Browsing: Nature Studies

There is a 100 year-old hero living in the deep blue sea of the Pacific Northwest. She is a 7,000-pound great grandmother and an awesome athlete. Meet Granny, an orca (or killer whale), the hero portrayed by a whale expert in a new children’s picture book, Granny’s Clan: A Tale of Wild Orcas.

It takes a special talent—and a particular ability to remember how young children think—to convey scientific concepts about the natural world to a young audience. Biodiversity? Adaptation? I’d rather play! But a new picture book, Nature’s Patchwork Quilt: Understanding Habitats, does it so gracefully that teachers and parents will find teaching science a pleasure.