Looking at Nature
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Mathematicians say that symmetry has to be identical parts, but nature is never truly identical. However, it is far more interesting than geometric shapes! Reading this book, children will be delighted by amazing photographs of butterflies, beetles, leaves and flowers, fruit, sea creatures, and children.
This title is suitable for ages 4 to 7 years. This series describes primary-level basics, such as shape, color, pattern, texture, size, sequence, and location. What makes this series so different is that all of the examples, shown in photographs, come from nature and foster a greater understanding and interest in the natural world. Children will look at nature in a very different way after reading these books!
This engaging book shows extreme differences in sizes, colors and light, texture, smell and taste, the states of water, landforms, positions and directions on Earth, seasons, and even in people. An activity spread asks children to find opposite characteristics in a group of animals.
Classification is one of the first skills that children need to learn. This fun book asks children to observe different creatures to see what makes them the same and different.
Young readers will love learning how different plants and animals move. Sunflowers turn their heads to face sunlight, some plants close their flowers at night, and others move their heads to trap insects. Animals on the ground walk, run, hop, leap, and crawl. Animals with wings fly, flap, soar, and glide. Animals that live in water swim, dive, and leap. Young readers will become aware of the different ways in which plants and animals move, as well as learn new vocabulary about movement through questions and activities.
This engaging book looks at human time as well as how time passes in nature. How do animals and plants sense changes in time? What changes do we see in nature throughout a day, month, and year?
How does the bark of a tree feel? How is it different from a snake's skin? This engaging new book features close-up photos of different textures found in nature.
Children will learn about patterns that are predictable events such as day and night, seasons, and weather. They will also be delighted to discover that bees dance and birds migrate using certain patterns.
This entertaining new book shows examples in nature that correspond with each color in the rainbow. Children will also learn how to combine certain colors to make new colors.
This book is suitable for ages 4 to 7 years. Nature is full of patterns. Patterns are made up of shapes such as spots, stripes, circles, triangles, and combinations of these. Colours play a big part in patterns as well. Bobbie Kalman's book helps explain how some patterns help camouflage animals or scare predators away, and how certain patterns seem to appear everywhere in nature! For example, spirals can be seen in the formation of flower petals, the construction of many seashells, in ocean waves, and in hurricanes.
This book is intended for ages 4 to 7 years. This simple book uses wonderfully appealing images in nature to teach children about location, orientation, and the relative position of objects. These early concepts include left and right; on, under, above, and over; between and in the middle of: far, near, and beside; inside and outside; around, across, and through; and many more position and location words.
This fun book is about animal behavior. Topics include camouflage and mimicry, color changes, migration, animal senses and adaptations, courtship dances, care from mammal mothers, playing dead, scary body parts, tongue teasers, and some silly stuff to encourage story writing.
This title is suitable for children of ages 6 to 8 years. Structures are part of many primary curriculum guidelines. They usually mean human-made structures such as bridges. Structures are made up of parts arranged in a way that serve a certain purpose. This book looks at natural structures such as plants, animal bodies, mountains, caves, rock formations, and icebergs, the materials from which they are made, and their colours, shapes, and textures. It shows structures made by animals, such as beehives and bird nests. The book also compares natural structures to human-made structures, such as natural bridges and human-made bridges, a ladybug and cars shaped like beetles, a bird and an airplane, and giraffes and construction cranes. This wonderful book with amazing photos will encourage young readers to notice colours and shapes in nature and how they relate to the purpose of structures.