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Plant Stems & Roots
Highlights stems and roots, the essential plant parts that give radishes, blackberries, peas, milkweed, corn, strawberries, and trees.
- GenresPlants
16 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 1998
About the author
David M. Schwartz
88 books29 followers As a child, I was filled with a sense of awe as I contemplated the universe. The huge numbers of stars and their sizes and distances never failed to amaze me. With binoculars and magnifying glass, I also focused on closer subjects like birds, flowers, frogs and bugs.
But science and math weren't my only fascinations: I also loved bicycles, baseball, boats…and ice cream. Years later, on a clear spring night, I looked up at the sky and a shower of memories descended. I suddenly remembered my childhood awe at the wonders of space.
That night I was inspired to write my first book, How Much Is a Million? Now, almost 50 books later, I spend much of my time finding unusual, whimsical ways to make math and science come alive for kids and teachers, both through my writing, and through speaking at schools and conferences. I also write science articles for magazines, especially Smithsonian, and to do the research I've made exciting trips to some of the more remote corners of several continents. I've been to Africa to study hippos, to South America to visit an indigenous tribe living in the rain forest, and to far northern Scotland to track illegal egg collectors. But I still love the land outside my door in northern California, and the same distant stars that inspired me years ago.
from http://www.davidschwartz.com/about_da...
But science and math weren't my only fascinations: I also loved bicycles, baseball, boats…and ice cream. Years later, on a clear spring night, I looked up at the sky and a shower of memories descended. I suddenly remembered my childhood awe at the wonders of space.
That night I was inspired to write my first book, How Much Is a Million? Now, almost 50 books later, I spend much of my time finding unusual, whimsical ways to make math and science come alive for kids and teachers, both through my writing, and through speaking at schools and conferences. I also write science articles for magazines, especially Smithsonian, and to do the research I've made exciting trips to some of the more remote corners of several continents. I've been to Africa to study hippos, to South America to visit an indigenous tribe living in the rain forest, and to far northern Scotland to track illegal egg collectors. But I still love the land outside my door in northern California, and the same distant stars that inspired me years ago.
from http://www.davidschwartz.com/about_da...
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February 8, 2012
This is a good easy read that I would use in a 1-2 grade science lesson. I would use this book to start a lesson on the parts of a plant. Many students do not know that a tree is a any too. Many think that because a tree is so big it can't be a plant. I would use this book to illustrate that a tree has a stem, it is the trunk of the tree. Other pants have stems also. We would look at different plants and their roots and stems and look at the similarities and difference of each. I would explain that although it looks different on different plants it has the same function.
April 16, 2012
Quite nice. Learn a little something interesting on each page. Reinforces tap roots and fibrous roots. Learn milkweed sap and runners from strawberry plants. My girls liked it. Nice to find a short non-fiction book worth something.
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