Plants Fight Back: Discover the Clever Adaptations Plants Use to Survive!. This item is unavailable.Plants Fight Back: Discover the Clever Adaptations Plants Use to Survive!

Botany for kids! Beautiful illustrations in this nature book provide information on the clever adaptations that help plants survive.

How do you survive when danger is near and you are rooted in the ground? Plants use their defenses and fight back!

As readers turn the pages of this beautifully illustrated book, they will find fun and poetic language describing various situation where different plants find themselves under attack. This is followed by informative, science-based lessons about these plants and their survival methods. Backmatter includes a glossary and a STEM challenge activity to use at home or in the classroom.

Backmatter Includes:

• Explore More for Kids: photos and information about the plants in this book.
• Explore More for Teachers & Parents: Literacy and Science connections!

A perfect book for:

• parents and teachers in search of homeschool supplies for kindergarten (or any grade!)
• anyone looking for children's books to help instill an appreciation of our planet!

Gr 2-4-Full-page cartoon illustrations accompanied by rhyming text teach readers how to recognize and identify plants, including poison ivy, nettle, and poison oak. Dark-skinned and light-skinned children are depicted throughout the text. The illustration of a Boy Scout Troop hiking through the woods shows brown-skinned scouts with textured hair. The "Science Connection" section provides activities for teachers, educators, and/or group leaders to share with their students. "Literacy Connection" features tips for reading aloud and a short question and answer with Amstutz and Evans. A ten-word glossary is also included. Students are encouraged to design a plant and create a model of it. "Let's Have a Plant Party" is available online as a student handout, with a diagram. Surprising plant facts will engage readers: "Some fold their leaves and pretend to be dead, in hopes that a predator might be misled"; "When cotton plants are being eaten by caterpillars, they send out an "SOS signal"-an invisible cloud of chemicals-into the air." VERDICT Teachers and educators looking for unique material to explain plant science might want to give this title a try.-Susan Scheps, formerly at Shaker P.L., OHα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.