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1) Dams
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"Carefully leveled text and engaging full-color photos introduce early fluent readers to the world's most amazing dams while explaining the engineering behind their creation. Includes activity, glossary, and index."--
3) Dams
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"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"--
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Explores the engineering challenges behind building dams, as well as the creative solutions found to overcome those challenges. Accessible text, vibrant photos, and an engineering activity for readers provide a well-rounded introduction to the engineering process.
7) Dams
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"Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to dams. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
8) Dams
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From beaver dams to the Hoover Dam, this book explores how they are built, how they are used, and the engineer's job to build and care for them.
9) Dams
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"Did you know that dams are made with millions of tons of concrete? Or that building dams often involves changing the course of large rivers? Dams are built to hold back massive amounts of water - but did you know they can also have tunnels, bridges, and more? These huge engineering projects are not easy! They take many years of planning and construction. Discover extreme facts about dams in this fun and kooky book"--
10) Dams and levees
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"Discover the many ways in which dams and levees are marvels of modern engineering through accessible text and informative photos. Each chapter focuses on an important aspect of these structures, including the history of their invention, examples of noteworthy dams and levees, related career paths, and stories of the tragedies that have occurred when dams and levees failed. This book's contents directly correlate with Next Generation Science Standards,...
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"Kids will learn about different types of dams with Engineer It! Dam Projects. They will discover how dams are built. Then, build their own beaver dam, waterwheel, and more. Each project has color photos and easy-to-follow instructions. Young crafters will be budding engineers in no time!Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Applied to STEM Concepts of Learning Principles."--Publisher's website.
12) A dam holds back
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"Created to support NGSS, the Be An Engineer! series explains how different structures are designed by engineers to solve problems. Each title takes readers through the steps of the engineering design process to explain how an everyday structure is designed to overcome physical obstacles to meet peoples' needs. Real-world examples, vibrant photographs, and fact boxes reinforce learning, and readers design and create their own model structures. A link...
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"Canals and Dams! With 25 Science Projects for Kids invites kids ages 7 though 10 to investigate the waterways that help the world run! Through fun facts and engaging content, readers explore record-breaking structures such as the Panama Canal and Hoover Dam. They also learn about the physics that make canals and dams work! Elementary-aged kids discover how hundreds of years of innovation created the canals and dams we know today and how this technology...
17) Dams
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Describes the construction and use of dams and discusses their benefits and dangers.
18) Dams
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Explores key types of dams throughout the world, discussing materials and construction technologies used, functions and locations of major dams, and examples of famous dams in history.
20) Represas
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Describes the construction, purpose, and parts of dams throughout the world.
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