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Explore fossils! / Cynthia Light Brown & Grace Brown ; illustrated by Bryan Stone.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: White River, Vermont : Nomad Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 92 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1619303310
  • 9781619303317
  • 9781619303355
  • 1619303353
Subject(s):
Contents:
From the rocks -- Clues to the past -- Plants and microbe fossils -- Animals, including humans! -- Plant-eating dinosuars -- Meat-eating dinosaurs -- Boom and bust -- How paleontologists work.
Summary: "Introduces readers to the study of dinosaurs and the history of life on Earth as revealed by fossils. Through hands-on projects, vocabulary boxes, and high-interest content, children discover how fossils form and learn about the landscape and the plants and animals that lived long ago. Scientists use radiometric dating to test these fossils to discover when they were made, what organisms made them, what those organisms used for energy, what killed them, and a whole lot of other information."--Page 4 of cover.
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Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's NonFiction 560 B877 Available 33111008151637
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 560 B877 Available 33111008379972
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In Explore Fossils! With 25 Great Projects , readers can expand their dinosaur obsessions into learning opportunities that take them beyond Triceratops , Stegosaurus , and even Tyrannosaurus rex to other animals, plants, and microbes that lived long before humans.

Explore Fossils! introduces young readers to the history of life on Earth as revealed by fossils. Kids learn how fossils form and about the different types of fossils and the world of long ago--its landscape and the plants and animals that lived then. Scientists use radiometric dating to test fossils to discover when they were made, what organisms made them, what those organisms used for energy, what killed them, and a whole lot of other information. All from rocks! That's a lot of information stored under our feet.

Activities include creating plaster fossils, using popcorn to illustrate radiometric dating, and exploring what might have caused mass extinctions by making a lava flow and simulating an asteroid impact.

By studying the past, not only do students meet amazing plants and animals, they are also encouraged to consider their own role in geological time to make thoughtful hypotheses about the future.

"With 25 great projects"--Front cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-90) and index.

From the rocks -- Clues to the past -- Plants and microbe fossils -- Animals, including humans! -- Plant-eating dinosuars -- Meat-eating dinosaurs -- Boom and bust -- How paleontologists work.

"Introduces readers to the study of dinosaurs and the history of life on Earth as revealed by fossils. Through hands-on projects, vocabulary boxes, and high-interest content, children discover how fossils form and learn about the landscape and the plants and animals that lived long ago. Scientists use radiometric dating to test these fossils to discover when they were made, what organisms made them, what those organisms used for energy, what killed them, and a whole lot of other information."--Page 4 of cover.

Ages 7-10.

Guided reading level: V

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