In 1920s America, life is hard, and many people are out of work. But you have the chance to work on a truly massive building project: a giant dam that will provide power and water for years to come, and prevent the devastating floods caused by the Colorado River. Does being a Ninja Warrior or a Pony Express Rider sound fun and exciting to you? Get ready to discover the not-so-pretty truth! In this lively series, YOU are the main character in some of history's goriest, darkest, and most horrific moments. Hilarious illustrations, captions, and sidebars leave no doubt that you simply wouldn't want to be there.

The Hoover Dam is more than just enormous concrete wall. It is an engineering marvel achieved by careful planning and hard, dangerous work. By using gravity and the force of flowing water, 17 turbines inside the Hoover Dam produce electricity for millions of people. Correlates with STEM instruction. Includes glossary, websites, and bibliography for further reading.

Defining both the Common Core Standards and the school librarian's role in their implementation, this book offers ready-to-use lesson plans and other tools for grades K–5 and identifies opportunities for collaborative teaching. As elementary schools in nearly all 50 states are faced with meeting the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), school librarians need to understand the challenges and have lesson plans ready to help. This resource introduces the CCSS in English and mathematics to K–5 librarians and aides, helping them to understand the concepts, analyzing the impact on the school library, and providing lesson plans, resources, and other tools for implementation in integrated instruction with other curricula and collaborative teaching with other elementary teachers. Based upon the authors' own experiences in adopting the CCSS in their school, the included exemplar lesson plans and ideas are designed to support school librarians as they begin to collaborate with teachers in using the Common Core Standards in their daily classroom instruction. The book also discusses the opportunities for advocacy that result from the librarian's instrumental role in implementing the CCSS, both as a staff developer and a collaborative partner teacher.

Dams change the landscape, providing reservoirs of freshwater and even producing electricity. Discover the engineering behind dams.

Read Along or Enhanced eBook: The 21st Century Junior Library Extraordinary Engineering series explains how important feats of engineering are accomplished. Dams examines the engineering concepts that make these critical structures possible. Sidebars encourage readers to engage in the material by asking deeper questions or conducting individual research. An activity, full color photos, a glossary, and a listing of additional resources all enhance the learning experience.

Is your success journey stalled even though you’re going through the motions and taking the steps that should enable you to accomplish your goals? Success on both a personal and professional level is not something that can be achieved merely through actions and habits; it requires an unshakable character. Jim Rohn’s Unshakable: Building Your Indestructible Foundation for Personal and Professional Success provides you with the principles and techniques necessary to fashion a character that attracts success. With over forty years of studying human behavior, Rohn shares wisdom that uncovers your inner resources, pressing you forward to your best self so you can reach your goals at home, in business, and in all avenues of activity. Rohn’s captivating insights will enable you to easily understand and want to implement the principles presented to excel in every endeavor. The twelve qualities that are the bedrock of an unshakable character leading to personal and professional success are thoroughly presented—and in ways that only Rohn can deliver and has delivered to people worldwide in his well-received self-development seminars. With these twelve qualities as the basis of an unshakable character, you can quickly build an infrastructure to support the pleasurable lifestyle you really want. Sculpt your life in such a way that you’ll exceed your greatest expectations of what is possible when you become Unshakable.