If you look outside, you'll see plants everywhere. In fact, plants are essential to life on Earth! Learn all about plants with these fun experiments and projects you can do outside or with materials you find outdoors.

* Wonderfully odd photos and vectors used to create a dystopian world* Text suitable for upper-KS1 readers* Playful, fun, adventurous and gross personality to the series* Perfect for KS1 science* Takes KS1 children's understanding of scientific concepts (eg how rain works) and extends and pushes that knowledge outside and beyond the box (eg what crazy things would happen to the world if rain was taken away?)

Dive into a new subject with the Know It All series. Each bookfocuses on a new topic and is packed with fascinating factsand stunning images. There is a lot to know, and this is theperfect place to start.

"Examples of the many ways plants and their seeds move-falling, clinging, burrowing, floating, via animal consumption or transport--in their quest to reproduce"--

Pollinating Plants introduces readers to the amazing ways in which plants pollinate and the insects and natural elements that help them do so. From School Library Journal: Gr 2-5-Nothing attracts young readers to botany as much as a book about meat-eating plants, but the other titles in this series will also be crowd-pleasers. Students will find plenty of amazing facts and photos to enjoy. The images dominate each spread, and the text is usually a short paragraph with an occasional "Did You Know?" textbox. Along with the information and captivating photos (honey possums will be a favorite), there are also helpful diagrams clearly labeled for easy reference. The series offers "Ideas for Teachers and Parents" at the beginning of each title, but it is the same general guide for each book. A suggested activity, complete with a list of materials and step-by-step directions, concludes each work. VERDICT A useful purchase for lessons on photosynthesis, adaptations, and natural resources, as well as updating the botany section in general.α(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

A dazzling pop-up book full of amazing facts about trees around the world, certain to entertain the entire family! Have you ever wondered how trees grow? Did you know that the Amazon rainforest is considered the “lungs of the planet”? Pop-Up Forest tells you everything you’ve always wanted to know about forest ecosystems around the world with fact-packed text, lively and colorful illustrations—and pop- ups! Discover what happens when trees communicate with each other; the kinds of creatures that live in them; and what the Scandinavian legend of Yggdrasil has to do with all of this. This fascinating book features detailed illustrations and stunning paper engineering for amateur biologists and nature lovers. Readers will delve deep beneath the root systems and climb up into the canopy to explore some of the oldest and most important trees alive. Anyone curious about how our forests work will be amazed!

Have you ever thought of plants as tricky? Probably not. But in this nonfiction book, readers are introduced to the tricky techniques some plants use to defend themselves, reproduce, or acquire food. From the copycat Boquila vine that changes shape to match its host plant, to the pungent carrion flower that lures pollinating flies with the scent of rotten meat, plants across the globe have adapted to survive all kinds of threatening fauna. Each amazing plant adaptation is described through fact bubbles and easy-to-grasp blocks of text. End matter includes a list of sources for kids to explore, a glossary defining scientific terms, and an index.