If you’ve ever dragged yourself out of bed on the first Monday of daylight saving time and then tried to rouse your complaining kids, who ask questions that your sleepy brain isn’t ready to answer, here are some books that will explain to them the whys and hows of springing forward, telling time, and crossing […]
“[An] impressive history of timekeeping.”—Horn Book
Bruce Koscielniak, in this Common Core text exemplar, tells the intriguing story of the many years spent tinkering and inventing to perfect the art of telling time. When time itself was undefined, no one knew the difference between a minute, an hour, and a day. Then people started creating tools to measure time. First they used the sun, the moon, and the water, but soon after people began using their knowledge about the natural world to build clocks and to create calendars made up of months and years. Centuries later, we have clocks and calendars all around us!
This title has been selected as a Common Core Text Exemplar (Grades 4-5, Informational Texts)
“[An] impressive history of timekeeping.”—Horn Book
Bruce Koscielniak, in this Common Core text exemplar, tells the intriguing story of the many years spent tinkering and inventing to perfect the art of telling time. When time itself was undefined, no one knew the difference between a minute, an hour, and a day. Then people started creating tools to measure time. First they used the sun, the moon, and the water, but soon after people began using their knowledge about the natural world to build clocks and to create calendars made up of months and years. Centuries later, we have clocks and calendars all around us!
This title has been selected as a Common Core Text Exemplar (Grades 4-5, Informational Texts)
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About Time: A First Look at Time and Clocks
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About Time: A First Look at Time and Clocks
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780544128903 |
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Publisher: | HarperCollins |
Publication date: | 02/26/2013 |
Sold by: | HARPERCOLLINS |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 32 |
Lexile: | 1200L (what's this?) |
File size: | 9 MB |
Age Range: | 4 - 7 Years |