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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
Nature's repeating patterns, better known as fractals, are beautiful, universal, and explain much about how things grow. Fractals can also be quantified mathematically. Here is an elegant introduction to fractals through examples that can be seen in parks, rivers, and our very own backyards. Readers will be fascinated to learn that broccoli florets are fractals just like mountain ranges, river systems, and trees and will share in the wonder of math...
3) The Lorax
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1971]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
560L
Physical Desc
70 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
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"Celebrate Nature with Dr. Seuss in this classic story about protecting the Earth! Timely, playful, and hopeful, it teaches that just one small seed-or one small child- can make a difference." --
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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This title will teach kids what patterns they can find in nature. Text and images complement each other so that readers can easily learn what patterns are and how to recognize them the next time they are outside playing.
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They grow all around us, but how often do we stop and enjoy these wonderful, living giants?
In this title, kids will act as plant scientists to investigate how trees grow, how they get water, food and nutrients, how they produce the oxygen we breathe and clean the air around us, how they defend themselves and how they provide food and shelter for thousands of different animals. Readers will get to meet the tallest trees, the oldest trees and some...
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English
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"Part of the nonfiction Orca Footprints series for middle-grade readers, this book examines the connection between humans and nature, why that connection is important and what we can learn from being outdoors. Illustrated with photographs throughout."--
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English
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Author has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one hundred coins), to size differences (the planets shown as different types of balls).
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"A science educator honors children's curiosity and pockets full of "stuff" by introducing nine scientists who collected natural treasures when they were young. Collecting, sorting, and playing with shells, stones, and other objects taught these young people how to observe, classify, and discover"--
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Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
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The three books in the popular Shapes in Math, Science and Nature series, Squares, Triangles and Circles, provides engaging, well-written, interactive content that helps make geometry and measurement concepts graspable and even enjoyable, while also offering opportunities for lessons on a range of subjects from science, technology and engineering to social studies, art, and architecture. There are also numerous ideas for hands-on-learning activities...
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English
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Inspired by the hugely bestselling 5-Minutes Stories collections, children's author Gabby Dawnay and illustrator Mona K present 10 read-aloud stories that invite young nature lovers to celebrate the everyday miracles in a woodland with 5-Minute Nature Stories. Down by the meadow that blows wild and free, there’s a world full of wonders I want you to see ... Written in engaging rhyming text, each real-life tale in this 10-story collection introduces...
14) Trees
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
960L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm
Language
English
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"There are so many different kinds of trees in the world, and each has special qualities that make it unique. This lyrical, fanciful collection of poems celebrates the singular beauty of each tree, from the gnarled old apple tree to the tall and graceful aspen" --
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Each season has its own qualities that set it apart. Winter, with its stark-white crust of snow, turns even a mundane scene into a sparkling fairyland. Spring, along with her many shades of green, brings a promise of new beginnings. Summer gifts us with long, lazy days of endless blue skies and the scent of freshly mown grass. But fall has a magic, a secret, all its own. It offers a kaleidoscope of textures, smells, and colors. But what's behind those...
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English
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A gorgeous exploration of water and how it is essential to sustaining life on Earth. Using lilting, rhyming couplets, this book explores the many way that water is essential to our lives and the existence of life on earth. But it doesn't stop there! Kids will also learn about the many uses of water - and the environmental danger to water posed by pollution and lack of respect for this precious resource. Kids are encouraged to be kind, not only to...
19) Bella loves bugs
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English
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Bella Loves Bugs tells the story of a day in the life of a girl who is passionate about bugs, as she goes off to Forest School where she always has many creepy-crawly adventures with her fellow nature hero friends! The book is packed with facts about bugs, some of which Bella regularly spots, but also includes the bugs she dreams about seeing one day-different insects from all over the world. Bella makes a magical moth trap, spies a butterfly laying...
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Publisher
Zest Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
303 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
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"Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer's best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass is adapted for a young adult audience by children's author Monique Gray Smith, bringing Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation" -Publisher
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