Kingdoms of Life - Plants (ENHANCED eBook)

Kingdoms of Life - Plants (ENHANCED eBook)
Author: Gina Hamilton
Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2006-09-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1429116099

Milliken's Kingdoms of Life series is aligned with national science standards and reflects current teaching practices. Each book includes approximately 50 black and white reproducible pages, 12 full-color transparencies (print books) or PowerPoint slides (eBooks), comprehension questions and lab activities for each unit, an answer key, a glossary of bolded terms, a timeline of biological discovery, a laboratory safety guide, as well as a national standards correlation chart. Plants details the anatomy and behavior of this kingdom of multicellular eukaryotic, mostly photosynthetic organisms. They typically lack locomotion or obvious nervous or sensory organs, and possess cellulose cell walls.

Kingdoms of Life - Animals (ENHANCED eBook)

Kingdoms of Life - Animals (ENHANCED eBook)
Author: Gina Hamilton
Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2006-09-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1429116102

Milliken's Kingdoms of Life series is aligned with national science standards and reflects current teaching practices. Each book includes approximately 50 black and white reproducible pages, 12 full-color transparencies (print books) or PowerPoint slides (eBooks), comprehension questions and lab activities for each unit, an answer key, a glossary of bolded terms, a timeline of biological discovery, a laboratory safety guide, as well as a national standards correlation chart. Animals details the anatomy and behavior of the kingdom with the greatest cellular complexity. It includes both many-celled and single-celled organisms (such as protozoans). Animals differ from plants in having cells without cellulose walls, in lacking chlorophyll and the capacity for photosynthesis, in requiring more complex food materials (as proteins), in being organized to a greater degree of complexity, and in having the capacity for spontaneous movement and rapid motor responses to stimulation.

Kingdoms of Life - Monera (ENHANCED eBook)

Kingdoms of Life - Monera (ENHANCED eBook)
Author: Gina Hamilton
Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press
Total Pages: 53
Release: 2006-09-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1429116064

Milliken's Kingdoms of Life series is aligned with national science standards and reflects current teaching practices. Each book includes approximately 50 black and white reproducible pages, 12 full-color transparencies (print books) or PowerPoint slides (eBooks), comprehension questions and lab activities for each unit, an answer key, a glossary of bolded terms, a timeline of biological discovery, a laboratory safety guide, as well as a national standards correlation chart. Monera details the structure and behavior of the smallest and simplest life forms: bacteria and archaea. Bacteria and archaea are one-celled organisms distinguished by their lack of a distinct nucleus and the absence of membrane-bound organs.

Kingdoms of Life - Fungi (ENHANCED eBook)

Kingdoms of Life - Fungi (ENHANCED eBook)
Author: Gina Hamilton
Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2006-09-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1429116080

Milliken's Kingdoms of Life series is aligned with national science standards and reflects current teaching practices. Each book includes approximately 50 black and white reproducible pages, 12 full-color transparencies (print books) or PowerPoint slides (eBooks), comprehension questions and lab activities for each unit, an answer key, a glossary of bolded terms, a timeline of biological discovery, a laboratory safety guide, as well as a national standards correlation chart. Fungi details the anatomy and behavior of eukaryotic organisms which sustain themselves by feeding on (in most cases) dead and decaying organic materials. Some fungi are parasites, and attack and consume living tissues (athlete's foot, for example).

Kingdoms of Life - Protista (ENHANCED eBook)

Kingdoms of Life - Protista (ENHANCED eBook)
Author: Gina Hamilton
Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2006-09-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1429116072

Milliken's Kingdoms of Life series is aligned with national science standards and reflects current teaching practices. Each book includes approximately 50 black and white reproducible pages, 12 full-color transparencies (print books) or PowerPoint slides (eBooks), comprehension questions and lab activities for each unit, an answer key, a glossary of bolded terms, a timeline of biological discovery, a laboratory safety guide, as well as a national standards correlation chart. Protista details the structure and behavior of protists — distinguished from monera principally by being composed of so-called "true cells" (eukaryotes), or cells containing a distinct nucleus. Protists can be either unicellular or multicellular and include most algae and some fungi.

Our Living World (ENHANCED eBook)

Our Living World (ENHANCED eBook)
Author: Edward P. Ortleb
Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1993-09-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1429110821

This book presents a program of basic studies dealing with living organisms. The characteristics of each living kingdom are presented and the diversity among species within the same kingdom is illustrated. Topics include algae, bacteria, fungi, and various species of plants and animals. Each of the twelve teaching units in this book is introduced by a color transparency (print books) or PowerPoint slide (eBooks) that emphasizes the basic concept of the unit and presents questions for discussion. Reproducible student pages provide reinforcement and follow-up activities. The teaching guide offers descriptions of the basic concepts to be presented, background information, suggestions for enrichment activities, and a complete answer key.

Discover! Classification (ENHANCED eBook)

Discover! Classification (ENHANCED eBook)
Author: Delores Boufford
Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2000-09-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1429109408

Activities will help students explore the concept of classification—the arranging of things by like elements. The basis is a simple taxonomy. Some scientific names are briefly introduced and explained. General background information, suggested activities, questions for discussion, and answers are included. Encourage students to keep completed pages in a folder or notebook for further reference and review.

Science in our Environment

Science in our Environment
Author: Shona Bagai
Publisher: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 8179933431

Prickly cacti, leafy ferns, exotic orchids, and sturdy oak trees are all members of the plant kingdom. However, not only do they look different from each other but their habitats are also vastly unlike. As the Green Genius tackles Teri's eager questions, you, too, will find out more about plants and the important role they play in our lives.

Five Kingdoms

Five Kingdoms
Author: Lynn Margulis
Publisher: Henry Holt
Total Pages: 520
Release: 1998
Genre: Biology
ISBN: 9780716730279

An all-inclusive catalogue of the world's living diversity, Five Kingdoms defines and describes the major divisions, or phyla, of nature's five great kingdoms - bacteria, protoctists, animals, fungi, and plants - using a modern classification scheme that is consistent with both the fossil record and molecular data. Generously illustrated and remarkably easy to follow, it not only allows readers to sample the full range of life forms inhabiting our planet but to familiarize themselves with the taxonomic theories by which all organisms' origins and distinctive characteristics are traced and classified.

Wonders of the Plant Kingdom

Wonders of the Plant Kingdom
Author: Wolfgang Stuppy
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2015-02-23
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 022621592X

Compared to the obvious complexity of animals, plants at a glance seem relatively simple in form. But that simplicity is deceptive: the plants around us are the result of millennia of incredible evolutionary adaptations that have allowed them to survive, and thrive, under wildly changing conditions and in remarkably specific ecological niches. Much of this innovation, however, is invisible to the naked eye. With Wonders of the Plant Kingdom, the naked eye gets an unforgettable boost. A stunning collaboration between science and art, this gorgeous book presents hundreds of images of plants taken with a scanning electron microscope and hand-colored by artist Rob Kesseler to reveal the awe-inspiring adaptations all around us. The surface of a peach—with its hairs, or trichomes, and sunken stomata, or breathing pores—emerges from these pages in microscopic detail. The dust-like seeds of the smallest cactus species in the world, the Blossfeldia liliputana—which measures just twelve millimeters fully grown—explode here with form, color, and character, while the flower bud of a kaffir lime, cross-sectioned, reveals the complex of a flower bud with the all-important pistil in the center. Accompanying these extraordinary images are up-to-date explanations of the myriad ways that these plants have ensured their own survival—and, by proxy, our own. Gardeners and science buffs alike will marvel at this wholly new perspective on the world of plant diversity.