The First Of Everything
Sam Jam sat in a school library and challenged the school community to ask him about the origin of anything at all — and pledged to use library resources to answer within 60 minutes. Children and adults delivered clever, funny, unexpected questions: Who owned the first pet dog? Who invented toilets? What was the first song? Were the first newspapers really made of rock? And who was the first human, anyway? Seeking answers, he and his young assistants discovered remarkable true tales:And dozens more remarkable true stories.The result is a fun story collection about the origins of a huge range of things — which also introduces young readers to the art and science of academic research. In these times of fake news, information overload, and too much homework, the ability to conduct fast, accurate research is one of the best skills any student can have — and you can learn it in these pages.
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The First Of Everything
Sam Jam sat in a school library and challenged the school community to ask him about the origin of anything at all — and pledged to use library resources to answer within 60 minutes. Children and adults delivered clever, funny, unexpected questions: Who owned the first pet dog? Who invented toilets? What was the first song? Were the first newspapers really made of rock? And who was the first human, anyway? Seeking answers, he and his young assistants discovered remarkable true tales:And dozens more remarkable true stories.The result is a fun story collection about the origins of a huge range of things — which also introduces young readers to the art and science of academic research. In these times of fake news, information overload, and too much homework, the ability to conduct fast, accurate research is one of the best skills any student can have — and you can learn it in these pages.
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The First Of Everything

The First Of Everything

The First Of Everything

The First Of Everything

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Overview

Sam Jam sat in a school library and challenged the school community to ask him about the origin of anything at all — and pledged to use library resources to answer within 60 minutes. Children and adults delivered clever, funny, unexpected questions: Who owned the first pet dog? Who invented toilets? What was the first song? Were the first newspapers really made of rock? And who was the first human, anyway? Seeking answers, he and his young assistants discovered remarkable true tales:And dozens more remarkable true stories.The result is a fun story collection about the origins of a huge range of things — which also introduces young readers to the art and science of academic research. In these times of fake news, information overload, and too much homework, the ability to conduct fast, accurate research is one of the best skills any student can have — and you can learn it in these pages.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789813274778
Publisher: Ws Education (Children's)
Publication date: 02/25/2021
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)
Lexile: 970L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Library Lunch Challenge 1

Story 1 The First Couch Potato 5

Chapter 1 Six Tales of Prehistoric People 9

From about 50,000 years ago to 13,000 years age

Story 2 The First Humans 10

Story 3 The First Clothing 14

Story 4 The Earliest Known Artists 19

Story 5 The First Pet Dog 22

Story 6 The First Dancer 26

Story 7 The First Rice Cook 30

Chapter 2 Eight Tales from the Dawn of History 35

From about 12,000 years ago to 3,000 years ago

Story 8 The First City 36

Story 9 The First Winemaker 41

Story 10 The First Doctor 45

Story 11 The First Known Weights 48

Story 12 The Inventor of Toilets 52

Story 13 The First Songwriters 56

Story 14 The First Lawmaker 61

Story 15 The First Zookeeper 64

Chapter 3 Seven Stories from a seriously long time Ago 69

From about 800 BC to 300 BC

Story 16 The First Instant Message 70

Story 17 The First Spies 75

Story 18 The Earliest Contracts 78

Story 19 The First Feminists 82

Story 20 An Early Investor 86

Story 21 The World is a Ball 88

Story 22 The Inventor of the Keyboard 93

Chapter 4 Seven Stories from the Mediterranean's Golden Age 97

From about 400 BC to 1 BC, and yes, it overlaps with the previous chapter

Story 23 The Position of the Earth 98

Story 24 The Distance to the Moon 102

Story 25 The Measurer of the World 107

Story 26 The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Computer 110

Story 27 The First Newspaper 114

Story 28 The First Mirror 119

Story 29 The Invention of the Vending Machine 122

Chapter 5 Seven Tales from the New Calendar 127

From about AD 1 to AD 1300

Story 30 The First Toilet Paper 128

Story 31 The Accidental Nanotechnologist 133

Story 32 The First Person to Change Gender 137

Story 33 The First Man to Fly 141

Story 34 The First Airmail Parcel Delivery 145

Story 35 The Inventor of Moveable Type Printing 148

Story 36 The First Forensic Detective 153

Chapter 6 Seven Stories from a Modernizing World 157

From about AD 800 to the 1830s

Story 37 The Discoverer of Coffee 159

Story 38 The First Pencil Factory 163

Story 39 The Origin of Shampoo 166

Story 40 The First Missile Maker 171

Story 41 The Developer of Semaphore 175

Story 42 The First Big Suspension Bridge 178

Story 43 The First People Photographed 182

Chapter 7 Seven Tales from Practically Yesterday 187

From about the 1850s to the 1930s

Story 44 The First Maritime Flare Gun 189

Story 45 The First Recorded Song 193

Story 46 The First Synthesizer 197

Story 47 An Early Mobile Phone System 200

Story 48 The Invention of the Chocolate Chip Cookie 205

Story 49 A Tale of Carrots and Radar 208

Story 50 The First Computers Worth Listening To 213

Chapter 8 The Art and Science or Research 217

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