The Kitchen Pantry Scientist Ecology for Kids

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Title
3. Contents
4. Introduction
5. Lab 1 Alexander von Humboldt (b. 1769) German
   1. Use Blue Ice to Learn about Ocean Currents.
6. Lab 2 Eunice Newton Foote (b. 1819) American
   1. Perform a Greenhouse Gas Experiment by Trapping the Sun’s Energy.
7. Lab 3 Jean-Henri Fabre (b. 1823) French
   1. Build an Insect Habitat to Study Isopod Behavior.
8. Lab 4 Eugenius Warming (b. 1841) Danish
   1. Make a Paper Cactus to See How Cacti Expand When it Rains.
9. Lab 5 William Emerson Ritter (b. 1856) American
   1. Capture Invertebrates in their Natural Habitats.
10. Lab 6 George Washington Carver (b. 1864) American
    1. Grow Beans under Different Soil Conditions.
11. Lab 7 Ed Ricketts (b. 1897) American
    1. Create a Tide Pool in a Plastic Tub.
12. Lab 8 G. Evelyn Hutchinson (b. 1903) English
    1. Use a Plastic Bottle and Nylons to Capture Plankton.
13. Lab 9 Dora Priaulx Henry (b. 1904) American
    1. Fabricate a Moving Model of a Barnacle.
14. Lab 10 Rachel Carson (b. 1907) American
    1. Make a Secchi Disk to Test Water Clarity in a Pond, Lake, or Stream.
15. Lab 11 Eugene Odum (b. 1913) American
    1. Use Quadrat Sampling to Study the Biodiversity of Ecosystems.
16. Lab 12 Akira Miyawaki (b. 1928) Japanese
    1. Plant Chia Seeds to Learn How Trees Protect Soil.
17. Lab 13 E. O. Wilson (b. 1929) American
    1. Make a Sweep Net to Capture Amazing Arthropods.
18. Lab 14 C. S. Holling (b. 1930) Canadian
    1. Make Plaster Casts of Animal Footprints.
19. Lab 15 O’Neil Ray Collins (b. 1931) American
    1. Dissect a Mushroom and Make Prints From the Spores.
20. Lab 16 Sylvia Earle (b. 1935) American
    1. Create an Oil Spill in a Bowl and Try to Clean It Up.
21. Lab 17 Wangari Maathai (b. 1940) Kenyan
    1. Germinate Beans in a Jar and Plant a Tree.
22. Lab 18 Robin Wall Kimmerer (b. 1953) American
    1. Take a Closer Look at Moss.
23. Lab 19 Rodrigo Medellín (b. 1957) Mexican
    1. Do an Echolocation Experiment to See How Bats Locate Their Prey.
24. Lab 20 Dana Bergstrom (b. 1962) Australian
    1. Use a Shoe and a Stuffed Animal to See How Seeds are Dispersed.
25. Lab 21 Aparajita Datta (b. 1970) Indian
    1. Observe and Illustrate Insect/Plant Relationships.
26. Lab 22 Lisa Schulte Moore (b. 1971) American
    1. Make Prairie Plant Models in a Jar.
27. Lab 23 Lesley de Souza (b. 1977) Brazilian/American
    1. Build a Rain Forest Terrarium or an Aquatic Ecosystem.
28. Lab 24 Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (b. 1980) American
    1. Experiment with Red Cabbage Juice to See How Carbon Dioxide Acidifies the Ocean.
29. Lab 25 Jodie Darquea Arteaga (b. 1980) Ecuadorian
    1. Go Fishing in a Bowl to Learn About Bycatch.
30. Acknowledgments
31. About the Author
32. About the Photographer
33. About the Illustrator
34. Index
35. Copyright