RIVERS AND STREAMS!: WITH 25 SCIENCE PROJECTS FOR KIDS
Book ID/图书代码： 12580018C00180
English Summary/英文概要： Why are rivers and streams important to life on Earth?
Did you know that without rivers, human life might not have developed as it did? We might be a very difference species if it wasn’t for rivers, as would the other plants and animals who depends on rivers and streams for food, transportation, water, and power!
In Rivers and Streams! With 25 Science Projects for Kids, readers ages 7 to 10 dive in and discover how rivers change the shape of the land while plants, animals, and humans change the shape of rivers. Through fun facts, engaging content, and essential questions, kids learn about the vital role that rivers and streams have played in human history and explore the ways rivers and streams might affect our future. Science experiments that promote critical thinking and creative problem solving encourage kids to make their own discoveries about the waterways they might pass every day.
Talking about earth science means talking about climate change. How are rivers affected by our changing climate, and what can we do to help rivers and streams stay healthy in their changing environment? Rivers and Streams! encourages kids to think creatively as they search for actionable solutions to the problems faced by today’s waterways.
Student-led STEAM projects that promote the use of the scientific method, such as investigating a local watershed, looking for life in water samples, modeling how insects walk on water, and making a water wheel, let kids get their hands wet and their minds working as they make real-life connections to the text. Fun facts, engaging illustrations, links to primary sources, timeline, glossary, and resources make this a terrific introduction to one of earth’s most important resources—rivers and streams!
Rivers and Streams! is part of a set of four Explore Waterways books from Nomad Press. In Explore Waterways, 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. Other titles in the Explore Waterways set include Lakes and Ponds!, Oceans and Seas!, and Marshes and Swamps!
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 为什么河流和小溪对地球上的生命如此重要?你知道吗，如果没有河流，人类的生命可能不会像现在这样发展。如果没有河流，我们可能是一个非常不同的物种，就像其他依赖河流和溪流获得食物、交通、水和电力的植物和动物一样!
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About the Author/作者介绍： Rebecca Siegel is a writer and editor who has written about topics from computers to medicine, from bread and cheese making to printing, and from navigation applications to goat milk soap. She is happiest when she’s learning and writing about something new. Rebecca lives in Thetford, Vermont, along the west branch of the Ompompanoosuc River, which runs from the valley below her house to the Connecticut River.
Tom Casteel is an illustrator and cartoonist with a master’s degree from the Center for Cartoon Studies. Tom has illustrated several books for Nomad Press, including Explore Ancient Chinese Myths! With 25 Great Projects and The Oregon Trail: The Journey Across the Country from Lewis and Clark to the Transcontinental Railroad. He is working on his first graphic novel.
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