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Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Completing the Planet Earth trilogy, Planet Earth III explores the greatest habitats on our planet and the extraordinary animals that live in them. Filled with wonder and insight, Planet Earth III celebrates places and animals beyond our imagination. From the depths of the ocean to the most remote jungle, discover the planet2s last great wild places and the astonishing strategies animals have evolved to survive. Each episode focuses on a distinct...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Teaches elementary kids about Earth's water crisis and empowers them to do something about it. Filled with facts about our waters, their inhabitants, and the threats they face, Make a Splash! presents inspiring stories of kids in action and projects for kids to help them make a difference. Presented in fun, inspiring, and age-appropriate language. Service learning groups, youth groups, science teachers, and teachers of conservation and environmentalism...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In 1995, the gray wolf was reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park after a seventy-year absence. All these years later, we can clearly see the cascading effects this has had on the park's ecosystem. This is a spectacular example of a trophic cascade, the term used when an important member of an ecosystem goes missing and many other living things are indirectly affected, causing a chain reaction of events. In the case of the reintroduced wolves...
4) Mushrooms
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Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Mushrooms are some of nature's best friends. Why? They help support a healthy environment. And, believe it or not, they also benefit people. For example, mushrooms create soil by breaking down dead animals and plants. They remove pollutants from water and soil and can be used to make medicine. Mushrooms are also an important food source. Look inside to learn all about mushrooms, how they grow, and their many incredible uses!"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In less than a century, a bison population that once numbered in the millions and stretched across North America was reduced to just a few dozen animals primarily in Yellowstone National Park. DeSilvestro explores one of the greatest conservation comeback stories in American history-- yet its "success" is qualified. Most bison today live in commercial herds, contained like cattle. Are we willing to coexist with them as wild animals who need freedom...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
One of the most ambitious landmark series allows us to experience the world from the viewpoint of the animals themselves. Traveling through jungles, deserts, mountains, islands, grasslands, and cities, this series explores the unique characteristics of Earth's most iconic habitats and the extraordinary ways animals survive within them. New technology has allowed individual stories to be captured in an unparalleled level of detail.
8) Tundra biome
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The tundra is just one of earth's many biomes. It is one of the coolest biomes on the planet... freezing actually! Get ready to read some interesting facts about who lives in this biome and what it is like"--Provided by publisher.
10) Building
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A beaver family works hard to rebuild when their dam is threatened by storms in this beautifully illustrated follow-up to Nesting that introduces young children to beginning life science concepts.
11) Log life
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A nonfiction picture book that's all about the tiny world of nurse log habitats. Nurse logs are tiny ecosystems with hundreds of rare and important life forms. When old trees fall to the forest floor, they can take centuries to decompose, helping all sorts of organism for hundreds of years. They provide nutrients for tree seedlings, hideaways for small animals, shelters for the winter, and protection from the elements"--
12) Animals
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This unique search-and-find adventure lets kids explore and learn about the objects and creatures they find and their habitats with fun facts and awesome photographs. This fact-filled search-and-find adventure activity book takes kids around the world in search of more than 250 hidden pictures of animals. Kids will crisscross the planet to explore some of Earth's most unique animal habitats, from the Amazon rainforest to the African savanna to the...
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Creature teachers Chris and Martin Kratt will take families along on extraordinary animal-powered adventures. The show transforms the Kratt Brothers into animated versions of themselves, allowing the real-life zoologists to visit wild animals in their little-seen habitats and showcase key science concepts.
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