Product Description

Kids will love this irresistible learning playground filled with skill-building and a hands-on way of learning science. A Parents' Choice Silver Honor Award winner, this title is in full-color throughout offering boatloads of cool science facts about our underwater world.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #115944 in Books
• Published on: 2006-11-20
• Released on: 2006-09-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 128 pages

From School Library Journal
Grade 3-5-Written in jaunty prose and illustrated with numerous humorous cartoons, this book offers children a hands-on introduction to the mysteries of the watery world. Six sections investigate general oceanic principles, waves and currents, shorelines and tide pools, the ocean floor, marine life, and ocean conservation. Each chapter is divided into mini-lessons that feature a variety of activities. Covering concepts that range from the water cycle and seawater salinity to discovering how a penguin's coloring protects it and baleen catches krill, the experiments are easily re-created using readily available materials. This worthy purchase crosses disciplines to include ecology, math, biology, social studies, and art. Paul Fleisher's Our Oceans (Millbrook, 1995) also features experiments and activities but is written in a slightly more technical style than Littlefield's title. Both books deserve a place in most science collections.
Lynda Ritterman, Atco Elementary School, Waterford, NJ
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
Gr. 3-5. Teachers and students will discover much useful material in this upbeat entry in the Kids Can series. The book begins with an overview of the water cycle, the ocean's composition, and Earth's ratio of water to land. Subsequent sections explore waves and currents; life in the ocean, including a chart of the ocean's animal kingdom by phylum and class; and conservation issues. The text's chirpy tone occasionally gets in the way of the facts (the too-breezy introduction to the water cycle is a good example), but activities that illustrate the concepts--how blubber works and how to clean up an oil spill, for example--are mostly creative, illuminating, and easy to follow. Lighthearted cartoon art adds to the appeal of this fact-packed title. Use this as a practical adjunct to Walter Wick's A Drop of Water (1997), a simpler and more beautifully illustrated introduction to water's properties. Gillian Engberg
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From the Publisher
Parents' Choice Silver Honor Award (2003)

Customer Reviews

Easy to do with simple supplies!!!!
This book looks awesome. I bought it to use as part of an ocean studies year with my second grader. Full of great information as well as great experiments that you can easily do at home. All the supplies are things you have or are easily attainable. The experiments are not to complicated but fun enough to hold interest. Very fun! We also ordered the Sea puzzles companion book also by Cindy.

Awesome Book
I think this book would be great for anyone. The activities are very creative and fun. This would be great for teachers!

Awesome Ocean Science
The activities are easy and fun. I love the pictures in this book too.