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How Do You Know It's Spring?

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New plants poke through the soil. Birds build nests and lay eggs. Kids play outdoors longer after school. What does it all mean? It must be spring! From changes in the growth cycles of plants to the signs of spring that can be found in backyards, parks, woodlands, wetlands, cities, and farms all across North America, this colorful book will give kids an exciting opportunity to explore nature in action. Activities, such as recording relative changes in temperature, precipitation, and the length of days in weather notebooks, give readers a chance to gain insights beyond the facts and figures. Expertly crafted to meet early elementary reading and science curriculum standards, How Do You Know It's Spring? introduces young readers to basic science concepts and the two fundamental components of scientific inquiry—making observations, and drawing inferences from those observations.
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    • School Library Journal

      April 1, 2012

      K-Gr 3-This series highlights salient aspects of each season with descriptive text and a pleasant array of photos: colorful leaves, animals in snow, green buds, and bright blue skies. Though they sometimes lack detail and leave fundamental concepts underdeveloped, the books are appropriate introductions for the targeted age group. Suggested activities in each volume, such as journaling what time of day it gets dark, logging daily temperatures, collecting treasure-hunt items from nature, and measuring levels of precipitation, encourage observation, inference, experimentation, and practice of key scientific methodology concepts.

      Copyright 2012 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • The Horn Book

      July 1, 2012
      Brightly colored, kid-friendly photos illustrate this series introducing the seasons; information includes the change in amount of daylight, effects on living things, typical weather, and other signs of the seasons. Suggestions for observation, questions for critical thinking, and seasonal "treasure hunts" are highlights of the books, making up for the slightly crowded design and arid text. Reading list. Glos., ind.

      (Copyright 2012 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

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  • OverDrive Read
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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:3.6
  • Lexile® Measure:560
  • Interest Level:K-3(LG)
  • Text Difficulty:2-3

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