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TIME®: Real Science of Fantasy: 3-Book Set
Be amazed with this set of nonfiction readers that explores the scientific explanations of fantastical phenomenon. Children won't be able to put down these colorful books that feature fascinating TIME content. From ethereal suspensions, daring physical feats, intriguing illusions, legendary levitations, students will examine ways magicians use science and technology to fool our senses. Students will learn more about science behind the creatures that continue to frighten and fascinate us, from angry aliens to zombies.
The set includes an action-packed nonfiction reader that explores superhero stories, including scientists that have gone bad, supervillains, mighty mutants, and real-life superhero qualities and capabilities found in nature. Supplement your reading program, build your classroom library, or enhance your intervention program with these high-interest, leveled nonfiction readers. These informational texts feature complex, rigorous content appropriate for middle school students. Titles include: The Science of Magic; The Science of Monsters; and The Science of Superpowers.
The set includes an action-packed nonfiction reader that explores superhero stories, including scientists that have gone bad, supervillains, mighty mutants, and real-life superhero qualities and capabilities found in nature. Supplement your reading program, build your classroom library, or enhance your intervention program with these high-interest, leveled nonfiction readers. These informational texts feature complex, rigorous content appropriate for middle school students. Titles include: The Science of Magic; The Science of Monsters; and The Science of Superpowers.
192 pages, Paperback
Published August 1, 2016
About the author
James D. Anderson
44 books7 followersJames D. Anderson is dean of the College of Education, the Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor of Education, and affiliate professor of History, African American Studies, and College of Law at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
His scholarship focuses broadly on the history of U.S. education, with a subfield on the history of African American education. His book, The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935, won the American Educational Research Association outstanding book award in 1990. Anderson was elected to the National Academy of Education in 2008.
In 2012, he was selected as a Fellow for Outstanding Research by the AERA and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. In 2013, he was selected a Center for Advanced Study Professor of Education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. From 2006 to 2016, Anderson served as senior editor of the History of Education Quarterly. He served as an adviser for and participant in the PBS documentaries School: The Story of American Public Education (2001), The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (2002), Forgotten Genius: The Percy Julian Story (2007) and Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities (2018). In 2016, he was awarded AERA’s Palmer O. Johnson Award for best article. In 2019, he was awarded the IMPACT award from the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center at the University of Illinois. The AERA awarded him a Presidential Citation in 2020, its highest award. Additionally, Anderson was sworn into the Board of Trustees at Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and inducted into the Stillman College Educator Hall of Fame—both in 2020
His scholarship focuses broadly on the history of U.S. education, with a subfield on the history of African American education. His book, The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935, won the American Educational Research Association outstanding book award in 1990. Anderson was elected to the National Academy of Education in 2008.
In 2012, he was selected as a Fellow for Outstanding Research by the AERA and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. In 2013, he was selected a Center for Advanced Study Professor of Education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. From 2006 to 2016, Anderson served as senior editor of the History of Education Quarterly. He served as an adviser for and participant in the PBS documentaries School: The Story of American Public Education (2001), The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (2002), Forgotten Genius: The Percy Julian Story (2007) and Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities (2018). In 2016, he was awarded AERA’s Palmer O. Johnson Award for best article. In 2019, he was awarded the IMPACT award from the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center at the University of Illinois. The AERA awarded him a Presidential Citation in 2020, its highest award. Additionally, Anderson was sworn into the Board of Trustees at Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and inducted into the Stillman College Educator Hall of Fame—both in 2020
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