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Physics
Recreate Discoveries About Forces
$10.95 Add to cartBuild a model hovercraft like engineer Christopher Cockerell did, or a sculpture that moves in the breeze like artist Lin Emery. This title gives readers both an understanding of the properties of light and the skills to investigate great discoveries and works. Exciting and easy- to-understand experiments encourages budding scientists, inventors, engineers, and artists to stand on the shoulders of the curious and creative people who came before them.
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Mathematics
Flashcards Division
$7.95 Add to cartSharpen skills in a flash!Ā Learning LineĀ flashcards target specific reading and math skills and concepts, and help children practice in a fun, hands-on format. Each set contains 56 sturdy, full-color cards and includes ideas for games and activities to spur interest in learning.
Plus,Ā Learning LineĀ flashcards include free access to online timed tests and interactive activities to add another dimension to flashcard practice.
To further reinforce skills, partnerĀ Learning LineĀ flashcards with the correspondingĀ Learning LineĀ activity books!
Perfect for learning on the go, enriching free-time practice at home or school, and car rides!
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Canadian Social Studies
Emily Stowe
$8.95 Add to cartEmily Stowe (1831-1903) was brought up to consider herself her brothers’ equal.Ā Her education was thorough and after graduating from teacher’s college, she was invited to Brantford, Ontario, to be the first female school principal in Canada.
Stowe, however, was determined to become a doctor.Ā While teaching school and caring for her family, she studied for the medical entrance exams.Ā Unable to study in Ontario universities, she trained in New York.Ā She was the first woman to open a practice in Canada, but it still took thirteen years to persuade the medical establishment to grant her a license.
Encouraged by the American suffrage movement, Stowe and others founded a Canadian suffrage group in 1876. They succeeded in their efforts to establish a women’s medical college in 1883, but Stowe did not live to see full suffrage granted to women.Ā Her daughter, Augusta Stowe-Gullen, the first woman to graduate in medicine from a Canadian university, continued her mother’s campaign.
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Canadian Social Studies
Emily Murphy
$8.95 Add to cartEmily Murphy was one of Canada’s great feminists.Ā A woman of tremendous wit, versatility and compassion, her career included journalism, social reform, politics and the law.
Emily Ferguson was born in Ontario and educated in Toronto where she met her husband, Minister Arthur Murphy.Ā Together they traveled through rural Ontario and industrial England.Ā These travels aroused Emily’s social conscience, which she expressed through her famous Janey Canuck books.
When the Murphy’s moved to Manitoba and later Edmonton, she continued writing and became involved in reform movements.Ā Her first political efforts resulted in the passage of Alberta’s Dower Act of 1911. She would later be appointed a judge in Alberta, making her not only Canada’s first woman magistrate, but the first female magistrate in the British Empire.
In 1921, Murphy publicly questioned the law that kept women from the Senate.Ā Women were not considered persons by law, and could therefore not become Senators.Ā Her tireless campaign in this Persons Case “led to women’s legal recognition as” persons “and their eligibility to the Senate. Murphy herself was never appointed to the Senate, but her work in all facets of law and social reform paved the way for generations of Canadian women.
