While not looking the part, Seabiscuit was one of the most remarkable thoroughbred racehorses in history. In the 1930s, when Americans longed to escape the grim realities of Depression-era life, four men turned Seabiscuit into a national hero.

Covers how to manipulate and convert numerators and denominators into simplest terms and like terms by calculating common multiples, greatest common factors and least common denominators. Explores how fractions can be renamed into equivalent forms as well as how to order and compare fractional amounts. Also learn how to perform basic operations like subtraction and division on fractions using a variety of strategies and shortcuts.

Learn the characteristics that all bugs share and compare them to their cousins, the arachnids. Field trips show the world of scientists who study bugs. Includes a hands-on experiment.

Learn about frogs and their cousins, toads, newts and salamanders. See how they live in and out of water, their life cycles, and the differences between amphibians and reptiles. Includes a hands-on experiment.

U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a planeload of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when the FBI's John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture Sheridan, it becomes clear that Sheridan is more than just another murderer.

Learn how to calculate percents, ratios and proportions. See how percents relate to 100, and discover their equivalent forms found in decimals and fractions. Explore how units and values in ratios are identified, and learn that missing proportional amounts can be found by using cross multiplication.

Observe real world scenarios demonstrating the collection, organization and display of data through the use of surveys, frequency tables and graphs. Also see how each particular graphic organizer provides and categorizes data to meet particular needs.

Learn how animals communicate, the difference between instinct and learned behavior, and the behaviors for finding food, self-protection and caring for their young. Includes a hands-on experiment.

When 19-year-old John Groberg is sent on a three-year mission to Tonga, he has no idea what he's getting into. Just getting to Tonga is fraught with danger and unbelievable obstacles. Once there, he finds himself in the midst of a culture as remote to him as the island is to his Idaho Falls home. Not understanding the language, and lonely for his fiancee Jean, John faces suspicion, distrust, typhoons, tidal waves, mosquitoes, and other perils of man...

Discover and solve formulas for perimeter and area; learn about the triangle's unique relationship between the measurement of its angles and the lengths of sides, and find out how a rectangle can be used to solve for any triangle's area. Also analyze the symmetry and transformation of regular polygons as they translate, reflect and rotate.