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ScienceWiz(R) Online Discovery Mammals: The age of non-avian dinosaurs is over. We live in the age of MAMMALS! You are one of them. Explore the rise of the mammals. Crack open concretions. What's inside? Fossils! Is it a mammal? Is it a reptile? Is it a geode? Discover what such concretions have to do with recent discoveries about the rise of mammals. Learn how a young boy in Colorado helped to figured it out. What makes a mammal, a mammal? Mammals have hair, but do ALL mammals have hair? Hooves, claws and paws: Which mammal visited your front porch last night? Can you tell from the footprints? Play the footprint identification game. Make your own footprints. Mammals breathe with lungs. How do your lungs work? Build a model of your lungs and find out. Explore how mammalian teeth, bladders, hearts and brains differ from other types of animals. Some differences are quite surprising! Play Twenty Questions online with Electra to guess which mammal she is thinking about. Electra talks and recognizes both text and speech. She answers yes/no questions. She gets cheeky if you ask obnoxious questions. Can you guess which mammal she is thinking about? This product comes in a handle box for convenient storage. It includes materials for the projects. It also includes an online discovery flip-book that integrates the hands-on projects with videos, online story telling, simulations, apps and with Electra, who talks and plays games.

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Penny Norman, Ph.D. earned a doctoral degree in Biophysics from U.C. Berkeley. She became involved with the development of primary grade science materials through volunteer work, which she began as her own children started school. During this process she became deeply concerned about the limited exposure of elementary age students to the physical sciences. Her concern has translated into a 20 year effort to test and revamp science materials for the primary grades. Her work with children developed into a product line initially under the auspices of grants from the National Science Foundation and the Franklin Foundation. Her published titles reflect Dr. Norman's extensive testing and involvement with children and teachers and her love and commitment to both. Ann Einstein, M.A.T. from George Washington University in Washington D.C., was a teacher in the Berkeley Unified School District. She has been involved with the education of children for most of her adult career as a director of early childhood education programs, as a teacher in gifted and talented programs and most recently as an elementary education teacher. She has been an editor of the ScienceWiz(TM) Books since 1994 when she edited the ElectroWiz(TM) Electricity book. Ann brings a clarity of mind and the capacity to see things through a child's eyes to the editing process. To quote an Einstein of an earlier generation: We never cease to stand like curious children before the great Mystery into which we were born. - Albert Einstein

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