Extreme Science: Death Zone: Can Humans Survive at 8000 metres
By (Author) Ross Piper
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
A & C Black Publishers Ltd
11th March 2009
United Kingdom
Primary and Secondary Educational
Non Fiction
612
Hardback
32
Width 190mm, Height 210mm, Spine 8mm
218g
From surfing to the secret life of rats, Extreme Science will excite and inspire 8-11 year olds.
High-interest topics grab the reader and introduce some key science concepts in an accessible and innovative way.
The action-packed pages are designed to motivate struggling and reluctant readers, and a reading age of 7 makes the content super-accessible.
Extreme titles are ideal for supporting creative classroom teaching and for spicing up topic libraries.
Consultant: Jane Turner is thedeputy Director of one of the UK's nine Science Learning Centres. Janehas 18 years' experience in primary education as a teacher, researcherand author. She has developed award-winning curriculum projects inscience, literacy and technology and appears regularly on Teachers' TVas a primary science consultant.