Trenes de Alta Velocidad (Bullet Trains)

Students will gain a deeper understanding of the Cold War by delving into major social studies topics in this project-based examination. The volume presents a series of broad questions touching on major themes in the social studies curriculum. Each question is accompanied by several paragraphs examining that question in the context of the Cold War, as well as a detailed project that prompts readers to think critically and present their findings or opinions in a particular format, such as a poster with side-by-side comparisons, a persuasive essay, or a class presentation.

Simple text and photographs provide opportunities to practice counting and share in the excitement of watching a parade.

Growing up Latino in America means speaking two languages, living two lives, learning the rules of two cultures. Cool Salsa celebrates the tones, rhythms, sounds, and experiences of that double life. Here are poems about families and parties, insults and sad memories, hot dogs and mangos, the sweet syllables of Spanish and the snag-toothed traps of English. Here is the glory, and pain, of being Latino American. Latino Americans hail from Cuba and California, Mexico and Michigan, Nicaragua and New York, and editor Lori M. Carlson has made sure to capture all of those accents. With poets such...

Los criterios informadores que han atendido los autores de esta obra son: servir de soporte didactico y pedagogico basico, enfocar las unidades didacticas desde una perspectiva teorico-practica de aprendizaje del tecnico y complementar los contenidos conceptuales de cada una de las unidades didacticas con actividades teorico-practicas que faciliten el aprendizaje de las mismas.