Support for long-term classroom planning and professional development. Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. The books in the series are designed to help students identify plants and animals when they go on walks. Each book in the series contains scrapbook pages and a ruler on the back cover to help the students make measurements and record notes and drawings. In this book, each species has its own page which includes descriptions of its appearance, habitat, and predators.
Boxes highlight additional facts and safety advice.
One typical page about the gooseberry plant describes it as a shrub that grows to three to five feet tall, with bell shaped flowers, and clustered berries. The colors of the flowers, texture of the berries, and their blooming and fruiting months are provided. Readers are told that these plants grow in dry ditches and wooded hillsides. Hummingbirds enjoy the flowers and blue jays, chipmunks, and skunks eat the fruit. In the Interesting Facts box, readers are told that the bottom of the berry is really the top.