Contents

Opinions and Positions in News Articles and Popular Science Texts 10 You, Me, Us... Portraits as Reflections of Other Worlds 20 The Conquest of Mexico-Tenochtitlan 30 Something From Another World 38 Matilde, Our First Female Doctor 42 Automatons: The Ancestors of Robots 46 A Poet With the Wings of a Painter 50 I Design Measuring Instruments to Quantify Physical Magnitudes 62 Large and Small Quantities 74 I Predict the Phenomena 84 Ethical Principles in the Use of Natural Resources 90 Democratic Decision Making and Assertive Attitudes 96 Floating Gardens .104 Use of Tools, Machines, and Instruments in the Healthcare Field .110 Big Underground Crystals .120 Preserving Languages and Cultures .128 Learning About Personal and Contextual Needs to Build a Community Life Project .138 Is This or the Other?.146 The Mexican Revolution and Its People .152 The Arts: A Path to the Expression of Our Environment .160 Bibliography .168 Illustration and Photo Credits .168