Trees From Helicopters

by: Richard Konicek-Moran

This story is aimed at promoting not only inquiry into the germination of tree seeds but seeing trees as typical flowering plants, also known as angiosperms. There is also ample opportunity to take an excursion into fruits and seeds and the germination of seeds.

Grade Levels

Elementary

Topics

Inquiry Life Science Literacy Phenomena

Details

Type Book ChapterPub Date 4/1/2008Stock # PB220X_13

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Steve (St. Johns, FL)
Steve (St. Johns, FL)

Great for Elementary

This mystery is well laid out for elementary students. It is engaging and informative. The author presented some ideas for using it with middle grades students which were pretty good.

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