Garden Squad!

Flowers are delightful to look at, but they also play a critical role in ecosystems around the world. Budding gardeners get a comprehensive look at flowers with this beginner's guide, which comes complete with diagrams, colorful photos, and fact boxes. The age-appropriate text is driven by curricula standards and covers fundamental concepts such as plant life cycles and ecosystems. The text also includes tips for caring for plants and starting a garden at home.

Gardening begins with understanding plant parts, which this text covers in an in-depth yet engaging way. Readers will learn the science and physiology behind seeds, bulbs, and sprouts, and their role in each stage of a plant's life. This text looks at elementary science curricula through the high-interest perspective of hands-on gardening, covering plant life cycles and ecosystems, and more. Readers will be encouraged to get in the garden and handle these important plant components. Age-appropriate language, colorful images, fact boxes, and diagrams make learning about plants and gardening fun.

Good gardeners know how to grow healthy plants. Great gardeners know the secret may be composting, a practice that has skyrocketed in popularity in recent years. Young gardeners will learn the basics of composing with this text, whose hands-on approach to classroom science concepts makes learning fun. This science-rich text covers the basics of decomposition and the impact recycling organic material can have on our world. Readers will also learn about soil makeup, nutrients, humus, and more. Informative diagrams and fact boxes supplement learning.

Vegetables are tasty to eat and fun to grow. Readers are encouraged to get their hands dirty with this book, which offers a comprehensive look at the science of vegetable gardens. Elementary science concepts, such as life cycles and ecosystems, are treated with age-appropriate language and reinforced by colorful images, informative diagrams, and fact boxes. Young gardeners will learn the best practices for growing vegetable gardens and gain an understanding of how growing one's food can impact the world on both an individual and global level.

Gardens are one of nature's busiest ecosystems. Bugs, pests, and plants are the key figures in this unique habitat, and readers are invited to explore the relationships that allow it to grow, thrive, and stand strong against the critters that want to destroy it. This text offers a fresh take on essential science concepts covered in elementary classrooms, using the high-interest topic of gardening to encourage readers to get outside and see, firsthand, science at work in their own backyard. Informative yet engaging diagrams, colorful photographs, and fact boxes support this title's information-rich content.

From the outside, soil may just look like a pile of dirt. Up close, however, it's a complex world of living creatures that helps us grow healthy plants. This guide to soil teaches readers the basics of this fundamental garden component, including microorganisms, nutrients, and soil health and care. The curriculum-driven text also brings in related subjects such as composting and worms to provide a comprehensive learning experience. The text's elementary science content is conveyed through age-appropriate text, diagrams, colorful photographs, and fact boxes.