Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Nonfiction >> Science & Nature - General (See Also Headings Under Animals or Technology)

Why should you be a friend to trees?

Trees are a valuable natural resource. People depend on trees for food, and animals depend on trees for food and shelter. But most important, we depend on trees because they add oxygen, a gas we all need, to the air. While trees give us many wonderful products, we must also protect them because we can't live without them.

Through rhyming text and colorful collages, students explore how eggs turn into caterpillars and then into butterflies.

Humans have long regarded owls with a mixture of fear and fascination. Since most owls are nocturnal, and many live in remote habitats, they were not well studied until the past two decades. Packed with accurate information, this book covers owl classification and history, habitat and life cycle. Watercolor and colored pencil illustrations.

Scholastic True or False is a science series aimed at second and third graders in a fun question-and-answer format. Each book contains 22 true-or-false questions with a full-color photograph of adorable baby animals, or butterflies and caterpillars, on every page.

Bursting with exciting activities, The Great Outdoors Games & Puzzles will keep even the most adventurous children on their toes Buckley the beaver and his pal Daffodil the duck lead the way on this intrepid expedition full of puzzles, riddles, and brainteasers created by master puzzle makers Helen Hovanec and Patrick Merrell. With plenty of fun facts and outdoor trivia, this lively and enriching activity book will keep children entertained for hours on end."

As a boy, Alexander ?Sandy? Calder was always fiddling with odds and ends, making objects for friends. When he got older and became an artist, his fiddling led him to create wire sculptures. One day, Sandy made a lion. Next came a lion cage. Before he knew it, he had an entire circus and was traveling between Paris and New York performing a brand-new kind of art for amazed audiences.

This is the story of Sandy's Circus, as told by Tanya Lee Stone with Boris Kulikov's spectacular and innovative illustrations. Calder's original circus is on permanent display at the Whitney Museum in New York...

Connect students in grades 5-8 with science using General Science: Daily Skill Builders. This 96-page book features two short, reproducible activities per page and includes enough lessons for an entire school year. It provides extra practice with physical, earth, space, and life science skills. Activities allow for differentiated instruction and can be used as warm-ups, homework assignments, and extra practice. The book is perfect for review and practice and supports NSE and Common Core State Standards.

IF YOU COULD ASK A NOBEL PRIZE WINNER ANYTHING YOU WANTED...

Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has honored the world's great geniuses in the most important fields: physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, economics, and world peace. What if children could ask these creative thinkers about some of life's most intriguing mysteries, such as "Why can't I live on french fries?" and "What is love?" The answers from the Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Shimon Peres, Desmond Tutu, and seventeen other Nobel Prize laureates are rich with surprise, humor, and of course, wisdom. Every single answer...

This gorgeously illustrated volume of poetry -- sprinkled with facts and fun things to do -- sows an early love for nature in all its beauty and wonder.

The buzz of bees in summertime. The tracks of a bird in the winter snow. This beautiful book captures all the sights and sounds of a child's interactions with nature, from planting acorns or biting into crisp apples to studying tide pools or lying back and watching the birds overhead. No matter what's outside their windows -- city streets or country meadows -- kids will be inspired to explore the world around them. Written by...

Linking to a popular feature in the super successful National Geographic Little Kids magazine, this book brings the browsable fun of the bestselling National Geographic Kids Almanac to a new audience: preschoolers Using an interactive question-and-answer format and content grounded in a child's immediate world, the Big Book of Why delivers lively information, hands-on games, simple recipes, crafts, and more. What makes a car go? How does mushy dough become a crispy cookie? What does the doctor see in my throat? An essential parent reference, The Big Book of Why...

Did you know that a great white shark can weigh as much as 15 gorillas, that you drink the same water as the dinosaurs did, or that there's a car that drives underwater?

This supersized, hardcover addition to the blockbuster Weird But True series, Ultimate Weird But True is packed 1,000 amazing facts and eye-popping photos that prove truth really is stranger than fiction. With a colorful, metallic cover, a kid-friendly design, and a wacky sense of humor, this stunning book will give kids a winning combination of smarts and fun.

Flip through these boldly-designed pages...

Ultimate Weird But True 2 proves once again that truth really is stranger than fiction--with even more outrageous photos and fun-tastic facts Did you know that an elephant can weigh as much as 14 lions, that Albania has 27 words for "mustache," or that each square inch of your skin is crawling with 32 million bacteria? Dive into this wacky world, and discover the weirdest animals, freakiest foods, extremely odd sports, mind-bending inventions, and so much more