Explore Winter!: 25 Great Ways to Learn About Winter

Description

Suitable for ages 7-9, this work combines hands-on learning with trivia, jokes, riddles, and illustrations. The chapters start with the "tools" of science - the scientific method and how to keep a science journal - and investigate the winter constellations, long nights and shadows, animal tracking in snow, and food-gathering behaviour in birds.

Lauri Berkenkamp: Author of six books for kids. Writing under the pen name Maxine Anderson she has written Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions You Can Build Yourself, which was excerpted in the New York Times Book Review and Christian Science Monitor, chosen as the #7 BookSense Children's Pick for Summer 2006. Alexis Frederick-Frost: Alexis Frederick-Frost is an award winning cartoonist and illustrator who lives with his wife in New Hampshire.

A Parents' Choice 2007 Recommended Award Winner "This entertaining, ecology-conscious book (printed on 50% post-consumer recycled paper) has enough facts and fun inside to keep budding scientists from getting cabin fever through an entire winter season. Kids VT "Get ready to lean about the season! Mix real science with real fun." Bookbuds "Explore Winter! and Explore Spring! are chock-a-block with facts and info-boxes on animal habitats, migration patterns, nesting habits, foraging, etc. Most [projects] looked simple, using stuff already cluttering your kitchen or family room, and could be done by a supervised five-year old or independent seven-to-nine year old. Take your kids hiking through the woods and look for signs of chewed acorns or nibbled branches. Deer! How cool." School Librarian's Workshop "For those not living in such cold climates, Maxine Anderson offers Gr. 1-4 an opportunity to Explore Winter! Interspersed within each chapter is at least one silly riddle "Just of Laughs" and assorted quick facts."