Living Things
By: by Adrienne Mason ; photographs by Ray Boudreau
Contributors: Boudreau, Ray
Series: Starting with Science
Publisher: Heinemann Children's Reference
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Oxford [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780431016184; 9780431016139
Subjects: Biology; Juvenile literature; Experiments; Biologie; Expériences; Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Using only household equipment, children can turn kitchen tools into beaks and learn why birds eat what they do, tattoo plants to find out about photosynthesis, and study life cycles of insects. There are 13 science activities for children aged 6 to 9, requiring common-sense levels of supervision. Is it alive? Worm farm. Tattoo a plant. Feed a fungus. How's your breathing? Egg heads. Bottle habit. The eating game. Dirt dwellers. Fingerprint detective. Life cycles. Flower power. Secret smells.