Remembering September 11 | p. 9 |
Faces & Places | p. 12 |
Faces & Places | p. 12 |
Best Beats | p. 14 |
Movie Magic | p. 16 |
TV Time | p. 18 |
Marvelous Medalists | p. 20 |
Champs | p. 22 |
Animals | p. 24 |
Animal News & Facts | p. 24 |
Ants Are Amazing | p. 25 |
Largest, Smallest, Fastest | p. 26 |
How Long Do Animals Live? | p. 27 |
Kits, Cubs, and Other Animal Babies | p. 27 |
What Are Groups of Animals Called? | p. 28 |
Habitats: Where Animals Live | p. 28 |
Animal Architects | p. 28 |
Endangered Species | p. 29 |
Danger! Poison! | p. 30 |
Pets | p. 31 |
Animal Kingdom | p. 32 |
Life on Earth | p. 33 |
The World of Dinosaurs | p. 34 |
Art | p. 36 |
Through Artists' Eyes | p. 36 |
All About Animals on Parade | p. 36 |
All About Impressionism | p. 37 |
Some Famous Works of Art | p. 37 |
Art History Highlights | p. 38 |
Birthdays | p. 39 |
Birthdays | p. 39 |
Books | p. 43 |
Platform Nine and Three Quarters | p. 43 |
Books to Enjoy | p. 44 |
Book Awards, 2001-2002 | p. 46 |
Best New Books of the Year | p. 46 |
All About Comic Books | p. 47 |
Buildings | p. 48 |
Tallest Buildings in the World | p. 48 |
Roofs That Move | p. 48 |
The Pentagon | p. 49 |
All About Castles | p. 49 |
Calendars & Time | p. 50 |
Calendars | p. 50 |
What Are Time Zones? | p. 51 |
All About Atomic Clocks | p. 51 |
Computers | p. 52 |
How Computers Work | p. 52 |
Computer Talk | p. 54 |
The Binary System | p. 55 |
Computer Games | p. 55 |
The Internet | p. 56 |
Smileys | p. 56 |
New Gadgets | p. 57 |
All About ENIAC | p. 58 |
Energy | p. 59 |
Energy Keeps Us Moving | p. 59 |
The Sun and Its Energy | p. 60 |
All About Solar Cars | p. 60 |
Who Produces and Uses the Most Energy? | p. 61 |
Where Does Our Energy Come From? | p. 61 |
Sources of Energy | p. 62 |
Environment | p. 64 |
What Is the Environment? | p. 64 |
What Is Biodiversity? | p. 65 |
Home Sweet Biome | p. 66 |
Where Garbage Goes | p. 68 |
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle | p. 69 |
What Is Made From Recycled Materials? | p. 69 |
Water, Water Everywhere | p. 70 |
Water Woes | p. 71 |
What Is Air Pollution? | p. 72 |
Global Warming | p. 72 |
Forests Forever? | p. 73 |
Games & Toys | p. 74 |
Board Games | p. 74 |
The King of Games...The Game of Kings | p. 75 |
A Time-Line of Video Games | p. 75 |
All About Trading Cards | p. 76 |
All About Robot Competitions | p. 76 |
Top Selling Toys of 2001 | p. 77 |
Classic American Toys...Yesterday and Today | p. 77 |
Geography | p. 78 |
Looking at Our World | p. 78 |
Reading a Map | p. 79 |
The Seven Continents | p. 80 |
Tallest, Longest, Highest, Deepest | p. 81 |
Amazing Geography Facts | p. 81 |
The Four Oceans | p. 81 |
Some European and American Explorers | p. 82 |
Volcanoes | p. 83 |
Earthquakes | p. 84 |
Major Earthquakes | p. 85 |
Health | p. 86 |
Inside Your Body | p. 86 |
What the Body's Systems Do | p. 87 |
Surprising Facts About the Body | p. 88 |
Stay Healthy With Exercise | p. 88 |
A Few Facts About Lefties | p. 89 |
Old Wives' Tales | p. 89 |
We Are What We Eat | p. 90 |
A Little Fat Goes a Long Way | p. 90 |
Which Foods Are the Right Foods? | p. 91 |
Cool Ways to Say "No" | p. 92 |
Understanding AIDS | p. 92 |
Super Snacks | p. 93 |
Holidays | p. 94 |
Holidays in the United States | p. 94 |
Unusual Holidays | p. 95 |
Holidays Around the World | p. 95 |
Inventions | p. 96 |
Inventions Change Our Lives | p. 96 |
All About the Sign Language Glove | p. 98 |
Great Ideas--By Accident | p. 99 |
A Batty Idea? | p. 99 |
Language | p. 100 |
Abbreviations and Acronyms | p. 100 |
New Words | p. 100 |
Palindromes; All About Eponyms | p. 101 |
In Other Words: Idioms | p. 102 |
Jokes and Riddles | p. 103 |
Top Ten Languages; Languages in the U.S. | p. 104 |
Language Express | p. 105 |
Anagrams | p. 106 |
Military | p. 107 |
Serious Business | p. 107 |
Out of the Ordinary | p. 108 |
In the Air | p. 109 |
All About the Army's Green Berets | p. 110 |
Money | p. 111 |
History of Money | p. 111 |
Making Money: The U.S. Mint | p. 112 |
How Much Money Is in Circulation? | p. 113 |
What Are Exchange Rates? | p. 113 |
All About the Euro | p. 113 |
Why Budgets Are Helpful | p. 114 |
What Do You Want to Be? | p. 115 |
Movies & TV | p. 116 |
20 Movie Hits of 2001 and 2002 | p. 116 |
20 Popular Kids Videos of 2001 | p. 116 |
Some Popular Movies | p. 117 |
Lord of the Rings | p. 117 |
All About SpongeBob | p. 118 |
Popular TV Shows in 2001-2002 | p. 118 |
Popular Video Games in 2001 | p. 118 |
People to Watch: Anne Hathaway, Hayden Christensen | p. 119 |
Museums | p. 120 |
Kids' Museums | p. 120 |
Living History Exhibits | p. 121 |
Ethnic Museums | p. 121 |
Odd Museums | p. 122 |
National Air and Space Museum | p. 122 |
Music & Dance | p. 123 |
Musical Instruments | p. 123 |
Music and Music Makers | p. 124 |
Top Albums of 2001 | p. 124 |
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | p. 125 |
American Musicals | p. 126 |
All About Hip-Hop | p. 126 |
Dance | p. 127 |
Nations | p. 128 |
Kids Around the World | p. 128 |
Maps and Flags of the Nations | p. 130 |
Facts About Nations | p. 146 |
Numbers | p. 166 |
Numerals in Ancient Civilization | p. 166 |
Roman Numerals | p. 166 |
The Prefix Tells the Number | p. 167 |
Big Numbers | p. 167 |
How Many Sides and Faces Do They Have? | p. 168 |
How Do You Find the Area? | p. 169 |
All About 3.14 ([pi]) | p. 169 |
Multiplication Table | p. 170 |
Population | p. 172 |
Where Do People Live? | p. 172 |
Population of the United States 2001 | p. 173 |
Taking the Census: Everyone Counts | p. 174 |
Counting the First Americans | p. 175 |
The Many Faces of America: Immigration | p. 176 |
Becoming an American Citizen | p. 177 |
Prizes & Contests | p. 178 |
Nobel Prizes | p. 178 |
The Medal of Honor | p. 179 |
Pulitzer Prize; Spingarn Medal | p. 179 |
Entertainment Awards | p. 180 |
Contests | p. 181 |
Religion | p. 183 |
World Religions | p. 183 |
Major Holy Days | p. 185 |
Religious Membership in the United States | p. 186 |
Science | p. 187 |
What Everything Is Made of | p. 187 |
How Elements Are Named | p. 188 |
All About Compounds | p. 188 |
Minerals, Rocks, and Gems | p. 189 |
What Is DNA?; All About Cloning | p. 190 |
Some Famous Scientists | p. 191 |
Science Museums | p. 192 |
Solar-Powered Rainmaker | p. 193 |
Science Q & A | p. 194 |
Signs & Symbols | p. 196 |
Road Signs; Some Useful Symbols | p. 196 |
The Zodiac | p. 197 |
All About Native American Code Talkers | p. 197 |
Braille and Sign Language | p. 198 |
Space | p. 200 |
The Solar System | p. 200 |
The Planets | p. 201 |
The Moon | p. 202 |
Exploring Space | p. 203 |
Not Just Planets | p. 204 |
Eclipses | p. 204 |
Constellations | p. 205 |
Big Questions | p. 206 |
First Astronauts in Space | p. 207 |
Shuttles and Space Stations | p. 208 |
International Space Station | p. 209 |
All About Space Camp | p. 209 |
Sports | p. 210 |
Baseball | p. 210 |
Basketball | p. 212 |
Professional Basketball | p. 212 |
College Basketball | p. 214 |
Football | p. 215 |
Professional Football | p. 215 |
College Football | p. 217 |
Golf | p. 218 |
Gymnastics | p. 218 |
Ice Hockey | p. 219 |
The Olympic Games | p. 220 |
Skating | p. 222 |
Soccer | p. 223 |
Special Olympics | p. 224 |
Swimming | p. 224 |
Tennis | p. 225 |
X Games | p. 226 |
Transportation | p. 227 |
How Long Did It Take? | p. 227 |
Trains; Autos | p. 228 |
Air; Sea | p. 229 |
A Short History of Transportation | p. 230 |
All About the Transcontinental Railroad | p. 230 |
Travel | p. 232 |
Historic Homes | p. 232 |
World Cities | p. 233 |
Amusement Parks | p. 234 |
Roller Coasters | p. 235 |
United Nations | p. 236 |
A Community of Nations | p. 236 |
UN Peacekeepers | p. 237 |
How the UN Is Organized | p. 237 |
United States | p. 238 |
United States: Facts, Figures, and Symbols | p. 238 |
The U.S. Constitution | p. 240 |
The Executive Branch: The President and the Cabinet | p. 242 |
Elections: Electing the President and Vice President | p. 243 |
Presidents and Vice Presidents of the United States | p. 244 |
Presidents and First Ladies | p. 251 |
The Legislative Branch: Congress | p. 252 |
The House of Representatives, by State | p. 253 |
What Impeachment Means | p. 253 |
The Judicial Branch: The Supreme Court | p. 254 |
United States History Time Line | p. 257 |
African Americans Work for Change | p. 264 |
They Made History | p. 265 |
Map of the United States | p. 266 |
Facts About the States | p. 268 |
Washington, D.C.: The Capital of the United States | p. 285 |
How the States Got Their Names | p. 286 |
National Parks | p. 288 |
Weather | p. 290 |
Weather Words | p. 290 |
Clouds | p. 290 |
Hurricanes | p. 291 |
All About Lightning | p. 291 |
Taking Temperatures | p. 292 |
The Hottest and Coldest Places in the World | p. 292 |
Weights & Measures | p. 294 |
The Earliest Measurements | p. 294 |
Measurements We Use Today | p. 294 |
The Metric System | p. 296 |
How to Convert Measurements | p. 297 |
World History | p. 298 |
The Middle East | p. 298 |
All About Mummies of Egypt | p. 299 |
Gods and Goddesses | p. 299 |
Africa | p. 301 |
Asia | p. 303 |
Europe | p. 306 |
The Americas | p. 310 |
Anniversaries in 2003, in 2004 | p. 312 |
Puzzle Answers | p. 314 |
Index | p. 318 |
Classroom Contest: Worms | p. 332 |
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