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Harper Collins의 Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science시리즈는 과학의 기본개념을 알기 쉽게 소개하며 어린 아이들의 과학, 기술, 자연에 관한 다양한 호기심과 궁금증을 해결해 줄 수 있는 우수한 어린이 과학도서입니다.

이 책에서는 "빛"에 관한 다양한 과학적 호기심을 충족시켜주는 흥미로운 내용들이 수록되어 있습니다.

이 책에 포함된 주요 내용들은 아래와 같습니다.

- 빛의 다양한 형태
- 빛의 속도
- 빛의 측정단위와 태양의 밝기
- 빛이 나오는 소스
- 물 속에서 스스로 빛을 내는 생물들
- 사물들아 우리 눈에 보이는 원리
- 우리 눈의 구조와 눈이 빛을 인식하는 과정
- 빛에 관한 간단한 실험들



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Edition: Paperback: 40 pages
ISBN-10: 0062381903
ISBN-13: 978-0062381903
책 크기: 25cm x 20cm






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Book Description
Light is all around you! It comes in many forms: Light from the sun brightens our day, firelight flickers in the night, electric lights fill our homes--and some animals even make the sea glow!
With lively illustrations and fun diagrams from Paul Meisel, Light Is All Around Us by Wendy Pfeffer is a fascinating look into the many ways that light brightens our world. This is a Stage 2 Let's-Read-and-Find-Out, which means the book explores more challenging concepts for children in the primary grades and supports the Common Core Learning Standards and Next Generation Science Standards.
Let's-Read-And-Find-Out is the winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru Science Books & Films Prize for Outstanding Science Series.


School Library Journal
Light is not an easy concept to convey on a beginning-to-read level, but Pfeffer does a credible job of incorporating just the right amount of detail for these readers. She relates the science concepts she's introducing to scenarios that are in the everyday experience of young children; for example, when explaining lumens, or the units used to quantify brightness, she first discusses how temperature and length are measured. Readers will also enjoy the two easy experiments appended at the end. The colorful illustrations, created with pen and ink, watercolor, liquid acrylic, pencils, and pastels and which include children of diverse races, extend the text well and are marked by several appealing details, such as costumed children carrying glow sticks at Halloween and a glowing octopus. Another book in this series, Franklyn M. Branley's Day Light, Night Light: Where Light Comes From (HarperCollins, 1998), presents the concept of reflective light even more clearly than this title, but Pfeffer's text is shorter and features much more white space on each page, making it especially attractive for beginning readers.


Booklist
A companion book to Pfeffer’s Sounds All Around (1999), this simply written volume introduces the properties of light, particularly sunlight. Meisel’s amiable ink drawings, brightened with colorful washes, help make the concepts accessible to a young audience. Topics range from the simple, such as examples of bioluminescence, to the complex, like how light waves bouncing off objects are perceived by the eye and the brain as vision (a process introduced here but not fully explained). After discussing the sun’s light as “waves of electromagnetic radiation, a kind of energy that travels through space,” the text compares the speed of light to that of cars, planes, and sound waves, while a double-page illustration makes the comparisons more real. An appended hands-on section presents two simple science experiments and an activity related to shadows. An attractive addition to the dependable Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science series.