| Description |
128 pages : colour illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Series |
The kitchen pantry scientist |
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Kitchen pantry scientist.
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| Note |
"With 25 illustrated biographies of amazing scientists from around the world"--Cover. |
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Includes index. |
| Summary |
"The Kitchen Pantry Scientist : Ecology for Kids features biographies of 25 leading ecologists, past and present, accompanied by accessible and engaging experiments and activities to bring the history and principles of ecology alive"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Audience |
Ages 7-10 Quarry Books. |
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Grades 2-3 Quarry Books. |
| Contents |
Alexander Von Humboldt (b. 1769) German: Use blue ice to learn about ocean currents -- Eunice Newton Foote (b. 1819) American: Perform a greenhouse gas experiment by trapping the suns energy -- Jean-Henri Fabre (b. 1823) French: Build an insect habitat to study isopod behavior -- Eugenius Warming (b. 1841) Danish: Make a paper cactus to see how cacti expand when it rains -- William Emerson Ritter (b. 1856) American: Capture invertebrates in their natural habitats -- George Washington Carver (b. 1884) American: Grow beans under different soil conditions -- Ed Ricketts (b.1897) American: Create a tide pool in a plastic tub -- G. Evelyn Hutchinson (b. 1903) English: Use a plastic bottle and nylons to capture plankton -- Dora Priaulx Henry (b. 1904) American: Fabricate a moving model of a barnacle -- Rachel Carson (b. 1907) American: Make a Secchi disk to test water clarity in a pond, lake, or stream -- Eugen Odom (b. 1913) American: Use quadrat sampling to study the biodiversity of ecosystems -- Akira Miyawaki (b. 1928) Japanese: Plant chia seeds to learn how trees protect soil -- E.O. Wilson (b. 1929) American: Make a sweep net to capture amazing arthropods -- C.S. Holling (b. 1930) Canadian: Make plaster casts of animal footprints -- O'Neil Ray Collins (b. 1931) American: Dissect a mushroom and make prints from the spores -- Sylvia Earle (b. 1935) American: Create an oil spill in a bowl and try to clean it up -- Wangari Maathai (b. 1940) Kenyan: Germinate beans in a jar and plant a tree -- Robin Wall Kimmerer (b. 1953) American: Take a closer look at moss -- Rodrigo Medellin (b. 1957) Mexican: Do an echolocation experiment to see how bats locate their prey -- Dana Bergstrom (b. 1962) Australian: Use a shoe and a stuffed animal to see how seeds are dispersed -- Aparajita Datta (b. 1970) Indian: Observe and illustrate insect/plant relationships -- Lisa Schultz Moore (b. 1971) American: Make prairie plant noodles in a jar -- Lesley de Souza (b. 1971) Brazilian/American: Build a rain forest terrarium or an aquatic ecosystem -- Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (b. 1980) American: Experiment with red cabbage juice to see how carbon dioxide acidifies the ocean -- Jodie Darquea Arteaga (b. 1980) Ecuadorian: Go fishing in a bowl to learn about bycatch. |
| Subject |
Ecologists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Ecology -- Experiments -- Juvenile literature.
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Ecology -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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Ecologists -- Biography.
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Ecology -- Experiments.
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Ecology -- History.
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Ecologists. (OCoLC)fst00901474
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Ecology -- Experiments. (OCoLC)fst00901497
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
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Instructional and educational works.
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Biographies.
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Illustrated works.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Heinecke, Liz Lee. Kitchen pantry scientist ecology for kids Beverly, MA, USA : Quarry Books, , an imprint of The Quarto Group, 2023 9780760375709 (DLC) 2022040542 |
| ISBN |
9780760375693 (trade paperback) |
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0760375690 (trade paperback) |
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9780760375709 (ebook) |
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