Natural History Collector: Hunt, Discover, Learn! (eBook)

Expert Tips on how to care for and display your collections and turn your room into a cabinet of curiosities

Michael Sanchez (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
128 Seiten
Quarry Books (Verlag)
978-1-63159-540-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Loaded with hands-on, kid-friendly projects, Natural History Collector: Hunt, Discover, Learn!will teach budding nature collectors techniques for cleaning, caring for, and displaying discovered treasures. Coming home from the beach or a walk in the woods with a fine collection of rocks, shells, pine cones, and seed pods is easy. The trick isknowing what to do with them once you get them back to your room. The real fun comes from identifying, preserving, and displaying your treasures!Natural History Collector: Hunt, Discover, Learn!is full of hands-on, kid-friendly projects for the budding naturalist. The opening chapter introduces kids to different ways of creating their personal field guides for keeping track of what they see, when and where they see it, and what makes it interesting. They'll move on to techniques for cleaning and caringfor treasures, such as drying flowers, pressing leaves, and desalinizing rocks and shells. The book's drawings and photographs will help kids discover what to look for when they examine feathers, seeds, and minerals (and recognize the difference between sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic). Extra projects focus on display; making shadow boxes, creating collectors' cases from egg cartons and candy boxes, labeling, hanging, and mounting collections.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.12.2017
• Zusatzinfo: color photos
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 220 x 220 mm
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Jugendbücher ab 12 Jahre
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher ► Tiere / Pflanzen / Natur
• Schlagworte: animal tracks • be a curator • be a curator of your own collection • become a nature expert • Bugs • cabinet of curiosities • cataloging collections • cleaning fossils • cleaning rocks • collecting nature • collecting tracks • discover nature • discover nature with kids • display boards • drying plants • exploring natural history • exploring nature with kids • field notebook • fossil crafts • fossils • geodes • grow crystals • help kids learn about nature • how to dry and press plants • how to make animal track casts • how to make a shadow box • identifying insects • kids and collecting • kids as curators • kids' science • learn about bugs • learn about fossils • learn about nature • learn about the things you collect • learning about the natural world • Learning from Nature • learn to recognize animal tracks • make a shadowbox • Maker • making casts of tracks • mounting insects • mounting plants • natural history advice from experts • Natural History Collections • Natural science • natural science for kids • nature collections • New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science • photographing tracks • pressing plants • rocks and minerals • Seashells • Steam • stem
• ISBN-10: 1-63159-540-7 / 1631595407
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63159-540-0 / 9781631595400