collection and preservation

Discusses how to collect spiders for observation and how to care for them before releasing them.

An introduction to the methods and materials museum artists use to prepare animals for display in dioramas and exhibits.

Brendan Buckley, a biracial ten-year-old, applies his scientific problem-solving ability and newfound interest in rocks and minerals to connect with his white grandfather, the president of Puyallup Rock Club, and to learn why he and Brendan's mother are estranged.

Provides general information about rocks and minerals and descriptions of a few common types as well as explaining how to create a collection.

A young man has a lifelong love of rock collecting that eventually leads him to work at a science museum.

Briefly introduces various types of dinosaurs whose skeletons and reconstructions are seen in museums and explains how scientists uncover, preserve, and study fossilized dinosaur bones.

Discusses methods of archaeological excavations, ancient civilizations, the history of archaeology, and pioneers in the field.

An identification guide to more than 500 species of fossils from around the world, with more than 1,000 color photographs.

Provides descriptions and annotated photographs of over five hundred fossils, each with a color illustration that shows the fossil as a living animal or plant, and includes range, distribution, and occurrence indicators.

Explains how to start a rock collection and how to recognize igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks.