Collage from Seeds, Leaves and Flowers

Collage from Seeds, Leaves and Flowers
Author: Joan Carver
Publisher: GMC Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre: Botanical specimens
ISBN: 9781861080516

Chapter headings are such as flat collage, raised collage, seed collage, embellishment, embroidery effects, and "fantasies". Includes full sized patterns. "How to" instructions range from the creation of simple bookmarks from pressed flowers to complex Jacobean=style "embroidery" for a large firescreen. There are ideas for greeting cards, decorated gift boxes, napkin rings, and place cards, picture frames, a pincushion, seed pictures, wedding pew ends, Bible markers, and embroidery pictures and designs.

The Ultimate Guide for Student Product Development and Evaluation

The Ultimate Guide for Student Product Development and Evaluation
Author: Frances A. Karnes
Publisher: PRUFROCK PRESS INC.
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2000
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1882664574

Introduce your students to the wonderfully creative products found in The Ultimate Guide for Student Product Development and Evaluation! This book offers a step-by-step introduction to confidently using creative products in your classroom. The authors offer ideas for integrating products into your existing curriculum, ways to help students plan and create their products, and easy and effective evaluation strategies. The book also offers many strategies for making sure that your students' hard work is noticed by other students, parents, and community members. With descriptions and evaluation criteria for more than 45 creative products, from dioramas to scripts and musical performances, the possibilities for displaying your knowledge and ideas through original products are limitless. Of course, what would The Ultimate Guide be without the ultimate student product planner? This reproducible student planner takes your students step-by-step through every phase of the product development process. A sure hit with students who tend to wait until the last minute, the student planner is a perfect cure for the chronic procrastinator. Filled with more than 250 pages of creative product ideas, suggested evaluation methods, and common sense teaching advice, this book promises to bring learning to life in your classroom! Book jacket.

Paper Crafts Workshop

Paper Crafts Workshop
Author: Marie Browning
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2007
Genre: Greeting cards
ISBN: 9781402735080

Crafts involving paper manipulation, like collages, quilling, paper tole, and chigiri-e, to create many projects.

The Art of Vintage Journaling and Collage

The Art of Vintage Journaling and Collage
Author: Maryjo Koch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2011-09
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1592537456

DIVThe Art of Vintage Journaling and Collage is a distinctive guidebook exploring the art of collage and journaling using unique, collected ephemera from antique stores, flea markets, secondhand shops, and even your own home to unlock your creativity. Capture your thoughts in handmade, illustrated travel journals, recipe keepsake books, and nature and garden sketchbooks and create stunning collages to frame or use as note cards and gift tags to share with family and friends. The Art of Vintage Journaling and Collage presents Maryjo and Sunny Koch's gorgeous work from their books, Vintage Collage-Works and Vintage Collage Journals. There are more than 75 different collage project ideas and over 14 complete journal projects. Basic techniques and project details are illustrated through step-by-step photos and a gallery is included at the back of the book containing ready-to-use vintage clip art. All levels of artist or hobbyist will find this an inspirational and invaluable book./div

Our World in Pictures: Trees, Leaves, Flowers & Seeds

Our World in Pictures: Trees, Leaves, Flowers & Seeds
Author: DK
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2019-09-05
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0241425840

From the smallest seeds to the tallest trees, this beautiful children's guide is a must-have for any budding botanist or plant lover. We can't live without plants. We need them for food, shelter, even the air we breathe, yet we know surprisingly little about them. Why do thistles bristle with spines? How do some plants trap and eat insects? Did you know there are trees more than 5,000 years old? Trees, Leaves, Flowers & Seeds explores the mysterious world of plants to find the answers to these and many more questions. This picture-packed encyclopedia shows a wonderful variety of plants, from fantastic ferns to spiky cacti. It explores the diverse habitats of plants, herbs and spices that make our food tasty, and even how astronuats grow plants in space. It also takes a fun, more sideways look at some truly weird and wonderful plants, including leaves that are home to frogs, orchids that look like parrots, and seeds that spin like helicopters. So open this fascinating ebook and find out more about the amazing world of trees, leaves, flowers, and seeds.

Plants Can't Sit Still

Plants Can't Sit Still
Author: Rebecca E. Hirsch
Publisher: Millbrook Press TM
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2022-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1728466776

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Do plants really move? Absolutely! You might be surprised by all ways plants can move. Plants might not pick up their roots and walk away, but they definitely don't sit still! Discover the many ways plants (and their seeds) move. Whether it's a sunflower, a Venus flytrap, or an exotic plant like an exploding cucumber, this fascinating picture book shows just how excitingly active plants really are. "With a doctorate in biology, Hirsch understands her subject, but equally important is her ability to communicate with well-chosen words that make the ideas fun and memorable for children. . . . A new way to see the plants around us."—starred, Booklist "Colorful, exuberant illustrations work impressively with the text. . . . Excellent collaboration produced a winner: graceful, informative, and entertaining."—starred, Kirkus Reviews

A Sensory Approach to the Curriculum

A Sensory Approach to the Curriculum
Author: Judy Davis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136613617

Written by a teacher with many years of experience with pupils with PMLD, this book offers a well-tried approach to delivering the curriculum, with particular emphasis on the core subjects. It aims to complement and supplement existing material and provides a useful resource for busy teachers.

Creating the Multiage Classroom

Creating the Multiage Classroom
Author: Sandra Stone
Publisher: Good Year Books
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2004-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1596470240

From philosophy and rationale to sample lesson plans and evaluation forms, this complete design for the mixed-age primary classroom provides practical answers to teachers', administrators', and parents' questions about planning, implementation, environment, curriculum, management, assessment, and evaluation. Reproducible forms and assessment tools ease use. Grades K-6. Index. Bibliography. Illustrated. Good Year Books. 277 pages.

Creating Contrast with Dark Plants

Creating Contrast with Dark Plants
Author: Freya Martin
Publisher: GMC Publications
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2000
Genre: Gardening
ISBN:

Gardeners through the ages have sought the truly black flower. Now there are many unusual plants within this colour range with which you can achieve dramatic contrasts in your flowerbeds and borders.

In Defense of Plants

In Defense of Plants
Author: Matt Candeias
Publisher: Mango Media Inc.
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2021-03-16
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1642504548

The Study of Plants in a Whole New Light “Matt Candeias succeeds in evoking the wonder of plants with wit and wisdom.” ―James T. Costa, PhD, executive director, Highlands Biological Station and author of Darwin's Backyard #1 New Release in Nature & Ecology, Plants, Botany, Horticulture, Trees, Biological Sciences, and Nature Writing & Essays In his debut book, internationally-recognized blogger and podcaster Matt Candeias celebrates the nature of plants and the extraordinary world of plant organisms. A botanist’s defense. Since his early days of plant restoration, this amateur plant scientist has been enchanted with flora and the greater environmental ecology of the planet. Now, he looks at the study of plants through the lens of his ever-growing houseplant collection. Using gardening, houseplants, and examples of plants around you, In Defense of Plants changes your relationship with the world from the comfort of your windowsill. The ruthless, horny, and wonderful nature of plants. Understand how plants evolve and live on Earth with a never-before-seen look into their daily drama. Inside, Candeias explores the incredible ways plants live, fight, have sex, and conquer new territory. Whether a blossoming botanist or a professional plant scientist, In Defense of Plants is for anyone who sees plants as more than just static backdrops to more charismatic life forms. In this easily accessible introduction to the incredible world of plants, you’ll find: • Fantastic botanical histories and plant symbolism • Passionate stories of flora diversity and scientific names of plant organisms • Personal tales of plantsman discovery through the study of plants If you enjoyed books like The Botany of Desire, What a Plant Knows, or The Soul of an Octopus, then you’ll love In Defense of Plants.