Maya's Mangrove Mission
🌿 BOOK & STEM KIT BOTH AVAILABLE NOW 🌿
MAYA'S
MANGROVE MISSION
Bilingual Spanish & English Edition
The bilingual Spanish/English edition is available now in paperback, ebook, and library lending via OverDrive. Perfect for ELL and ESL learners, dual-language classrooms, and any child building literacy in two languages. An English-only edition is also available. The companion bilingual STEM Community Programming Kit — 16 modules, 6 regional editions — is ready too.
Two languages, one mission: protecting the mangroves.
Prefer English only? Get the English edition on Amazon.
The bilingual edition is also distributed through IngramSpark to bookstores, schools, and libraries.
Bilingual Spanish & English Edition
Maya is a Jamaican girl who learns about the vital role mangroves play in protecting her island and the animals that live there — and she sets out on a mission to protect them. Told fully side by side in Spanish and English.
Bilingual edition available now.
Prefer English only? Get it on Amazon.
The bilingual book and the STEM kit are both here.
Maya's Mangrove Mission is available now in a bilingual Spanish/English edition — paperback, ebook, and library lending via OverDrive — with an English-only edition also available. The book pairs with a full bilingual STEM Community Programming Kit built around it: hands-on coastal engineering labs, discussion guides, standards alignment, and take-home family sheets, every module fully translated, side by side, for Spanish Dual-Language Immersion classrooms.
What's inside the STEM kit — 16 modules, nothing extra to prep.
Facilitator's Guide
A turnkey roadmap with Before / During / After checklists for a zero-friction launch.
90-Minute Lesson Plan
A flexible full-session timeline — welcome, read-aloud, discussion, labs, and wrap-up.
Hands-On Labs
An interactive coastal defense lab: students design, test, and evaluate nature-based infrastructure — plus built-in math extensions.
Vocabulary Guide & Cards
Story and bonus vocabulary with printable, bilingual flashcards for matching and memory games.
Local Coastal Habitats
Six regional editions — New York, Atlanta/Georgia, California, Utah, Texas, North Carolina.
STEM Career Connections
Marine biologist, environmental engineer, conservation scientist, urban planner, and more.
Student Reflection Journal
Reflection prompts, a shoreline-barrier design workspace, and a letter-writing exercise to Maya.
Take-Home Family Sheets
Bilingual worksheets and a family mangrove promise that bridge classroom learning into the home.
Built for procurement, not just the classroom.
- Aligned to NGSS engineering design and CCSS ELA benchmarks, module by module.
- Formatted for Title I, Title III, and State Bilingual Allotment funding streams.
- Zero translation burden — every page is Spanish and English, side by side.
Two ways into the STEM kit.
The bilingual and English editions are already out — get them above. The STEM kit is ready too. Educators and principals can try a preview module before committing, and schools/districts can get full access to all 16 modules and every regional edition.
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Full access to all 16 modules of the bilingual STEM Community Programming Kit, plus every regional edition.
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