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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Another discovery book, this one is about--you guessed it--polar lands. Overall, I find the book to be mere waiting room material. But there's nothing wrong with that. The photography and design is very good, though the info supplied is rather lightweight. One nice feature is some craft pages at the end of the book. --J. no reviews | add a review
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Covering an immense range of subjects, this series leads children from a general view to a close-up focus on the details of the topic at hand, and includes easy-to-follow projects, new vocabulary words, and suggestions for interesting places to visit and explore. Polar Lands introduce readers to some of the most remarkable places on Earth. Meet the people who live inside the Arctic Circle and the scientists who work in Antarctica. Discover the incredible diversity of animals and plant life at both poles. Marvel at the auroras, the brief flowering of the tundra, awesome icebergs, and the shifts between the extremes of twenty-four-hour daylight and endless night. Most important, learn why it is so necessary to conserve the unique environments of the poles. No library descriptions found. |
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The media is a mixture of photography and colored pencil.
This book is written in a paragraph and caption form. Instead of it being written in full paragraph form where it is a continuum from one to the next, it is more like short paragraphs explaining the different pictures on the page. Most pages have various pictures of one aspect of the Arctic or Antarctic lands, including animals, icebergs, Inuit people, whales, etc. The book includes a tidbit about the scientific research that has been done or is being done in the polar lands, and at the end it includes a few step-by-step activities, mainly crafts, relating to some of the concepts in the book. There is even a penguin mask template included. This book is a good informational book by the vocabulary and information provided, but it does not cite its research or sources.
This book could be used in a study on climate
This book could be used in a unit about animals who live in the tundra or water. ( )