Ecology for kids : science experiments and activities inspired by awesome ecologists, past and present

9780760375693
0760375690

128 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Kitchen pantry scientist. Ecology for kids

Includes index

Alexander Von Humboldt (born 1769) German: Use blue ice to learn about ocean currents
Eunice Newton Foote (born 1819) American: Perform a greenhouse gas experiment by trapping the suns energy
Jean-Henri Fabre (born 1823) French: Build an insect habitat to study isopod behavior
Eugenius Warming (born 1841) Danish: Make a paper cactus to see how cacti expand when it rains
William Emerson Ritter (born 1856) American: Capture invertebrates in their natural habitats
George Washington Carver (born 1884) American: Grow beans under different soil conditions
Ed Ricketts (born1897) American: Create a tide pool in a plastic tub
G. Evelyn Hutchinson (born 1903) English: Use a plastic bottle and nylons to capture plankton
Dora Priaulx Henry (born 1904) American: Fabricate a moving model of a barnacle
Rachel Carson (born 1907) American: Make a Secchi disk to test water clarity in a pond, lake, or stream
Eugen Odom (born 1913) American: Use quadrat sampling to study the biodiversity of ecosystems
Akira Miyawaki (born 1928) Japanese: Plant chia seeds to learn how trees protect soil
E.O. Wilson (born 1929) American: Make a sweep net to capture amazing arthropods
C.S. Holling (born 1930) Canadian: Make plaster casts of animal footprints
O'Neil Ray Collins (born 1931) American: Dissect a mushroom and make prints from the spores
Sylvia Earle (born 1935) American: Create an oil spill in a bowl and try to clean it up
Wangari Maathai (born 1940) Kenyan: Germinate beans in a jar and plant a tree
Robin Wall Kimmerer (born 1953) American: Take a closer look at moss
Rodrigo Medellin (born 1957) Mexican: Do an echolocation experiment to see how bats locate their prey
Dana Bergstrom (born 1962) Australian: Use a shoe and a stuffed animal to see how seeds are dispersed
Aparajita Datta (born 1970) Indian: Observe and illustrate insect/plant relationships
Lisa Schultz Moore (born 1971) American: Make prairie plant noodles in a jar
Lesley de Souza (born 1971) Brazilian/American: Build a rain forest terrarium or an aquatic ecosystem
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (born 1980) American: Experiment with red cabbage juice to see how carbon dioxide acidifies the ocean
Jodie Darquea Arteaga (born 1980) Ecuadorian: Go fishing in a bowl to learn about bycatch

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