Outdoor School: Rock, Fossil, and Shell Hunting: The Definitive Interactive Nature Guide

Outdoor School

by Jennifer Swanson, John D. Dawson (Illustrator)

Rewild your life! With metal corners and 448 full-color, highly illustrated pages, OUTDOOR ROCK, FOSSIL, AND SHELL HUNTING is an indispensable tool for young explorers and rock collectors.

Make every day an adventure with the
- Immersive activities to get you exploring
- Write-in sections to journal about experiences
- Next-level adventures to challenge even seasoned nature lovers

No experience is required―only curiosity and courage. This interactive field guide to rocks, fossils & shells
- Digging, chiseling, hammering, and wading for rocks and minerals
- Identifying rocks & minerals by location, texture, color, shape, and size
- Determining between rocks, geodes, and space rocks
- Finding fossils and setting up a dig site
- Searching and snorkeling for shells
- Storing and displaying your collection
And so much more!

Genres: Science, Reference, Nonfiction, Nature, Childrens

448 pages, Paperback

Published April 27, 2021

About the author

Science Rocks! And so do Jennifer Swanson’s books. She is the award-winning author of over 45 nonfiction books for children. Using her background in science and history that she received from the U.S. Naval Academy, and her M.S. in Education, Jennifer excels at taking complex facts and making them accessible, compelling, and humorous for young readers, Jennifer's passion for science resonates in in all her books but especially, Astronaut-Aquanaut: How Space Science and Sea Science Interact and BEASTLY BIONICS which both received Florida Book Awards and NSTA BEST STEM book awards. Her Save the Crash-test Dummies book received an NSTA BEST STEM Award and a Parent’s Choice GOLD Award. Jennifer has been a featured speaker at the Tucson Book Festival, National NSTA conferences, the Highlights Foundation, the World Science Festival (twice), the Atlanta Science Festival (twice) and the Library of Congress’ National Book Festival in 2019. You can find Jennifer through her website www.JenniferSwansonBooks.com.

Reviews

[Maria Marshall · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you enjoy, or want to try, collecting rocks, fossils, and/or shells, this is the perfect book for you! Divided into three sections, this book is designed to be used, not just as a guide, but as a detailed scientific log. Informative sections begin with very visual and easily accessible scientific descriptions, history, and classifications. Then invite interactivity with graphs, charts, and “badge-like” places to record fun hands-on exercises, experiments, and discoveries. It also includes guides for storing and displaying collections and a check list of 101 possible achievements.

[Linda]

This title has three functions, first, as a guide to observation and identification, second, as a journal/logbook and third as a reference for identification.

This title in the series focuses on rocks, fossils, and shells.

The geographic information is much appreciated and helpful to the budding naturalist.

[Ann Fallon Gaedeke · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good informational book.

[Lexi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this book! The drawings vs photos was a strange choice though