What is a Plant? (The Science of Living Things) - Softcover

Kalman, Bobbie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865059594 ISBN 13: 9780865059597

Publisher: Crabtree Classics, 2000

Synopsis

The Science of Living Things series helps children understand that they are as connected to trees, rocks, and weather as the animals that live outdoors! This important series helps define the basic concept of life and investigates the incredible world of living things. Each book explores a basic scientific concept or animal using:
-- easy-to-understand text
-- clearly labeled diagrams
-- exciting, full-color photographs

Plants provide people and animals with food, shelter, and even oxygen. Plants help us live and grow, but how does a plant grow? Where do plants grow? What is a Plant? introduces young readers to a variety of plant types, including ferns, carnivorous plants, mosses, and trees. This fact filled book explains:
-- photosynthesis
-- different methods of reproduction
-- how seeds germinate and grow
-- which types of plants grow in different climates
-- how plants defend themselves

About this title

About the Author:

Bobbie Kalman is the author and publisher of more than one hundred and fifty quality children's library books. She has created many of Crabtree's most popular series, including The Early Settler Life Series, The Historic Communities Series and The Crabapples Series of "starter" books for younger children. This year Bobbie has created the exciting new series Sports in Action. Bobbie's series are extremely successful in schools and public libraries because she writes them with specific curriculum needs in mind. She works with a writing team of creative writers who thoroughly research each topic. Colorful, attractive covers and entertaining text make her books sell equally well in bookstores and museums. Bobbie holds degrees in English, Psychology and Education. She has taught at both the elementary and secondary level. As well as being a teacher, Bobbie has worked as an educational consultant with several publishing companies.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

Making Food Moving toward light Plants cannot travel from place to place the way animals can, but they are able to move their stems, roots, and leaves to get the sunlight and water they need for photosynthesis. Plants sense where there is water, and their roots grow toward it. The stems and leaves of plants grow toward the sun or light such as a lamp.

About this edition

• Publisher: Crabtree Classics
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0865059594
• ISBN 13: 9780865059597
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32