Icebergs and Glaciers

I recommend for Upper Elementary Science. Informative but wordy at times.

This book gives information about what glaciers are, what parts of the world they exist in, how they are formed, how they move, and how they affect the world around them. Although it may not look enticing at first glance, containing only text, pictures, and diagrams, the information presented is of high interest, as it explains a quite impressive phenomenon. This book demonstrates providing evidence for scientific claims, such as where metal rods slid over time when inserted into a glacier to show how the glacier as a whole moves. This is a transferable skill students can learn. It also contains some engineering elements in the form of people developing solutions to the problem of not being able to see icebergs while sailing.

This informational book describes the formation, movement, and different types of glaciers and icebergs. The book also has pictures to help guide the reader through the subject they are talking about. As well as how these things actually effect the Earth around them.

This is a very good factual book about icebergs and glaciers, how they are formed, where they occur, and the damage they cause. Depending on what grade I am teaching this could be a great book to show my students. The text gradually gets longer and longer but still has a lot of great images that relate to the text. I can use this book to inform students on what icebergs and glaciers are and how they happen. Non-fiction.

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