This book introduces students to fossils using detailed photographs and kid-friendly text. Fossils also helps students get more familiar with the concept of geology.
2. Figuring Out Fossils by Sally M. Walker
This book reviews how water, sediment, and pressure have worked together over time to preserve the shape of things that lived millions of years ago. Bright illustrations give examples of some amazing fossils.
3. Paleontology: The Study of Prehistoric Life by Susan Heinrichs Gray
This book shows readers actually how deep paleontologists dig to discover fossils and remains, as well as how they use them to learn more about the animals and plants that once inhabited Earth.
4. Archaeologists Dig for Clues by Kate Duke
In this book, the children act as detectives and try to figure out what was living near their dig site long ago. It also explains what scientists are looking for while excavating, how they find it, and what their discoveries reveal.
5. Digging Up Dinosaurs by Aliki
Digging Up Dinosaurs talks about how no one knew dinosaurs existed until they started finding large bones, teeth, and footprints that had turned to stone(fossils) in the ground. It reviews how experts work together to dig dinosaur fossils out of the ground very carefully, then put the skeletons together again inside museums, to look just like the dinosaurs that lived many eras ago.
6. Our Solar System by Semour Simon
This book takes readers on a quick trip through the solar system using real life photographs from NASA. Our Solar System also includes facts about moons, comets and meteors.
7. The Brain: Our Nervous System by Seymour Simon
This book from Seymour Simon talks about the exciting parts of the brain and the nervous system. It includes large color illustrations(great for younger readers) that show the fascinating areas of the human brain, even going as far as to use a positron computed tomography (PCT) photo to show visual stimulation levels when eyes are open versus when eyes are closed. So cool!
8. Physics: Why Matter Matters! by Dan Green
This fun book covers the concept of gravity all the way to the theory of relativity. It provides excellent visual interpretations of complex concepts and it makes learning physics a whole lot easier for young students.
9. The Rainforest Grew All Around by Susan K. Mitchell
This captivating book is a four-time 2008 IRA Teachers' Choice Award winner. It introduces creatures that inhabit the Amazon rainforest. The text is adapted with the use of the song "The Green Grass Grew All Around. The Rainforest Grew All Around will have readers usung their imagination and imagery skills from beginning to end!
10. Who Eats What? Food Chains and Food Webs by Patricia Lauber
This book explains the concept of a food chain and how humans, plants, and animals are ecologically linked, as well as the detrimental effects that can occur if a link is missing.
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