What is an environment? Why are environments important to animals and people? How do people relate to and use their environment? Discover why and how we care for our environment.
Key concepts: Environment, Sustainability
Australian Curriculum Content Descriptions: The importance of environments to animals and people and different views on how they can be protected.
This book dives in and gives readers a chance to discover many fascinating facts about anglerfish, including their varied physical traits, habitats, food sources, life cycles, and more. It provides an interactive approach to teaching life science, introducing basic concepts and ideas while also providing activities and exercises that engage students in processes and skills that are essential to scientific learning and discovery.
This book takes readers on a journey under the sea to discover the fascinating facts about whale sharks, including physical features, habitat, life cycle, food, and more. Readers are engaged with life science content while improving their critical thinking skills. Photos, captions, and keywords supplement the narrative of this informational text, while additional search tools–including a glossary and an index–help students locate and review important information.
Baby animals come in many shapes and sizes. Some babies look like their parents. Other baby animals need time to grow. Can you match each baby animal to its parent? Fun clues and multiple choice photos will have you puzzling to learn more!
Animals live in many kinds of homes. Some live under the sea. Others live high in the trees. Can you match each animal to its home? Fun clues and multiple choice photos will you have puzzling to learn more!
Discover the amazing ways animals adapt to one of the most extreme regions on Earth. With stunning photographs and fact-filled, easy-to-read text, Desert Animal Adaptations is a perfect nonfiction book for pre-readers and early readers alike.
Discover the amazing ways animals adapt to their marine homes; from the deep dark depths to busy coral reefs. With stunning photographs and fact-filled, easy-to-read text, Ocean Animal Adaptations is a perfect nonfiction book for pre-readers and early readers alike.
Premier’s Reading Challenge lists: South Australia (3-5), Western Australia (3-5)
This book provides an informed, unbiased review of one of Australia’s most topical environmental issues.
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Arachnids are a special group of animals that includes spiders, scorpions, ticks and mites. This book takes a close look at some amazing creatures. Venomous fangs help some of them catch prey and defend themselves. Complex webs and nets are used to catch food and keep their eggs safe. These are just some of the weird, wild and wonderful ways that arachnids survive in the wild.
Penguins, gulls and puffins are all seabirds. Seabirds spend lots of time in the water. Some are great at fishing. Others steal food. Some seabirds fly over water searching for fish. Others can’t fly at all. Seabirds looks at how these weird, wild and wonderful birds survive on land and at sea.
