Take a Wetlands Walk

by Jane Kirkland

Packed with fun and interesting sidebars, color photographs, and artwork by other kids, this award-winning series is as useful in the classroom as it is fun to readers. Designed to educate, entertain, and help create environmental stewards for our planet, the format presents science in a way that helps teachers address both national and state science and literacy standards. Topics are presented in convenient spreads that enable readers to flip throughout the books, and they provide definitions, resources, poetry, and quotes by celebrated people. The entire series is recommended by the National Science Teachers Association.   Children reconnect with nature while developing an understanding and appreciation of the wetlands with this guide. Readers will learn about various types of wetlands such as marshes, bogs, floodplain forests, and swamps; how wetlands are formed; their function as a food source; and how they serve as nurseries for animals. They will also become acquainted with the birds, frogs, turtles, hawks, insects, mollusks, and more, which inhabit the wetlands. With this book and their in-field experiences, the children will begin to understand the effects of humans on the wetlands' ecosystems and why the wetlands are becoming a focus of environmentalists and conservationists all over the world.

32 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2008

About the author

Jane Kirkland was a bestselling computer book author when, during a grocery shopping trip, saw a Bald Eagle soaring over the grocery store parking lot. That sighting changed her life and today she is an award-winning nature book author. Jane and her books encourage children, their families and educators to "Take a minute to be in it(tm)" - in nature- each and every day. She is the recipient of the National Arbor Day Foundation's Education Award, two Teacher's Choice Awards, a Writer's Magazine Book Award, and her books have been finalists in Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year, and USA BookNews Best Books. Jane has been featured on Animal Planet, PBS, and Comcast's CN8 TV and is a regular guest on WXPN's Kids Corner radio program in Philadelphia. She is a popular keynote speaker at national conferences on children and nature and visits schools, colleges and universities throughout North America. "