Frost, Helen
Summary: When you are outside on a summer's day, have you ever seen fine powder on a flower or floating on the breeze? That's pollen, almost invisible, waiting for the only thing it needs -- a ride on the wind, or a wing, or a feather. And it's the pollinators, small and mighty, who hold the world together with their work.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FROLondon, Martha
Summary: This book looks at how pollinators make the world a better place, as well as the threats they face and how people can protect them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 571.8642 LONWaldron, Melanie
Summary: "Seeds and fruits carry out vital jobs for all flowering plants. New plants are created from seeds and fruits help to protect and spread those seeds. This book provides readers with a complete and comprehensive understanding of the role of seeds and fruit, their structure and how they are brilliantly designed to do these jobs. Clear diagrams, engaging text, and stunning photographs are used to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Library 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 580 WALSummary: In this visually dazzling TEDTalk presentation, Jonathan Drori shows the extraordinary ways that flowering plants - over a quarter-million species - have evolved to attract insects to spread pollen. Some flowers grow landing strips to guide the bugs in, or build ingenious, elaborate traps, while others actually deceive by mimicking an insect in heat. Using gorgeous visuals including electron...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: This program tours a greenhouse to describe the four main classifications of plants, and their structure and reproduction.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: What gave Charles Darwin the confidence to finally make his radical ideas on evolution public? Presented by well-known science interpreter Jim Doherty, this program explores Darwin's research during the years leading up to his publication of On the Origin of Species. Doherty explains and reconstructs several experiments that Darwin undertook on the grounds of his English estate. These include...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Do the world's rainforests contain a cure for cancer and AIDS? This intriguing program travels to Jakarta, Surabaya, and the jungles of Kalimantan to investigate the preparation and use of natural remedies to combat illnesses such as skin fungus, malaria, and even AIDS. But logging continues unabated, even as ethnobiologists from the National Cancer Institute and the Harvard Medical School...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: While acknowledging the achievements of the pharmaceutical industry, this program offers an alternative perspective on the production of medicines, emphasizing the use of plants and herbs instead of synthetic compounds. Beginning with a historical overview of plant remedies-including evidence of sophisticated herbalism in ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Arab cultures-the video describes how...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Surveying the vast biodiversity of the medicinal plant world, this program examines the challenges facing countries rich in such natural resources. The video presents interviews with numerous alternative health experts-including Dr. Jean-Pierre Willem, renowned surgeon, ethnologist, and the last field assistant of Dr. Albert Schweitzer-and documents their knowledge in a wide range of herbal and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Many critics of "Big Pharma" see a pattern of exploitation in the industry's dealings with the developing world. This program identifies new ways for drug manufacturers to operate globally, promoting increased cooperation with local producers of traditional, plant-based medicines. Recognizing that worldwide demand for alternative medicine may create new producer countries, the program visits...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program details the structure, germination, growth, and response of seeds using greenhouse examples.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Today his name is closely associated with human evolution. Why, then, was Charles Darwin such a tireless observer of plants? This program illustrates Darwin's quest to further support his assertions in On the Origin of Species using the familiar surroundings of his garden. Science interpreter Jim Doherty guides viewers through Darwin's studies of insect-eating plants, including the common...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: How do humans influence changes in other species? Has Homo sapiens itself stopped evolving? This program explores natural selection as an ongoing phenomenon, showing how evolutionary processes continue to shape the future of all life on Earth. Exploring the competition for resources, territory, and mates that occurs in any ecosystem, the video illustrates how species differentiation takes...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This Science Screen Report studies the Wollemi Pine, its 100-million-year history, and the methods used to protect and sustain it. Describing the tree's physical characteristics, its unusual way of propagating, and the medically valuable fungi that grow on its leaves and stems, the program explains how this living organism closely resembles fossils of long-extinct species, and how seed...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Senker, Cath
Summary: "This interesting book about competitive vegetable contests teaches readers about plant parts and plant reproduction."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Raintree 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 575 SENSummary: From selective breeding in agriculture to animal cloning and the production of recombinant proteins, science continues to develop ways to modify the genetic code. This program spotlights the basic tools and techniques for manipulating DNA and how these are also used to investigate genetic functions. Viewers will learn about the coding and non-coding sections of DNA; the basics of PCR or the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Public controversy surrounding cloning and genetic modification increases with each new development in the field. Illustrating concepts at the heart of the debate, this program shows how biotechnology now drives large-scale agriculture through genetic engineering and sophisticated selective breeding. Outlining ways in which humans have indirectly modified plants and animals since the dawn of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Making plentiful use of animation, this comprehensive video clip library of 32 two-to-three-minute segments brings plant biology to life! Visual learners will particularly benefit from the intricate processes and key botanical concepts illustrated in each self-contained video. A versatile teaching tool, Plant Biology is also an excellent student research resource. Video segments...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: How does geography influence plant types? How does a tree become lumber? Is sap like blood? What, exactly, is a succulent? This collection of ten video clips (1 minute 45 seconds to 2 minutes 15 seconds) answers those questions and others through colorful image slides and animated graphics. Video clips include: Classification of Plants; The Anatomy of Flowering Plants; Trees; Reproduction of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Maestro, Betsy.
Summary: Describes the life cycle of an apple from its initial appearance as a spring bud to that point in time when it becomes a fully ripe fruit.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1992
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 582.0166 MAECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LETMaestro, Betsy.
Summary: Describes the life cycle of an apple from its initial appearance as a spring bud to that point in time when it becomes a fully ripe fruit.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1992
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 581.464 MAEWard, Jennifer
Summary: "Seeds can be big and small, round and pointy, and all sorts of colors. But they all have one thing in common--inside waits a new plant life, waiting to emerge! This lush journey through an entire year follows seeds that bloom in the very beginning of spring, all the way through ones that sprout in winter. This jacketed companion picture book to What Will Hatch? features all kinds of seeds,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 575.6 WARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WARMidthun, Joseph
Summary: "A graphic nonfiction volume that introduces various plant life cycles, including seed plant reproduction, asexual reproduction, cross-pollination, and germination"--Provided by publisher
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, a Scott Fetzer Compnay 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 580 MIDSummary: "A graphic nonfiction volume that introduces various plant life cycles, including seed plant reproduction, asexual reproduction, cross-pollination, and germination"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2014