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Project Seahorse (Scientists in the Field)
by
Pamela S. Turner (Goodreads Author),
Scott Tuason
Seahorses, some of the ocean’smost charming fish, are in trouble.In the past twenty years their populations has declined.They are threatened by overfishing, pollution and climate change. In Handumon in the Philippines, villagers and conservationists have joined to protect the seahorse and the coral reefs wherethey live. Amanda Vincent and Heather Koldewey, founders of Proj...more
Hardcover, 64 pages
Published
July 12th 2010
by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
(first published 2010)
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Science teachers will want to add this book describing Project Seahorse and the hard work of Amanda Vincent and Heather Koldeway, two scientists who have dedicated their lives to saving seahorses. The book focuses on the work they and their Filipino colleagues and local fishers have accomplished to protect the seahorses in Handumon, a small village in the Phillipines where blast-fishing has destroyed the habitat, including coral reefs, and the fish that live there. In addition to describing how...more
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2. Project Seahorse is about the work of two scientists in their attempt to explore the world of the tiger seahorse. Not only does this book give readers information on the life cycle of the seahorse but it also educates the reader on where one could find the species as well as how we can preserve these creatures. After reading through the book one could conclude that the species is steadily becoming endangered due to other marine predators as well as unsustainable practices resu...more
2. Project Seahorse is about the work of two scientists in their attempt to explore the world of the tiger seahorse. Not only does this book give readers information on the life cycle of the seahorse but it also educates the reader on where one could find the species as well as how we can preserve these creatures. After reading through the book one could conclude that the species is steadily becoming endangered due to other marine predators as well as unsustainable practices resu...more
Genre: Informational
Summary: Project Seahorse is a great informational title for children hidden behind a fun facts and fascinating underwater pictures. It tells the story of two divers exploring a reef in the night. The book covers the adventure of the divers search for Tiger Seahorse as well as numerous facts about the hidden creatures, including their food choice, adaptive techniques, mates, and habitat. It also goes in to several other aspects of the ocean world such as coral reefs, other oc...more
Summary: Project Seahorse is a great informational title for children hidden behind a fun facts and fascinating underwater pictures. It tells the story of two divers exploring a reef in the night. The book covers the adventure of the divers search for Tiger Seahorse as well as numerous facts about the hidden creatures, including their food choice, adaptive techniques, mates, and habitat. It also goes in to several other aspects of the ocean world such as coral reefs, other oc...more
Turner does a good job of explaining that, despite their unusual appearance, seahorses are fish. She does a really good job of explaining how male seahorses give birth and how this unusual reproductive strategy came to be. What she does a fantastic job of is explaining the integral role that seahorses play in life on earth, and why they are worth conserving.
She balances coverage of the seahorses and their underwater environment with the local people who feed their families and make a living thro...more
She balances coverage of the seahorses and their underwater environment with the local people who feed their families and make a living thro...more
I love reading about underwater life, so I knew this book would be good. Most of the activity in the book occurs in the Philippines, and talks about the efforts of scientists to study and protect the seahorses while finding ways to educate the villagers and obtain their cooperation. I loved the photos of the different species of seahorses--some look really bizarre--and did not realize that pipefish were related. These creatures are particularly interesting because it's the father who carries the...more
Pictures, lots of text, facts about seahorses. Some info about how humans and nature work together in conservation efforts. Not a narrative book; skips around a bit and lacks some focus. Chapter titles don't always coordinate with content. Some about importance of community support for conservation, not much about culture or challenges of Western science/local community relationships. Resources, index in back.
Another great entry in an award-winning series, Scientists in the Field, the vivid photos add to the story of the scientists' work and even the lives of the people of the island in the Philippines where their work is done. Gr. 4-8.
The text was good, but I wish the book had been a bit longer. I wanted to know more about the seahorses. Still, it is very informational, and the photographs are gorgeous.
With stunning, clean ocean photographs, this is a nice entry to the Scientists in the Field series, but it's not one of my favorites. Young marine biologists will snap it up, but I would have liked a bit more focus. The text meanders from seahorses to coral reefs to fishing practices and the photographs included meander along as well. Yes, all these things are connected, but maybe a subtitle or an introduction would have cleared up my expectations for the book. I just wanted more information and...more
Beautiful pictures. Easy to read text. Nice book to use for a non-fiction lesson.
This book is about an organization that studies seahorses in the wild.
This is part of a series called Scientists in the Field that portrays how scientists study various creatures. The one has stunning pictures of Seahorses and the particular they are studying in this case the Philippines.
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I was very interested in books as a child. I still remember how hard I worked as a four-year-old at learning to write my name because my mother promised I could have a library card as soon as I could scrawl "PAMELA." When my parents made me turn my bedroom lights out at night, I would read by the tiny red light on the temperature control for my electric blanket. I grew up in Riverside--a rather ho...more
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