Books published by Heron Books

This beautifully illustrated book teaches how the Earth moves in space to bring about days, nights and years. The student learns about gravity, the moon, stars and the sun and how the relate to each other. With the accompanying Learning Guide, student will explore gravity and the motions of the earth and moon.

This book provides the answers for all exercises in the Math Essentials units, including supplemental exercises.

Math Essentials: Finding and Filling the Gaps is a 13 part book created to help find and fill the gaps that hinder algebra studies. The program assumes a student has mastered basic addition, subtraction and multiplication, but it addresses division, if needed, as this was commonly found to be weak. It isn't designated for use with a specific age or grade, but is addressed to students preparing to study algebra, and has most often been used with teens.The program includes a variety of tools an instructor can use to tailor the program to a student's needs. Diagnostic tests identify which math skills the student hasn't already mastered. The individual learning guide for each unit allows the student to study just what is needed. A variety of exercises allow the student to practice as much as needed and to stay sharp on skills learned.Each of the skills covered in the program are provided in individual books as well as all together in one full book. Learning guides and exams are provided for each skill, and may be used with both the appropriate individual books and the full book.

This beautifully illustrated book presents information about animals of long ago at a level easily accessible to a young student. The book touches on possible explanations for the extinction of those huge animals, and discusses how other animals were able to evolve and change in order to survive. Children also learn how paleontologists use fossils to find out about prehistoric animals. Fun activities include making a dinosaur display or poster of the dinosaurs covered, and two types of imitation fossils.The accompanying learning guide directs the student through the book and activities.

"What do you tell a younger child who wants to know what air is? This fully illustrated book explains air in simple terms, and includes interesting information, such as the existence of air in soil, in water, and in one's body. Fun activities end every chapter giving students the opportunity to see for themselves how how air exists in soil and water, how air takes up space, how it has weight, etc. Students also get to make a pinwheel, a sailboat and parachute, and observe the effect air has on each.The accompanying learning guide directs the student through the book and activities."

Math Essentials: Finding and Filling the Gaps is a 13 part book created to help find and fill the gaps that hinder algebra studies. This instructor manual, along with the Math Essentials series and Exercise Answers, helps you do just that. It includes the answers for the Comprehensive Diagnostic Test and all unit diagnostics.The program assumes a student has mastered basic addition, subtraction and multiplication, but it addresses division, if needed, as this was commonly found to be weak. It isn't designated for use with a specific age or grade, but is addressed to students preparing to study algebra, and has most often been used with teens.The program includes a variety of tools an instructor can use to tailor the program to a student's needs. Diagnostic tests identify which math skills the student hasn't already mastered. The individual learning guide for each unit allows the student to study just what is needed. A variety of exercises allow the student to practice as much as needed and to stay sharp on skills learned.Each of the skills covered in the program are provided in individual books as well as all together in one full book. Learning guides and exams are provided for each skill, and may be used with both the appropriate individual books and the full book.