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This unique collection explores and celebrates history's most popular, successful, and lauded soccer clubs. Each book covers the history of soccer and the specific club's origins, founding members, struggles, important milestones, and achievements. Readers are introduced to notable players both past and present, and current affairs in their domestic and international competitions.
The Social Emotional Library series presents real life, historical and modern stories that celebrate important qualities and ideas like courage, diversity, friendship, and forgiveness. Books include thought-provoking issues and questions, as well as hands-on activities, that encourage the development of critical life skills, empathy, and social emotional growth.
The fight for social justice has gained extraordinary momentum with each passing year, and its reach extends to countless areas of our lives, including art, media, politics, and more. Activists are asking integral questions, and while there are no easy answers, this comprehensive set prepares readers with the fundamental knowledge they need to tackle these societal issues.
It's nearly impossible for most of us to imagine what our lives would be like without social media. However today's teens unarguably eclipse their elders in their reliance on and their intuitive use of a whole range of social media platforms. Savvy though they may be, teens are still plagued by the same specters that haunt all social media users, such as trolls and bullies, privacy issues, and fake news. Provide your readers with the knowledge, tools, and critical perspective they need to navigate the tricky world of social media and educate others about how to do so in an informed, intelligent way.
Social media offers the promise of bringing people together and enabling them to share ideas and information. However, social media also has a dark side, with malicious users peddling misinformation, harassing others, and running scams to defraud unwary victims. This book examines both good aspects and bad, and explores how social media platforms could be made safer and more reliable as sources of information.
New polls show that a majority of kids hope to become social media stars one day. But only a handful will benefit from the billions of dollars advertisers dole out to social media influencers annually. Social Media’s Star Power illustrates the positive and negative aspects of this trend, with anecdotes and quotes from winners, losers, and industry insiders.
The Social Studies Essential Skills series provides insight into key social studies concepts that students must know to develop a greater understanding of content. Using easy-to-read text, colorful images, and illustrations, as well as hands-on activities, students will gain knowledge of map, chart, and graph reading, develop critical thinking skills, learn to examine primary source documents, and understand citizenship. Social Studies Essential Skills is a series of AV2 media enhanced books. A unique book code printed on page 2 unlocks multimedia content. These books come alive with video, audio, weblinks, slideshows, activities, hands-on experiments, and much more.
Russia is the world's largest country by area; it is home to diverse environments and landforms, from deserts and semiarid steppes to deep forests and the Arctic tundra. Its population is diverse, filled with countless languages and religious and cultural traditions. Its history is rich with stories of the Rus and of the tsars. This series takes a comprehensive look at one of history's most influential powers, whose controversial actions have brought it back to the forefront of global politics. Students will grasp the full extent of Russia's cultural contributions, geopolitical importance, and historical impact.
Why not use soda bottles, which were scattered all around, to form the cores of the walls? Never underestimate the power of an idea! Laura Kutner, the real-life ""Seûo Laura"" in The Soda Bottle School, wrote this book because she wanted to ""inspire young readers to believe in themselves and work together to make the world a better place, and have fun at the same time."" Sometimes thinking outside the box--or inside the bottle--leads to the perfect solution.