Just came across some fun links on food chains and animal habitats. We’ve been hearing back about teachers using our Follow That Food Chain books in their classrooms; here are some great games to introduce or reinforce their concepts: Food Chain Game (put the food chain in order) Animal Diet Game introduces the terms “herbivores,” “omnivores,” and [...]
Check it out: The Society of School Librarians International has named our Savannah Food Chain book a Science Grades K-6 Honor Book!
Do you know what an osprey is? They’re birds of prey, like eagles, only a little smaller. (Ospreys hunt in our Follow That Food Chain: A Temperate Forest book.) When the pesticide DDT almost wiped out the bald eagles, it also devasted the osprey population. They’ve been endangered in Wisconsin–but no more! Their numbers have grown [...]
First, the blog reviews: we’ve gotten some nice ones about our Follow That Food Chain series lately, and I realized I’ve neglected to compile them here. SimplyScience blogged about our temperate forest book, saying, “Interactive and entertaining, A Temperate Food Chain provides a fun-filled trek though the forest habitat as it shows specific examples of [...]
The very first animal I wrote about in the Follow That Food Chain series was a black bear. She and her cubs were in the proposal that ended up selling and becoming our habitat series. So I have a special fondness for them. And living in northern Wisconsin, you see black bears. Sometimes in the [...]
So what else can you do with Animoto, my new hobby? Authors–how about using it as a book trailer? Here’s one I pulled together for my Follow That Food Chain series from Lerner. Photos used under Flickr Creative Commons from dpape, Stephen Barnett, chem7, belgianchocolate, kento.ikeda, and antaean. Granted, it’s not as flashy as some [...]