Inside Beaver Lodges

Beavers are nature’s engineers, and their industriousness begins at home! These busy animals work tirelessly to create elaborate lodges. Though they’re important sites of food storage, safety, and raising kits, beaver homes also create and sustain ecosystems. This book, which was written to support elementary science curricula, allows readers to explore important science concepts, including habitat welfare and relationships in the natural world. Readers will learn about beavers’ behavior, appearance, survival tactics, and their hardworking spirit. Colorful images, fact boxes, and diagrams offer opportunities for additional learning.

"Full-color photographs and simple text describe beaver lodges"--Provided by publisher.

Building a beaver lodge takes a lot of work. Learn about the many steps involved and why beavers have earned the idiom "as busy as a beaver." This fun and informative STEAM book makes it easy for parents and teachers to introduce STEAM to their youngest learners. Created in collaboration with Smithsonian, this book uses real-world examples to make STEAM topics easier to understand. It features an age-appropriate STEAM activity that is perfect for makerspaces and introduces kindergartners to the steps of the engineering design process. It helps beginning readers learn to read and is ideal for kindergarten students or ages 4-6.

Explore the remarkable homes built by animal architects! Beavers create complex structures to meet their needs, just like people do. Each beaver family builds a dam in a river or creek in order to make a pond. The furry engineers then build a lodge out of branches, logs, and mud in the middle of the pond. They stay safe and warm in a large room above the water in their lodge. Jaw-dropping photos, a habitat map, and fascinating information will captivate young readers as they learn about these truly spectacular animal towns.

Beavers are nature’s engineers, and their industriousness begins at home! These busy animals work tirelessly to create elaborate lodges. Though they’re important sites of food storage, safety, and raising kits, beaver homes also create and sustain ecosystems. This book, which was written to support elementary science curricula, allows readers to explore important science concepts, including habitat welfare and relationships in the natural world. Readers will learn about beavers’ behavior, appearance, survival tactics, and their hardworking spirit. Colorful images, fact boxes, and diagrams offer opportunities for additional learning.

Introduces the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the North American beaver.

Presents an overview of the physical characteristics and habits of beavers and how and where they make their homes.

Our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America's lakes and rivers. Goldfarb shares the powerful story about one of the world's most influential species. He explains how North America was colonized, how our landscapes have changed over the centuries, and how beavers can help us fight drought, flooding, wildfire, extinction, and the ravages of climate change. -- adapted from jacket