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  • No Student Left Indoors: Creating a Field Guide to Your Schoolyard (Take a Walk series)
    No Student Left Indoors: Creating a Field Guide to Your Schoolyard (Take a Walk series)
    by Jane Kirkland

 

 

Retail Price $9.95 US

 

                
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Take A Tree Walk will teach you how to identify the trees in your backyard, schoolyard, and local park. Learn how to identify trees by observing the leaves, trunk, size and shape of the tree. Take this book with you outdoors so you can take field notes in the Field Notes pages, make lists of the trees you see and learn why trees are important to our environment. Read interesting stories by kids about their tree walks.

Take A Tree Walk is recommended by the National Science Teachers Association and by Jeff Corwin, Wildlife biologist and Emmy winning Executive Producer and host of Animal Planet’s popular TV series, The Jeff Corwin Experience. It also holds the National Gardening Association’s Seal of Approval and the The National Parenting Center’s Seal of Approval. Take A Tree Walk is a great gift for kids, families, and people who like to learn about trees and the environment or who just want to have some fun in the outdoors. Purchase your signed copy today.

Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 5.4

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Whooo live in trees?

How old is that tree?

Why do leaves turn color?

How does a tree grow?

What tree is that?

Learn about some of the mammals, birds, and other creatures that can be found in trees. Discover how to tell a squirrel’s nest from a bird’s nest.

Everyone knows that the rings of a tree can tell us its age. But here you learn how to estimate the age of a tree without cutting it down!

Discover why leaves turn color in the fall and learn how to identify trees by the color (and shape) of their fall leaves.

Learn what a tree needs to grow, how it gets nutrients from the soil and why dead trees are useful. Discover the growth rate of some of our most common trees.

Learn to identify trees by observing their leaves and bark as well as their flowers, fruits, cones, seeds and nuts. Learn the differences between coniferous trees and deciduous trees.

 

  ISBN 978-0-9709754-1-4
By Jane Kirkland
 
Price $9.95 U.S.
Trim size: 8 ½ X 11
Page count: 32
Interior: 4 color
Photographs: 61
Illustrations: 33
User Level: Ages 8 and up
Category: Juvenile nonfiction
Pub date: July 2002
Imprint: Take a Walk® Books
Publisher: Stillwater Publishing