"Draw a realistic-looking fossil like paleontologist Mary Anning did and make a plaster cast of it; or make your own terrarium like Doctor Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward to study plants and insects. This title gives readers both an understanding of the properties of living things and the skills to investigate great discoveries and works. Exciting and easy-to-understand experiments encourage budding scientists, inventors, engineers, and artists to stand on the shoulders of the curious and creative people who came before them."-- Provided by publisher.

Understanding living things -- Miniature plant worldscience: plant life, ecosystems, water cycle -- Fast flowers science: flowering plants, photography -- Natural tie-dye science: plant pigments -- Close-up creepy crawlies science: entomology -- Animal flick book science: animal movement, animation -- Weave a web science: spider webs -- Hear your heart science: human body and heart, sound science -- Body copy science: human body, casting materials -- Building blocks of life science: genes and DNA -- Fabulous fossils science: fossil formation, animal skeletons.