What Is Velocity?

- Includes very basic science facts for early elementary readers.
- Simple language patterns help emergent readers master the text.
- Format includes large color photographs, easy-to-read font, and simple interior design.
- Photographs are directly related to the text.
- Includes index and a word list.
Grades K-4 National Science Standards
- Science As Inquiry: I
- Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
- Form questions about objects, organisms, and events in the environment
- Conduct investigations
- Physical Science: II
- Position of motion and objects
- An object's motion can be described by tracing and measuring its position over time.

About the author

Joanne Barkan writes on politics and economics for adults; she also writes verse and fiction for young readers. She is the author of Visions of Emancipation: The Italian Workers Movement Since 1945 and over 120 works for children. She lives in Manhattan and Cape Cod.

Product details

• Authors: Joanne Barkan, JOANNE BARKAN
• Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 6 to 7
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2005
• EAN: 9780516246642
• ISBN: 978-0-516-24664-2
• No. of pages: 31
• Dimensions: 73 mm x 174 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 59 g
• Series: Rookie Read-About Science (Pap; LIBRARY PUBLISHING; LIBRARY PUBLISHING; Rookie Read-About Science (Pap; Rookie Read-About Science; Rookie Read-About Science: Phy
• Subject: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools