{"id":2659,"date":"2010-04-07T17:55:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T22:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/2659"},"modified":"2010-04-07T17:55:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T22:55:13","slug":"teaching-earth-science-with-childrens-literature-our-patchwork-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2010\/04\/07\/teaching-earth-science-with-childrens-literature-our-patchwork-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Earth Science with Children’s Literature: Our Patchwork Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“No one knows for sure what the future will hold, but we do know that tectonic plates will continue to influence us, along with every other creature.”<\/p>\n

Our Patchwork Planet<\/a>, by Helen Roney Sattler, is an oversize book that reads as a 5th grade text-book\u00a0 on tectonic plates and the Earth’s layers. The first few chapters feature many different world maps that illustrate the plates and their movement,\u00a0 as well as diagrams of the Earth’s layers. The authors follow these with chapters on continent formation, earthquakes and volcanoes, and ends with a look into the future of Earth’s formation.<\/p>\n

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\nThe book would be a good resource for covering concepts and vocabulary dealing with tectonic plates, earthquakes and volcanoes, and the basic structure of the earth’s interior (5.7c,d).\u00a0 The vocabulary the students need to know (lithosphere, slip fault) is presented in the text and visually, while the non-buzzword word choice is not too challenging, making the book something a teacher could read aloud to 4th graders.<\/p>\n

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