Loaded with hands-on, kid-friendly projects, Natural History Collector: Hunt, Discover, Learn! is for budding naturalists and nature collectors. This book teaches techniques for cleaning, caring for, and displaying discovered treasures.
Loaded with hands-on, kid-friendly projects, Natural History Collector: Hunt, Discover, Learn! is for budding naturalists and nature collectors. This book teaches techniques for cleaning, caring for, and displaying discovered treasures.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Michael Sanchez is an educator at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque. He became interested in nature, "bugs", seashells, and dinosaurs from a very early age and went on to get a degree in biological anthropology from the University of New Mexico. Mike loves to share his passion for the wonders of nature with people of all ages. His hobbies include collecting seashells, drawing, and scuba diving. He and his wife have two grown children and share their home in Albuquerque with a really big dog named Tripp.
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Introduction Curioser and Curioser Keeping Track of Your Collection Project: How to start and keep a field notebook Storing Your Collection Cataloging Your Collection
1. Collecting Rocks and Minerals What are rocks and what are minerals? Where to look and what to collect How to clean and care for your collection Project: Make a display board Interview with a Budding Scientist Geodes and crystals: Why some rocks get all the bling Project: Grow your own crystals Epsom Salt Crystals Table Salt Crystals
2. Collecting Animal and Bird Tracks Keeping Records in Your Notebook Where to Look Collecting tracks with a camera Tips for photographing tracks Project: Making casts of tracks Casts in soil Casts in snow Make a track album Displaying your collection of tracks
3. Collecting Seashells Meet the mollusks Two familiar types How to build your collection Caring for your collection Project: Turn a pizza box into a collector's shadow box An Interview with collector Tom Eichhorst
4. Collecting Fossils What are fossils? Identifying your fossils How to collect How to clean fossils Displaying and storing your collection can we get photos of these? Keeping records Project: Model magic Collector Mary Anning
5. Collecting Insects The age of insects What defines an insect Identifying insects Where to look Supplies Killing insects Mounting and displaying your collection Project: make a plant and insect display box Caring for your collection What to know about buying insects An interview with Dr. Ayesha Burdett
6. Collecting Plants Start by looking locally How to collect: Part 1 How to collect: Part 2 Preserving your plant collections Pressing and mounting flowers and leaves Project: Pressing plants Project: Mounting dried and pressed plants Drying thicker plants and Leaves Drying delicate flowers Preparing pine cones Organizing your collection
Appendix About the N. M. Museum of Natural History and Science Resources Acknowledgements Index About the Author
Introduction Curioser and Curioser Keeping Track of Your Collection Project: How to start and keep a field notebook Storing Your Collection Cataloging Your Collection
1. Collecting Rocks and Minerals What are rocks and what are minerals? Where to look and what to collect How to clean and care for your collection Project: Make a display board Interview with a Budding Scientist Geodes and crystals: Why some rocks get all the bling Project: Grow your own crystals Epsom Salt Crystals Table Salt Crystals
2. Collecting Animal and Bird Tracks Keeping Records in Your Notebook Where to Look Collecting tracks with a camera Tips for photographing tracks Project: Making casts of tracks Casts in soil Casts in snow Make a track album Displaying your collection of tracks
3. Collecting Seashells Meet the mollusks Two familiar types How to build your collection Caring for your collection Project: Turn a pizza box into a collector's shadow box An Interview with collector Tom Eichhorst
4. Collecting Fossils What are fossils? Identifying your fossils How to collect How to clean fossils Displaying and storing your collection can we get photos of these? Keeping records Project: Model magic Collector Mary Anning
5. Collecting Insects The age of insects What defines an insect Identifying insects Where to look Supplies Killing insects Mounting and displaying your collection Project: make a plant and insect display box Caring for your collection What to know about buying insects An interview with Dr. Ayesha Burdett
6. Collecting Plants Start by looking locally How to collect: Part 1 How to collect: Part 2 Preserving your plant collections Pressing and mounting flowers and leaves Project: Pressing plants Project: Mounting dried and pressed plants Drying thicker plants and Leaves Drying delicate flowers Preparing pine cones Organizing your collection
Appendix About the N. M. Museum of Natural History and Science Resources Acknowledgements Index About the Author
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