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    Lakes and Ponds!: With 25 Science Projects for Kids
    Lakes and Ponds!: With 25 Science Projects for Kids
    Lakes and Ponds!: With 25 Science Projects for Kids
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    Lakes and Ponds!: With 25 Science Projects for Kids

    By Johannah Haney and Tom Casteel

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    What kind of life can you find in lakes and ponds?


    Imagine the smooth, glasslike surface of a pond, the water mirroring a bright moon or a crystal blue sky. The water appears perfectly calm and still. What’s going on underneath the surface?


    Lakes and Ponds! With 25 Science Projects for Kids invites kids ages 7 though 10 to investigate the bodies of water that might look calm from the shore but which are teeming with life and activity! Through fun facts and engaging content, readers explore the plants and animals living in lakes and ponds, from fish darting about to dragonfly nymphs gestating in the shallows to algae and aquatic plants converting sunlight into energy through photosynthesis. Discover fun facts about the duckweed, water lilies, and cattails growing in and around the waters of lakes and ponds. It’s a busy place!


    In Lakes and Ponds!, readers dive in to discover how lakes and ponds are formed, how they are different, and what kinds of animals and plants live there. Through investigative STEAM activities for elementary school ages, such as building a model of a floating city similar to Tonlé Sap, kids explore how humans have interacted with lakes and ponds throughout history and how we use this natural resource today. Discover how climate change and pollution affect the ecology of lakes and ponds and learn what you can do to help keep these biodiverse environments clean and healthy!


    From the Great Lakes, the Great Salt Lake, Walden Pond, Loch Ness, and the pond down the street from school, readers discover the life teeming in and around lakes and ponds. And did you know that large bodies of water have their own life cycles? Sometimes these can last for days, sometimes for thousands of years!


    STEAM projects for kids that promote the use of the scientific method, including using ice and dirt to understand how glaciation gave shape to lake and pond basins and using moss found near lakes and ponds to make unique art projects, offer a unique, interactive learning experience, while links to online primary sources offer ample opportunity for further, student-led exploration. Fun facts, engaging illustrations, timeline, glossary, and resources keep kids wanting to learn more about these bodies of water.


    Explore Lakes and Ponds! is part of a set of four Explore Waterways books from Nomad Press. In the Explore Waterways set, readers ages 7 to 10 learn about the waterways of our world, including the what, where, how, and who about the origination, content, and aquatic life that water contains. Through science-minded STEAM projects and experiments that encourage readers to think of waterways as part of a larger ecosystem, kids develop critical and creative thinking skills about the role waterways play in our world.

    Titles in the Explore Waterways set include Marshes and Swamps! With 25 Science Projects for Kids; Lakes and Ponds! With 25 Science Projects for Kids; Oceans and Seas! With 25 Science Projects for Kids; and Rivers and Streams! With 25 Science Projects for Kids.

    Nomad Press books in the Explore Your World series for children ages 7–10 integrate content with participation. Common Core State Standards, the Next Generation Science Standards, and STEM Education all place project-based learning as key building blocks in education. Combining content with inquiry-based projects stimulates learning and makes it active and alive. Nomad’s unique approach simultaneously grounds kids in factual knowledge while allowing them the space to be curious, creative, and critical thinkers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNomad Press
    Release dateNov 3, 2018
    ISBN9781619307001
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      Lakes and Ponds! - Johannah Haney

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      CONTENTS

      What Lives in Lakes and Ponds?

      Introduction

      What Are Lakes and Ponds?

      Chapter 1

      Why Lakes and Ponds Are Important

      Chapter 2

      Humans, Lakes, and Ponds

      Chapter 3

      Animals in Lakes and Ponds

      Chapter 4

      Plants in Lakes and Ponds

      Chapter 5

      Changing Lakes and Ponds

      Chapter 6

      Practicing Conservation!

      Glossary*Metric Conversions

      Resources*Essential Questions*Index

      Interested in primary sources? Look for this icon. Use a smartphone or tablet app to scan the QR code and explore more! Photos are also primary sources because a photograph takes a picture at the moment something happens.

      You can find a list of URLs on the Resources page. Try searching the internet with the Keyword Prompts to find other helpful sources.

      KEYWORD PROMPTS

      WHAT LIVES IN LAKES AND PONDS?

      Many plants and animals make their homes in lakes and ponds. Here is a glimpse of just a few—you’ll meet many more in the pages of this book!

      INTRODUCTION

      WHAT ARE LAKES AND PONDS?

      Imagine you’re a turtle slipping under the surface of the fresh water of a lake. You spot schools of different types of fish swimming by. You might see the long legs of a wading bird.

      You spot plenty of plants, some which are rooted in the bottom of the lakebed and others that float on the surface of the water. The lake is cool and pleasant and teeming with life!

      A lake or pond is an area of slow-moving, open water surrounded by land on all sides. Lakes and ponds can be found everywhere on the earth’s continents—even in deserts!

      What is the difference between a lake and a pond? People who study lakes and ponds are called limnologists.

      They will tell you that a pond is smaller and may be shallow enough to have rooted plants growing across its entire bottom. Lakes are larger and are often deeper. While they may be full of plant life, plants with roots cannot live in the deepest depths.

      WORDS TO KNOW

      limnologist: a person who studies inland waterways.

      glaciation: the process of glaciers carving out depressions in the land, which later became lakes.

      ice age: a period of time when ice covers a large part of the earth.

      glacier: a huge mass of ice and snow.

      saline: describes lakes and ponds that contain salt.

      algae: a plant-like organism that lives in water and grows by converting energy from the sun into food.

      sediment: bits of rock, sand, or dirt that have been carried to a place by water, wind, or a glacier.

      HOW DO LAKES AND PONDS FORM?

      Many lakes and ponds were formed by a process called glaciation. During the last ice age, between about 10,000 to 20,000 years ago, huge glaciers slid slowly across the land.

      LAKE HILLIER

      Lake Hillier is a saline lake on an island off the western coast of Australia. Because of a certain type of algae called Dunaliella salina that live in the waters, the lake appears bubblegum pink when viewed from above, and a clear pink when viewed from the ground. And it’s not the only pink lake in the world! Dusty Rose Lake in British Columbia, Masazir Lake in Azerbaijan, and Laguna Colorada in Colombia are all lakes with pink colors because of algae, salt, or red sediments.

      As the ice moved, it carved out deep gashes in the land, called depressions. When the glaciers melted, these depressions filled up with water, making many of the lakes and ponds we enjoy today.

      The basin of a lake or pond is the hollowed-out area of the earth that fills with water. Lakes and ponds that were formed from glaciation are called glacial lakes. When you swim in a glacial lake, you are swimming where an enormous block of ice once sat!

      Other lakes and ponds are caused by the movement of tectonic plates. These are the large sections of the earth’s crust that fit together like puzzle pieces.

      WORDS TO KNOW

      depression: a hole or low spot in the land.

      basin: a hollow in the land into which water flows, forming a waterway.

      glacial lake: a lake formed by the movement of glaciers.

      tectonic plates: large sections of the earth’s crust that move on top of the hot, melted layer below.

      crater lake: a lake formed by a collapsed volcano.

      CRATER LAKES

      When you think of volcanoes, you probably think of a mountain with steam and smoke escaping from the hole on top, and maybe even lava running down the side. Did you know volcanoes can turn into lakes? These are called crater lakes. One of the most famous crater lakes in the United States is Crater Lake in Oregon. Almost 8,000 years ago, Mount Mazama volcano collapsed, leaving a basin that is now filled with pure, clear water. This is the deepest lake in the United States! Learn more about Crater Lake in Chapter 5.

      WORDS TO KNOW

      tectonic lake: a lake formed

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