Explore Fossils! with 25 Great Projects
Explore Fossils! with 25 Great Projects
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Just the Series: Explore Your World   

Series and Publisher: Explore Your World   

Annotation: Introduces the study of dinosaurs and the history of life on Earth as revealed by fossils.
Genre: [Paleontology]
 
Reviews: 3
Catalog Number: #125448
Format: Publisher's Hardcover
Publisher: Nomad
Copyright Date: 2016
Edition Date: 2016 Release Date: 01/19/16
Illustrator: Stone, Bryan,
Pages: 92 pages
ISBN: 1-619-30331-0
ISBN 13: 978-1-619-30331-7
Dewey: 560
Dimensions: 27 cm.
Language: English
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This latest title in the dependable Explore Your World! series takes on not just fossils but also the related topics of dinosaurs, geology, and ecosystems, as well as the role of scientists in discovering the past. Each chapter presents its information engagingly with plenty of well-inserted vocabulary support, age-appropriate riddles, and a cartoon explorer dinosaur wearing cargo shorts. Chapters conclude with several projects that engage creativity, exercise reason and math knowledge, and help practice observation skills. Required equipment and supplies are readily available in most households. The topic holds inherent interest to many in the target audience, and they should come away with a sound foundation in scientific fact, usable tips on how to derive evidence, and starting points from which to explore further. Browsers, of course, will have a fine time, but this book is even better suited for STEM programs, including those at camps and in museums.

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Bibliography Index/Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-90) and index.
Reading Level: 3.0
Interest Level: 3-6
Lexile: 860L

In Explore Fossils! With 25 Great Projects , readers can expand their dinosaur obsessions into learning opportunities that take them beyond Triceratops , Stegosaurus , and even Tyrannosaurus rex to other animals, plants, and microbes that lived long before humans. Explore Fossils! introduces young readers to the history of life on Earth as revealed by fossils. Kids learn how fossils form and about the different types of fossils and the world of long ago?its landscape and the plants and animals that lived then. Scientists use radiometric dating to test fossils to discover when they were made, what organisms made them, what those organisms used for energy, what killed them, and a whole lot of other information. All from rocks! That's a lot of information stored under our feet. Activities include creating plaster fossils, using popcorn to illustrate radiometric dating, and exploring what might have caused mass extinctions by making a lava flow and simulating an asteroid impact. By studying the past, not only do students meet amazing plants and animals, they are also encouraged to consider their own role in geological time to make thoughtful hypotheses about the future.


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