"With 448 full-color, highly illustrated pages, Outdoor School is your indispensable tool for the outdoors. This interactive field guide to plant and mushroom spotting includes: immersive activities to get you exploring, write-in sections to journal about experiences, next-level adventures to challenge even seasoned nature lovers. No experience is required--only curiosity and courage. Inside you'll find easy-to-follow instructions on how to: grow mushrooms with cardboard, compare bark types, count tree rings, survey leaf patterns, create fern spore prints, press and preserve wildflowers - and so much more!"--
This highly visual, hands-on field guide for curious and courageous kids provides easy-to-follow instructions for growing mushrooms with cardboard, comparing bark types, counting tree rings, pressing and preserving wild flowers and more. Original. 75,000 first printing. Illustrations.
With 448 full-color, highly-illustrated pages, Outdoor School is your indispensable tool for the outdoors.
This interactive field guide to plant and mushroom spotting includes:
- Immersive activities to get you exploring
- Write-in sections to journal about experiences
- Next-level adventures to challenge even seasoned nature lovers.
No experience is requiredonly curiosity and courage. Inside youll find easy-to-follow instructions on how to:
- Grow mushrooms with cardboard
- Compare bark types
- Count tree rings
- Survey leaf patterns
- Create fern spore prints
- Press and preserve wildflowers
And so much more!
Nature is in session!
Daugiau informacijos
Nature is in session!
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PART I WHAT IS PLANT SPOTTING? |
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Chapter 1 Noticing and Identifying Plants |
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3 | (13) |
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Chapter 2 How Plants Live |
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16 | (13) |
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Chapter 3 Seeds and Fruits |
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29 | (6) |
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Chapter 4 Plant Powers and Problems |
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35 | (6) |
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Chapter 5 Where Plants Live |
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41 | (14) |
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55 | (10) |
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Chapter 2 Read Tree Leaves |
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65 | (8) |
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73 | (9) |
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Chapter 4 Decoding Twigs and Buds |
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82 | (7) |
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Chapter 5 Know Your Conifers |
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89 | (84) |
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Tree and Shrub Identification |
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98 | (75) |
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Chapter 1 Spotting Wildflowers |
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173 | (12) |
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Chapter 2 The Identifying Power of Flowers |
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185 | (9) |
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Chapter 3 Looking at Leaves |
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194 | (113) |
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Wildflower Identification |
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202 | (105) |
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Chapter 1 Spotting Nonflowering Plants |
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307 | (14) |
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Chapter 2 Identifying Ferns and Mosses |
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321 | (28) |
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Fern and Moss Identification |
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332 | (17) |
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PART V MUSHROOMS AND OTHER FUNGI |
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Chapter 1 Spotting Mushrooms and Other Fungi |
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349 | (14) |
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Chapter 2 Identifying Mushrooms and Other Fungi |
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363 | (45) |
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Mushroom and Fungus Identification |
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374 | (32) |
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406 | (2) |
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Mary Kay Carson is the author of more than fifty nonfiction books for young people. She's written six titles in the acclaimed Scientists in the Field series, including Park Scientists: Gila Monsters, Geysers, and Grizzly Bears in America's Own Backyard and The Bat Scientists, an ALA 2011 Notable Children's Books for Middle Readers. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, with her photographer husband, Tom Uhlman.
John D. Dawson has created art spanning four decades, from early years in advertising art to freelance work for the US Postal Service, National Park Service, United Nations, National Wildlife Federation, National Geographic Society, the Audubon Society, and the Golden Guide books. He and his wife Kathleen have lived on the Big Island of Hawaii since 1989.
