Resources for Watch Them Grow: The Fascinating Science of Animal Beginnings

Free Downloadable Discussion and Activities Guide

BookBreak K-12 Author Talk Series: Would You Read It?

BOOK FEATURES
Author’s Note • Charts/Graphs/Diagrams •
Full-Color Photographs • Further Reading • Glossary • Index •
Photo Captions • Sidebars • Source Notes • Table of Contents

• Vivid photographs and illustrations of animals before birth
• Conversational prose makes scientific content approachable
• Explores different types of gestation, including eggs and live births
• Animal examples are divided into three categories of traits needed for survival–ingestion, senses, and movement–
and gestational outliers such as monotremes (mammals that lay eggs), marsupials, and fathers with wombs
• Aligns with middle school science curriculum related to the growth and development of organisms