Field Notebooks

<p>Put scientists out in the field-where they observe and learn from their subjects-and exciting things happen. Join thirteen American scientists as they watch sleeping hippos avoid cactus thorns hide snakes under their skirts make jokes and draw elephants termites or squid.</p><p> </p><p>Drawing from the original journals of scientists kids will learn about descriptive informative humorous expository writings. Scientists use notebooks to summarize data draw maps or draw specimen. Represented are scientists studying birds cactus zoo keeping human diseases termites mollusks fish grasses Mayan ruins Chinese plants and animals taxidermy and peanuts. Kids will be inspired to create their own field notebooks.</p><p><br></p>