The 13-Storey Treehouse (The Treehouse Books) (The Treehouse Series, 1)

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These books can teach your children many lessons in listening, reading, and so much more. They can be used to teach children to evaluate key ideas from the area and come to conclusions. The books are organized into chapters, so you can decide how many chapters to cover per lessons. The Long, Long Life of Trees is written in praise of the physical beauty of trees and traces their cultural meanings. I worked on the principle that if I found something surprising, someone else probably would, too: what might be obvious to a botanist, a forester or local historian can still be a revelation to the rest of us.

Uit de jaarringen kan heel wat meer afgeleid worden, want de dikte van elke jaarring, de samenstelling van vroeg- en laathoutcellen en de aanwezige koolstof14-isotopen in elke jaarring zegt ook wat over de temperatuur en de neerslag van dat jaar. Zo kan de een gemiddelde temperatuur en neerslag van eeuwen terug gereconstrueerd worden. Eerst legt Valerie Trouet haarfijn en heel helder uit hoe ze zelf in de dendrochronologie gerold is. Na haar studie bio-ingenieur in Gent was het een kwestie van kansen zien en ze dankbaar grijpen, van opportuniteiten die zich op het juiste moment aandienen en ook heel hard werken. The characters of Andy and Terry parallel the author, Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton. The books are designed to be happening in real time while the characters are trying to finish the book. They mean the book to be more like a trip to the theatre instead of just reading a story. The book begins with the narrator and fictional depiction of the author, Andy Griffiths, giving an introduction to himself, his friend and illustrator Terry Denton, and their treehouse.

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The story continues with the expanded treehouse with new things to find and explore. There is a trampoline, a chocolate waterfall, a dinosaur petting zoo, and so much more. This time, they have the added benefit of a time machine to help them get their book finished in time. Tate Britain’s winter retrospective demonstrated Paul Nash’s extraordinary and enduring feeling for trees. His autobiography, Outline, works as a companion to his painting career, linking the beech tree in his special childhood place in Kensington Gardens to the mysterious group of beeches silhouetted on the hill at Wittenham Clumps, and then to the devastated, topless trunks in the first world war battlefields of northern France. I took a few notes (which I'll get to), but I didn't like the book quite as much as he did, in part because I was already well-familiar with dendrochronology. And the ebook I read didn't have some of the illustrations he mentions (plus some wonky formatting). You might do better with a paper copy. The story continues with Andy and Terry in their treehouse. They have expanded it to 26-stories, and there are new distractions to keep them from writing subsequent books. They now have a bumper car rink, an antigravity chamber, a Maze of Doom, and many other things. The Maze of Doom is so complicated that no one has made their way out of it. But I learned a lot of stuff. Trouet writes well and doesn't take herself too seriously. This is my favorite kind of popular science book: a working scientist describing her specialty, and doing a first-rate job of it. She was aiming the book at non-specialists and succeeded. The descriptions of her fieldwork were one of the real highlights. Highly recommended.

Look at the title and particularly the subtitle. The subtitle tells you exactly what the book is about! The expanded treehouse just keeps cranking out the fun with a chainsaw juggling area, a carrot launcher, a remembering booth, and so much more. There is even a detective agency equipped with a disguise. The 13-Storey Treehouse is a 2011 book [1] written by author Andy Griffiths and illustrated by Terry Denton, [2] and a stage play based on the book. [3] The story follows Andy and Terry, who are living in a 13-storey treehouse, struggling to finish their book on time among many distractions and their friend Jill, who lives in a house full of animals and often visits them. According to the book, the 13-storey treehouse has "a bowling alley, a see-through swimming pool, a tank full of man-eating sharks, a secret underground laboratory, a vegetable vaporizer and a marshmallow machine that shoots marshmallows into your mouths when it sees that you are hungry". Andy wakes up one morning, and on his way to getting breakfast, he meets Terry, painting a white cat yellow to turn it into a canary, or a "catnary". After being dropped from the treehouse, the cat grows wings and flies away. Andy and Terry are then greeted by their animal-loving friend Jill, who wants to find her pet cat, Silky. It turns out that the cat Terry painted was that exact cat. Andy and Terry try to remain innocent when Jill questions them. Right after Jill leaves, Andy and Terry receive a call via a 3D video phone by their publisher, Mr Big Nose, who is upset that the duo is behind schedule.

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When Andy and Terry began to write their book, a giant gorilla started shaking the tree yelling, “BANANA!” Then a chauffer arrives, informing Terry has won the Barky the Barking Dog drawing competition and gets to meet Barky. But squished by the giant gorilla.As the duo loses hope. 13 flying cats, lead by Silky, began fighting the gorilla. Which was successful. The canaries then lift the gorilla away. The enduring classic of all things arboreal. Evelyn published his marvellous account of England’s trees soon after the Restoration of Charles II, to promote tree-planting and so secure the country’s future supplies of oak timber. In the days before iron and steel, trade, exploration and defence all depended on oak-built ships. What’s appealing about this classic is Evelyn’s infectious enthusiasm and strong opinions about trees. Gabriel Hemery’s recent revisiting, The New Sylva, brings Evelyn up to date and includes beautiful pencil sketches by Sarah Simblet. Help your child build their vocabulary and develop spelling skills with age-appropriate dictionaries from Oxford children's dictionaries. Children's fiction I liked this book. It was somewhat technical but the author did a good job explaining how using tree rings can show events in the past. Most commonly, the dating of events using tree borings and cuttings from logs used in objects is what is done. How the methods work, what the rings look like, and how they are correlated with other artifacts from the past is covered in the first few chapters. The examples come from all over the world, and especially in Arizona where most of her work has been conducted.Trouet has written a fascinating book - not only about how it all works - but also a peek into the life of a dendrochronologist. Perhaps contrary to popular belief, these scientists not just work in labaratoria, but actually go out into the woods, dating trees. Which, I discovered, does not mean they have to cut the tree down, but drill into a tree, which leaves the tree alive and allows them to get a sample. Trouet has worked in wide-ranging places such as Tanzania, Greece, the United States and Siberia. In lava fields, mountain ranges, and tropical jungles. There are four steps involved to get a class discussion going about the series. They should come to the discussion prepared with all necessary materials, then you need to establish rules to drive the discussion. Everyone needs to respond to questions, and then you can draw conclusions from the book. I’m rating the book with three stars. It’s good. I’m glad I read it. The book contains lots of interesting information, but I would have preferred the content to be more structured. The author of this book is a dendrochronologist. Dendrochronologists are scientists who study the rings that appear each year in tree trunks. The tree rings are used as means of calculating the dates when other events occur, for example the eruption of volcanoes, the destruction by hurricanes and earthquakes, the fall of meteorites. The bubonic plague, Angkor Wat, the Aztec and Mayan civilizations are studied and redated using dendrochronology. Dendrochronology’s been used by archeologists for nearly a century. The method pinpoints dates more accurately than carbon dating!

This book seemed right up my alley & she really got my attention in the second chapter when she declared that all the wood in a tree is dead save for the cambium layer just inside the bark which other sources dispute. Most agree that the heartwood is dead even though a tree in good shape has a solid heart. There is a good deal of debate on the transition from sapwood to heartwood & some think the sapwood isn't really dead, but more in a state of very slow growth, almost dormancy. They say that if it wasn't alive, it would decay & couldn't turn into heartwood, much of which is distinctly different in color from sapwood due to collecting minerals since the sapwood is the area through which the majority of the sap rises in the tree. It makes me wonder if we have a good definition of 'dead'. You can test your students on each chapter to gauge their reading comprehension. During discussions, encourage questions about the topic as they go through the story. You can start a discussion about the fantasy aspect of the books by asking if these situations can really happen. This is really popularizing science at its best: 1. It teaches us about a highly relevant topic most of us have never heard off (how tree rings can be used as a data source for environmental and social history) 2. It is very accessible and clearly written 3. It teaches a lot about the scientific process: how to develop hypotheses, how to develop ways to test them, how to deal with data gaps, how to connect the dots between seemingly unrelated topics (and, of course, on the importance of obtaining funds) 4. It is a lively story of someone who almost stumbled into the topic she would devote her live to. At times, it really reads as an adventure story that Indiana Jones would have been jealous of.Blake, Jason (September 23, 2013). "Andy Griffith's 13-Story Treehouse goes to the edge of the ridiculous". Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 12 July 2014. Of course, I cannot comment on the accuracy of the science, but given Prof Trouet's CV, there's no reason to doubt the contents. A doorbell rings, however the duo discovered it was Jill, in which she thought she saw Silky. Andy confessed that it was Silky but Terry turned her into a canary. But Jill was glad and thanks Terry. I had the opportunity to zoom on an author’s interview on the publication date, so I managed to get more information about this book before I read it. That helped give it more depth and context as to what Trouet is like in her work and writing. Klimaatveranderingen zijn van alle tijden, of beter gezegd natuurlijke klimaatveranderingen. Dit weten we o.a. dankzij de dendrochronologie, de studie van jaarringen van zowel levende bomen als dood hout en gefossiliseerd hout. Hiermee kunnen haarfijne chronologieën opgesteld worden tot duizenden jaren terug in de tijd, die ons heel veel leren over klimaatgebeurtenissen en welke impact deze hadden op de geschiedenis en de mens. Aanhoudende droogteperioden hebben bvb. meteen een impact op de landbouw en voedselvoorziening, wat kan leiden tot hongersnoden, economische crisis, politieke oproer, opstanden, oorlogen, epidemieën, pandemieën, enz. Zo zal klimaatverandering geen onbelangrijke rol gespeeld hebben in de ondergang van o.a. de Romeinen en de Maya's.