Product Description: From uniforms and submarines to potato cannons and regimental flags, this interactive book explores the history and inventions of the Civil War through building projects and activities. Finished products include a set of Civil War drums, secret codes, and a Civil War spy glass...read more

Product Description: What better time to introduce kids to the impact the Civil War has had on our country for the last 150 years than the sesquicentennial anniversary. From now through 2015 the four-year war will be celebrated in many ways across the country...read more

From periscopes to homemade paper, uniforms to telegraphs, Great Civil War Projects You Can Build Yourself explores the Civil War era through hands-on building projects and activities using common household and craft store items. Detailed step-by-step instructions, diagrams, and templates for creating 25 Civil War projects, combined with historical background, facts and anecdotes, and biographies and trivia, give kids a hands-on way to experience the fascinating history of one of the most important eras in American history.

25 Great ways to Learn About Winter.

Product Description: Young readers become scientists in the field when this activity book sends them off to answer the question “Why do we have winter?” with experiments and projects that mix real science with real fun. Combining hands-on learning with trivia, jokes, riddles, and terrific illustrations, chapters start with the “tools” of science—the scientific method and how to keep a science journal—and then investigate the winter constellations, long nights and long shadows, animal tracking in snow, and food-gathering behavior in birds...read more

Explores the science of spring, providing experiments and projects fo readers to do that explain what causes spring and what happens during this season, including days lengthening, birds migrating, and plants growing.

Provides step-by-step instructions for creating various projects that Leonardo da Vinci invented or envisioned in his notebooks using everyday household items.