What's That Tree?
The simplest ID guide ever.
Learn more about the beautiful trees around you with this identification guide,
perfect for beginners, featuring over
150 common British and European species.
If you want to know the difference between a Serbian spruce and a silver birch or
how
different trees change through the
seasons then What's that Tree? is the ideal guide for you. Species overviews show you what to look for
where and related
trees are shown side by side for quick comparison and identification.
Clear photography of leaves will help you to directly compare the tree you're
looking
at with those in the guide and
will assist you with specific features of the leaf to help identify the tree. This quick-reference
guide
also includes
information on bark, flowers, and seeds.
The perfect pocket guide for beginners but also a handy reference for the more
seasoned naturalist, What's that Tree?
will help you to become an expert tree-spotter in no time.
Year 1: Plants
Around Us
Plant a seed and watch it grow, go on a nature hunt and identify the
different trees and flowers growing. Find out which trees are deciduous and which are
evergreen.
Year 1: Seasons
Explore outside through nature hunts,
playing outside and painting the weather. Discover how all these activities and more meet the
standards set in the national curriculum and learn more about the world all around us.
Year 2: How
Plants Grow
Discover the lifecycle of plants. Do they need water and sunlight to grow
and thrive? Can celery be turned blue or red through simple experiments to reveal how water
travels through them and their leaves.
Year 3: Investigating Plant Conditions
Throughout this topic you will
learn about the life of plants, looking at how they grow through investigations and
experiments.
Discover how water travels through a plant, how seeds grow and what they need to survive.
Year 3: Seeds and Life
Cycles
This topic looks at six different ways
seeds and their lifecycles are amazing and integral to each other. Go on a seed hunt and then
create a seed bomb. Watch our Seed Dispersal video to learn even more and follow it up with a
fun activity. Get to know the world of seeds with this great topic.
- Publisher: DK Kids
- Format: Hardback
- Print length: 128 pages
- Dimensions: 191 x 100 mm
- Reading age: 6 - 12 years old
- Publication date: 01 Mar 2013
- ISBN: 9781409366553
About DK
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