Let's go rock collecting (Let's-read-and-find-out science) - Softcover

Gans, Roma

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0590281526 ISBN 13: 9780590281522

Publisher: Scholastic, 1998

Synopsis

Key Features Description A Best Children's Book of the Year, 1998, Bank Street College "Kids will immediately be caught by the idea that, "the oldest things you can collect are rocks." This simple geology book goes on to discuss the formation, hardness, types, and uses of rock. The coverage is cursory, yet it is sufficiently engaging to hold the interest of a young audience. Keller's illustrations, line drawings with watercolor washes, work well in showing the cross-sections of earth and volcanoes. Two children appear in many of the scenes, exploring a Roman road, finding fossils, mixing cement, and collecting rocks to store in boxes and egg cartons. A few pages feature... Show More A Best Children's Book of the Year, 1998, Bank Street College "Kids will immediately be caught by the idea that, "the oldest things you can collect are rocks." This simple geology book goes on to discuss the formation, hardness, types, and uses of rock. The coverage is cursory, yet it is sufficiently engaging to hold the interest of a young audience. Keller's illustrations, line drawings with watercolor washes, work well in showing the cross-sections of earth and volcanoes. Two children appear in many of the scenes, exploring a Roman road, finding fossils, mixing cement, and collecting rocks to store in boxes and egg cartons. A few pages feature photographs, allowing more realistic views of various rock types. Another good introductory book from the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out series." - Booklist "This is an excellent book for both boys and girls from about 5 to 10 years of age. These are the early collecting years, and rocks and minerals can be found almost anywhere. It explains, in simple terms, the basic varieties of rocks and why and how they occur. As young collectors soon find, rocks are beauty that you can hold in your hand. They don't wilt; they don't die. This book is a fine way to get kids started in building a rock collection." - Science Books and Films Standards RI.2.7. Explain how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) contribute to and clarify a text. RI.2.7. Explain how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) contribute to and clarify a text. Product Details Item #: NTS28152 ISBN13: 9780590281522 Format: Paperback Book Pages: 32 Grades: 1 Lexile® Measure: 540L Guided Reading Level: GR Level L DRA Level: 20 - 24 ACR Level: 3.7 Key Features Item #: NTS28152 ISBN13: 9780590281522 Format: Paperback Book Pages: 32 Grades: 1 Lexile® Measure: 540L Guided Reading Level: GR Level L DRA Level: 20 - 24 ACR Level: 3.7

About this title

About the Author

The late Roma Gans was a
co-founder of the Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science series.
How Do Birds Find Their Way?,
illustrated by Paul Mirocha, is one of her many titles.

Holly Keller is also the
illustrator of From Tadpole to Frog by Wendy Pfeffer and Who Eats What? by Patricia Lauber. She lives in West Redding, CT.

Holly Keller has illustrated a number of books in the Lets-Read-and-Find-Out Science series, including Be a Friend to Trees. She is also the author and illustrator of many picture books, including Island Baby and Horace.

Ms. Keller lives in West Redding, Connecticut.

From School Library Journal

PreSchool-Grade 3. More than just the title has been changed in this updated edition of Gans's Rock Collecting (Crowell, 1984). The topics are the same?basic rock formation; the characteristics of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks; the uses of rocks in the past (Roman roads, Egyptian pyramids) and the present (cement); and, finally, a bit about rock collecting. The excellent diagrams, full-color photographs of specimens, and minor textual changes clarify the concepts (for example, Mohs' scale of hardness) and extend the presentation. Gans barely introduces collecting rocks in the field and organizing and storing them, but the pair of youngsters featured in Keller's brightly colored illustrations certainly convey the joys of being a rock hound.?Carolyn Angus, The Claremont Graduate School, CA
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Edition details

• Publisher: Scholastic
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0590281526
• ISBN 13: 9780590281522
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 31