Biodiversity: Explore the Diversity of Life on Earth with Environmental Science Activities for Kids

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Booklist Top 10 Books on the Environment & Sustainability for Youth: 2020 Age range 4 to 6 Look around you - biodiversity is everywhere! From the tallest tree to the smallest microbe, Earth is home to more than 1.5 million known species of plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, and microorganisms. And scientists estimate there could be millions, if not billions, more that have not yet been identified. Biodiversity: Explore the Diversity of Life on Earth with Science Activities for Kids introduces middle schoolers to the evolution of life on Earth, beginning with the first single-celled organisms that emerged 3.8 billion years ago to the complex, multi-celled organisms that exist today and make up the tree of life. Biodiversity is found everywhere on the planet--on land, in the water, and even in extreme environments such as ice and volcanoes. Biodiversity can also be discovered by looking through a microscope at tiny worlds of organisms that can't be seen with the human eye. There are whole microbiomes beneath our feet, in puddles, and even in our belly buttons!

Laura is an author, writing consultant, and former middle school teacher. She has written more than 20 books for the education market on a wide range of both science and social studies subjects. She is the author of Extinction: What Happened to the Dinosaurs, Mastodons, and Dodo Birds? from Nomad Press and a long-time member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. Laura lives in Boulder, Colorado.Tom Casteel is an illustrator and cartoonist that graduated from the Center for Cartoon Studies in 2011. He has illustrated more than two dozen books for Nomad Press. He lives in South Bend, Indiana, with his family.

Booklist Top 10 Books on the Environment & Sustainability for Youth: 2020. Activities and accessible text bring the importance and complexity of biodiversity to upper-elementary and middle-school students. BOOKLIST STARRED REVIEW Nomad applies its dependable activity-book format to the new Built It Environmental Science series (4 titles). Here biodiversity is placed under the microscope--sometimes literally--in a text that makes daunting concepts, such as evolution, levels of biodiversity (genetic, species, or ecosystem), and why biodiversity matters, easy to understand without sacrificing scientific precision. . . By book's end, readers will truly understand what biodiversity is, its importance to the health of the planet, and humans' impact on the complex natural systems where it thrives. Booklist Top 10 Nonfiction Series for 2020 Build It Environmental Science (4 titles) Gr. 4-8. Mixing comics and thoughtfully designed activities with solid information, this series accessibly explores with precision such topics as biodiversity, biomes, and Earth's garbage problem. Praise for Laura Perdew for Extinction National Science Teachers Association Recommends "This book uses the concept of extinction to teach a little chemistry, a little climatology, paleontology, biology (biodiversity), ecology, and a lot of geology. The science information is historical and current, drawing on three-dimensional learning, incorporating science practices to determine what factors affect extinction in general and specifically. The integration of concepts help bring the science alive and relevant."