Monroe 2-Orleans BOCES SLS eBook

Explains the science that makes journeys to the Moon and other space travel possible.

Explains how fashion designers use math to measure, create, and produce their fashions.

Text, photographs, and diagrams offer explanations of how ships float and Archimedes' principle.

Explains how nurses use math to calculate medication dosages and judge the health and safety of their patients.

Explains how electricity is made and how it gets to your home.

Describes fifteen careers related to music and dance, including arts administrator, composer, dance instructor, music teacher, and sound engineer; and provides profiles of real workers in each field as well as guidance and activities for making a career choice.

Discusses elephants, their African habitat, food, and behavior.

Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, is frightened when he discovers that noted gangster Al Capone, a prisoner there, wants a favor in return for the help that he secretly gave Moose.