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Scientists get dressed
by Rose, Deborah Lee,
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J 509 ROS
Persnickety Press,, [2019]
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
 
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Presents how the right clothing and gear help scientists do their work in hard to reach places, like the forest canopy and bat caves, while protecting them from hazards like germs, chemicals, and the sun's radiation.

Syndetic Solutions - School Library Journal Review for ISBN Number 9781943978489
Scientists Get Dressed
Scientists Get Dressed
by Rose, Deborah Lee; Watkins, Caroline (Editor); Stumpf, Shan (Designed by)
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Gr 2--4--Ever wonder what kinds of clothing and apparatuses are needed for a volcanologist or a glaciologist? Eighteen different people are introduced with the gear they need to collect data for their scientific studies and protect themselves. Ecologist Bill Moore counts bats and therefore must wear a protective helmet, headlamp, and at times night-vision goggles. Rebecca Tripp, who is pictured using a wheelchair, utilizes a tree-climbing harness to pull herself up to the forest canopy in order to study animals. Volcanologist Jessica Ball wears thick cotton gloves, cotton clothing, a safety helmet, and a respirator. Chemical engineers, astronauts, space engineers, wildlife refuge managers, and biologists are just a few of the jobs covered. Some fold-out pages depict even larger photo spreads. End pages encourage students to be citizen scientists and include additional information about the photos in the book and an "If you were a scientist" questionnaire. VERDICT This book is easy enough to understand for youngsters and provides adequate depth for older students. Librarians should budget to get this title. An excellent resource to introduce STEM careers and teach curious minds about scientists.--Sandra Welzenbach, Villarreal Elementary School, San Antonio

Syndetic Solutions - Kirkus Review for ISBN Number 9781943978489
Scientists Get Dressed
Scientists Get Dressed
by Rose, Deborah Lee; Watkins, Caroline (Editor); Stumpf, Shan (Designed by)
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From muddy waders and ragged work gloves to spacesuits and full-body panda suits, scientists in the field show off their wardrobes.Starting with Mae Jemison on the cover, Rose puts an unusually diverse gallery of researchers on the figurative runway, full-color photos actually showing them at work studying sea turtles and volcanoes, an eclipse, whale sharks, glaciers, and honeybeesnot to mention donning a spacesuit, maneuvering out of a wheelchair to gather tardigrades from a forest canopy, carrying a rescued bald eagle (previously met in the author's Beauty and the Beak, 2017), and doing brain surgery. So where are the white lab coats, you ask? Meet neuroanatomist Marian Diamond, posing in one with a preserved human brain and the elegant hatbox in which she carries it when visiting classes. The narrative, printed in two fonts, with the smaller offering further detail for older readers, is paired to several color photos, often on gatefolds, that mix full-body views with inset close-ups of specimens or gear. Aside from a few group shots the men and women here are introduced by name, and though everyone is generically dubbed a "scientist" in the primary narrative, each specialty is identified at the end. There the author also places review questions and examples of citizen-scientist projects open to young volunteers.An eye-opening catalog of STEM wear. (Nonfiction. 6-8) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

 
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