the Play

“Do you think about science when you play baseball? Probably not. But you use science anyway.” In sports, Making the Play involves more than athletic skill--it’s all possible because of physics! Linking scientific concepts such as momentum and launch angle to actions common to each sport, this new series unveils the unseen world of forces at work behind each bat, ball, or club. High-contrast design and relatable images of people at play provide a colorful backdrop to each high-interest title.