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    Explore Spring!: 25 Great Ways to Learn About Spring
    Explore Spring!: 25 Great Ways to Learn About Spring
    Explore Spring!: 25 Great Ways to Learn About Spring
    Ebook166 pages57 minutes

    Explore Spring!: 25 Great Ways to Learn About Spring

    By Lauri Berkenkamp and Alexis Frederick-Frost

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    From tracking spring peepers and raising tadpoles to learning about seeds and recording plant growth, Explore Spring! 25 Great Ways to Learn About Spring invites young readers to explore the wonders of spring by becoming scientists in the field. Combining hands-on learning with solid science, trivia, riddles, and terrific illustrations, projects investigate "the reason for the season" and include identifying trees and measuring their growth, recording soil temperature, and observing the forest floor. Bird migration and nest building are covered, and the movement of air and water is studied with experiments in capillary action and in such activities as "Making Parachutes," Making Kites," and "Mapping Air Currents with Bubbles."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNomad Press
    Release dateJul 1, 2007
    ISBN9781619300965
    Explore Spring!: 25 Great Ways to Learn About Spring

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    • 5/5
      This book is about exploring winter.The books alsotalk about different animals and the weather.I like this book because i explains different things about winter such as why it's so cold.I ould use the assignment that is in this book in my class.
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      excellent book with lots of experiments for kids to do. Very interesting and helpful info

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    Explore Spring! - Lauri Berkenkamp

    Introduction

    Let’s Investigate Spring!

    Look outside, it’s spring! Birds are building nests. Flowers are blooming. Trees have new, green leaves. And everywhere, animals have new babies to raise.

    Spring is a time of new life. It is a time when the world outside wakes up from winter. The days get longer and warmer. But why do we have spring, and why does it happen at the same time every year?

    This book is going to take a careful look at spring—the season between winter and summer. As you read this book you’ll see that spring is a time when the outdoor environment changes almost every day.

    You’ll get to do lots of experiments and projects to see those changes up close. You’ll find out some interesting stuff. And you’ll learn a lot of silly jokes and amazing facts, too. So get ready to step out of your snow boots and into your mud boots and learn about the season of spring!

    Be a Scientist!

    Most of the projects and activities in this book will have you ask questions and then try to come up with the answers: that’s what scientists call the scientific process. It’s the way scientists learn and study the world around them. What’s really interesting about the scientific process is that you can’t just ask a question, answer it, and then be done. You have to prove every answer you give so other people can get the same answer using the same method you did.

    Here’s how the scientific process works:

    You ask a question or have an idea about something, called a hypothesis.

    Then you come up with ways, or experiments to answer the question or prove your idea.

    You do the experiment to see if you can prove your idea.

    You change your idea based on the result of your experiment.

    Scientists of all Kinds

    Ascientist is a person who studies nature or the universe, or a part of nature or the universe. A scientist can study something as large as the sun, or as small as atoms. One thing you might notice is that many branches of science end in ology, like zoology, or biology. Ology means the study of. It comes from an ancient language called Greek. Many of the names for different types of scientists also come from Greek. For example, if you are a scientist who studies animals, you study zoology. If you study snakes, you are interested in herpetology. Herpeton is a Greek word, which means to creep. That’s a pretty good name for studying snakes, right? Can you think of some other scientific names that end in ology?

    WOW!

    For about 500 years now, the season after winter has been called spring because plants seem to spring from the earth. Many, many years ago, people used to call the season after winter lenten. Lenten used to describe how the days were getting longer, or lengthening. Lengthen, Lenten—get it?

    What else do scientists do?

    Scientists collect: they gather things to observe them.

    Scientists observe: they look at things carefully and notice what changes and what stays the same.

    Scientists sort: they organize the things they gather into different groups.

    Words 2 Know

    spring: the season in between winter and summer, from about March 21 to June 21 in the Northern Hemisphere and from about September 22 to December 21 in the Southern Hemisphere.

    scientific process: the way scientists ask questions and do experiments to try to prove their ideas.

    hypothesis: an unproven idea that tries to explain certain facts or observations.

    experiment: testing an idea.

    scientist: someone who studies science and knows a lot about it.

    activity

    Make a Science Journal

    One thing you’ll do to find the answers to your questions is look at things very carefully to see how they are changing. Then you’ll write down the changes you notice. Many scientists use a science journal to keep track of what they see. You can do this, too. Any notebook will work for a science journal, even just a few sheets of paper to write down what you see and do. You don’t need anything fancy. But if you would like to make a special science journal, here’s a fun way using an old paper bag, some cardboard, and wrapping paper. When you’re done your journal will look like it is covered in tree bark! Since you need to use scissors and a hole punch for this activity, make sure you have a grownup around to help.

    1Fold the pieces of white paper in half. Now you will have paper that is 8½ by 7 inches.

    2Cut the brown

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