Why settle for less? Utilize educational content tailor-made for your part of the country, and introduce children to nature in the Midwest.
National workbooks are great—but regional content is even better! The Midwest encompasses 12 states, and it features four distinct seasons. Focus on the habitats, plants, and animals found here.
Written by Brett Ortler, a naturalist from the region, the Backyard Science & Discovery Workbook: Midwest does what other workbooks can’t: It gets specific about climate, geography, state symbols, weather, and especially birds, fungi, insects, minerals, trees, wildflowers, and so much more. With over 20 simple, fun introductions to scientific subjects—like astronomy and geology—it gets children excited about nature in their own backyard and teaches them to love and protect the great outdoors. More than a dozen activities help kids to make hypotheses, experiment, and observe. The 19 hands-on science projects—such as raising native caterpillars, making mushroom spore prints, and attracting moths with an ultraviolet light—put students in control of their own learning!
You never know what your children will uncover in their outdoor classroom. Every day is a little treasure hunt. If they keep good records and share what they find, their observations can even help scientists learn more about nature in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. So get the Backyard Science & Discovery Workbook: Midwest, and get started on a lifetime of discovery.
Regional workbooks are better:
This is Book 3 in the Nature Science Workbooks for Kids Series. See all Nature Science Workbooks for Kids books here.
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Brett Ortler is an editor at Adventure Publications. He is the author of such books as The Fireflies Book and The Mosquito Book. His essays, poems and other work appear widely, including in Salon, The Good Men Project, The Nervous Breakdown, Living Ready and in a number of other venues in print and online. He lives in Isanti, MN, with his wife and their youn
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