Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

What is a pandemic? What diseases are likely to cause a pandemic? How can the spread of a disease be stopped? Find out about how a disease reaches pandemic proportions and start thinking about what people can do to stop the spread of deadly diseases.

Straightforward advice on how to be a responsible shopper.

This book provides a peek into the career of a cheese maker. It covers the history behind the career, the process of making cheese, and what experience is needed to become a master of the craft. Aligned with curriculum standards, this book also highlights key 21st Century content including global awareness, business literacy, and learning and innovation skills. Hands-on activities encourage creative and design thinking. Book includes a table of contents,...

An introduction to starting your own business, from finding investors to marketing your product. Includes math problems.

Our Solar System covers the Webb Telescope's images of our sun and planets and what we're learning about our own solar system as a result. Features new discoveries being made with the Webb Telescope and the cutting-edge technology helping scientists make them.

For young people, leading a healthy lifestyle requires education and empowerment. In Understanding Suicide, readers will explore the history and social aspects of suicide, teen suicide, and ways to help themselves and others. Sidebars challenge and expand readers' thinking while relating topics to 21st Century skills and themes--from creativity and innovation to financial literacy. Book also includes a table of contents, author biography, glossary,...

Focuses on innovations made in the sport of skateboarding.

"Explores how the James Webb Space Telescope has allowed scientists to study stars and the dense clouds of space dust where they are born"--

Scientific advances have led to new discoveries and new understandings of how our universe works. But there is still a lot that reamains undiscovered. Space is full of mysteries. The James Webb Space telescope is doing its part to solve at least some of them. Never-before-seen sights, like baby stars, systems of space dust, and planets that could possibly support life are only a few of the secrets being revealed by this amazing piece of technology....

This book introduces how the wind, the sun, and the tides have been harnessed to produce power.