A World in a Drop of Water - Exploring With a Microscope

A World in a Drop of Water - Exploring With a Microscope by Alvin Silverstein and Virginia Silverstein

Within every drop of pond water lurks an invisible world, alive with an amazing variety of microscopic animals. And with the help of this book and a microscope, you can bring these tiny creatures into focus and discover the ways in which they live.

You'll trace the path of a blob-like amoeba as it stretches out its pseudipods to hunt and gobble up its prey, and you'll see the life-or-death water ballet of a slipper-shaped paramecium as it swims away from its mortal enemy, the pinchusion-shaped suctorian. You'll also meet the euglena, classified as both plant and animal: the rotifer, a creature with two wheels of whirling hairlike projections that help it move by squeezing in and out like an accordion; and the incredible hydra, a fearsome bully that constantly threatens other small animals with its crown of grasping tentacles.

With this book, your key to the world of single-celled organisms, you'll learn fascinating lessons about how these strange animals eat, reproduce, and defend themselves. Enter their microscopic domain and see for yourself!

37 illustrations.



Book Details:

• Number of Pages: 64
• Book Size: 6-3/8" x 9"
• Book Type: Paperback
• Recommended Ages: 8 and up
• ISBN 10: 0486403815
• ISBN 13: 978-0486403816

If you like this book, make sure to check out our Life in a Bucket of Soil, by the same authors.

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This book introduces children to the microscopic world. The projects are easy to do and the instructions are clear and concise. What will your child find in a drop of water?