Several titles in this series are a fit for the Saskatchewan Health Curriculum. "Written in a narrative style, interspersed with conversation and first-person accounts, the books have 13 chapters each, plus a table of contents, a glossary, an index and a page listing a few web sites for further information. Although the books have an American slant - there are referrals to the President's Challenge fitness program, and the Food Pyramid - this does not affect the reader's understanding of the concepts presented. In fact, any time a measurement is given in Imperial form, its metric counterpart is written in parentheses, and on nutrition labels, the amounts are always given in metric form. "
A small collection of printed books no longer supports the type of research required by a 21st century curriculum. We wanted to create a library that reflected the reality of how students do research and fostered what they do, one that went beyond stacks and stacks of underutilized books.
"Canadian Citizenship in Action" is a series of four books intended to help students understand just what living in a democracy like ours means, and how each person can participate, as well as what barriers may be encountered."
Worth purchasing... from the reviewer "I liked this series very much. The books relate large-scale issues to ones that are within the reader's experience, and they certainly make one think. Any classroom from grade 4 to 8 could have its curriculum significantly enriched by having these books as a resource."
"I like to think of my new Giants of Science books as the "anti-Eureka" series. These are biographies of real human beings that show how scientific discovery is never a revelation arriving in a single, mind-blowing flash."