Natural History Collector: Hunt, Discover, Learn!
Expert Tips on how to care for and display your collections and turn your room into a cabinet of curiosities
by Michael Sanchez
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Pub Date 19 Dec 2017 | Archive Date 12 Jan 2018
Quarto Publishing Group – Quarry | Quarry Books
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Description
Coming home from the beach or a walk in the woods with a fine collection of rocks, shells, pine cones, and seed pods is easy. The trick is knowing what to do with them once you get them back to your room. The real fun comes from identifying, preserving, and displaying your treasures!
Natural History Collector: Hunt, Discover, Learn! is full of hands-on, kid-friendly projects for the budding naturalist. The opening chapter introduces kids to different ways of creating their personal field guides for keeping track of what they see, when and where they see it, and what makes it interesting. They’ll move on to techniques for cleaning and caringfor treasures, such as drying flowers, pressing leaves, and desalinizing rocks and shells.
The book’s drawings and photographs will help kids discover what to look for when they examine feathers, seeds, and minerals (and recognize the difference between sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic). Extra projects focus on display; making shadow boxes, creating collectors’ cases from egg cartons and candy boxes, labeling, hanging, and mounting collections.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781631593673 |
| PRICE | US$24.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 128 |
Featured Reviews
Reviewer 446033
Practical and useful activities that can be used with children from 5-11 years old. The book provides tools and resources to recreate or create activities for children. This activities can be used for summer camp, elementary school or home school.
Jennifer K, Reviewer
I did receive an ebook from NetGalley which does not change my review. :)
Loved this! This is excellent for the little budding natural history fiend in your life. I would have absolutely loved this as a kid collecting anything weird I could find out in nature.
This is definitely for kids, if you are looking for advanced techniques this is not your book. This is pretty comprehensive though including instructions for things like cleaning fossils and pinning insects and even pressing flowers. There are some fun crafty instructions as well for kid nature projects. Some of these you will have already seen before if you've spent any time planning nature activities for kids, however, there were a couple new ones. This book doesn't keep it too simple either which I really appreciated.
The only thing that bugged (catch that?.. lol) me was when the insect discussion was going on and cicadas were stated not to have a larval/pupal stage which is technically true, but, confusing to those of us accustomed to gathering the cast skins. Yeah, turns out that's from a nymph. What's the difference? The nymph does not pupate and primarily differs from the adult in just that it doesn't have wings or functional reproductive organs. So, that was cool, obviously author was correct and I got the opportunity to correct myself.. lol I've been guilty of using larva and nymph interchangeably. Now I get it.
This is a fun book and I will likely pick it up for my 7 year old. We already work at micro fossils and it would be fun to add more to our activities.
Rebecca S, Librarian
My 3 year old son is showing interest in collecting rocks and is growing more curious about the natural world around home, so this book really helped me with ideas for him and he loved looking at the pictures with me. This will be a good resource for when he’s older as well.
