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Item#: C5668
ISBN#: 0811730794
Illustrations by Pat Archer
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Transform your next beach outing into a science field trip — with this hands-on guide
Discover Nature at the Seashore
by Elizabeth P. Lawlor
In this handy guide you’ll find all you need to know to make a scientific expedition to the beach (or to a rocky shore, a salt marsh, and more). The author, science professor Elizabeth Lawlor, is completely practical: along with guidelines about what to take along in order to perform mini-scientific experiments right at the beach, she includes advice about how to dress and other ways you can be prepared for anything that might arise.
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In this handy guide you’ll find all you need to know to make a scientific expedition to the beach (or to a rocky shore, a salt marsh, and more). The author, science professor Elizabeth Lawlor, is completely practical: along with guidelines about what to take along in order to perform mini-scientific experiments right at the beach, she includes advice about how to dress and other ways you can be prepared for anything that might arise.
This book gives you hundreds of things to do at the beach when you’re tired of swimming — or later in the year, when it’s too cold to go into the water. Lawlor includes highly specific directions for exploring, observing, and experimenting with everything from fish and fiddler crabs to shore birds and barnacles. Along with these, you’ll find precise drawings that help direct you to what you’re looking for — whether it be the stomach area of a sea star, the foot of a blue mussel, or the tentacles of a mud snail!
There’s a little bit of talk of geological eras and natural selection here and there, but it doesn’t outweigh the hands-on value of this practical guide to science study at the seashore. Your outings will be more fun (and more informative) than ever with this guide in hand! Here are just a few of the things you and your kids will be able to do with it:
- Watch barnacles eat — using tiny feet to kick food into their mouths!
- Learn the structural blueprint of the fish, and determine which fish are the fastest swimmers by the way they’re designed
- Discover the secret of how a sea star turns itself over
- Make your own experimental “piling” in the water, and to determine the identity and habits of the organisms that come to live on it
- Determine the age of a mussel (and learn to guess the ages of other mussels by reading clues from where they live!)
- Compare seaweed to land plants, and identify their essential differences
- Capture the secretive movements of fiddler crabs — even though they’ll probably burrow into the sand as soon as you appear!
- Learn to distinguish the enormous variety of sea plants
- Read and follow mud snail trails, bird tracks, and other marks in the sand, to see where different creatures go and why
- Make a portable beachside “worm aquarium” to see how these enigmatic creatures eat and protect themselves
- Spot the elements of bird anatomy that make some birds good flyers and some good swimmers
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