Even if you live in the city, there's plenty to watch, sketch, and write about. It is virtually the whole world around you. It is the vista of a great forest from a mountaintop, and a swath of weeds growing along a city sidewalk. Nature Journaling is filled with words and pictures from the diaries of the authors' students. Nature isn't somewhere else, it's all around you, and a scrapbook of ideas, maps, drawings, and clippings can help you appreciate it year round.
Students look up discoveries and scientific principles in each time period.
The Way Things Work on the New York Times bestsellers list for 50 weeks. Grouping machines together by the principles that govern their actions rather than by their uses, Macaulay helps us understand in a heavily visual, humorous, unerringly precise way what gadgets such as a toilet, a carburetor, and a fire extinguisher have in common. Click to see sample pages of this book. An illustrated survey of significant inventions closes the book, along with a glossary of technical terms, and an index. Macaulay demystifies them all.