Why are rivers and streams important to life on Earth?
Did you know that without rivers, human life might not have developed as
it did? We might be a very difference species if it wasn't for rivers,
as would the other plants and animals who depends on rivers and streams
for food, transportation, water, and power!
In Rivers and Streams! With 25 Science Projects for Kids, readers
ages 7 to 10 dive in and discover how rivers change the shape of the
land while plants, animals, and humans change the shape of rivers.
Through fun facts, engaging content, and essential questions, kids learn
about the vital role that rivers and streams have played in human
history and explore the ways rivers and streams might affect our future.
Science experiments that promote critical thinking and creative problem
solving encourage kids to make their own discoveries about the waterways
they might pass every day.
Talking about earth science means talking about climate change. How are
rivers affected by our changing climate, and what can we do to help
rivers and streams stay healthy in their changing environment? Rivers
and Streams! encourages kids to think creatively as they search for
actionable solutions to the problems faced by today's waterways.
Student-led STEAM projects that promote the use of the scientific
method, such as investigating a local watershed, looking for life in
water samples, modeling how insects walk on water, and making a water
wheel, let kids get their hands wet and their minds working as they make
real-life connections to the text. Fun facts, engaging illustrations,
links to primary sources, timeline, glossary, and resources make this a
terrific introduction to one of earth's most important resources--rivers
and streams!
Rivers and Streams! is part of a set of four Explore Waterways books
from Nomad Press. In the Explore Waterways set, readers ages 7 to 10
learn about the waterways of our world, including the what, where, how,
and who about the origination, content, and aquatic life that water
contains. Through science-minded STEAM projects and experiments that
encourage readers to think of waterways as part of a larger ecosystem,
kids develop critical and creative thinking skills about the role
waterways play in our world.
Titles in the Explore Waterways set include Marshes and Swamps!
With 25 Science Projects for Kids; Lakes and Ponds! With 25 Science
Projects for Kids; Oceans and Seas! With 25 Science Projects for
Kids; and Rivers and Streams! With 25 Science Projects for Kids.
Nomad Press books in the Explore Your World series for children ages
7-10 integrate content with participation. Common Core State Standards,
the Next Generation Science Standards, and STEM Education all place
project-based learning as key building blocks in education. Combining
content with inquiry-based projects stimulates learning and makes it
active and alive. Nomad's unique approach simultaneously grounds kids in
factual knowledge while allowing them the space to be curious, creative,
and critical thinkers.
