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Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed The Seas (2012)

by Molly Bang(Favorite Author)

4.08 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0545273226 (ISBN13: 9780545273220)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

The Blue Sky Press

review 1: Amazing things can happen when an award-winning artist collaborates with a respected subject-specialist. Once again this team gives readers a visual and scientific treat. Ocean food chains have never been seen like this before and readers will never underestimate the role of phytoplankton in it. The authors steer clear of a heavy-handed ecological lesson but their notes at the end provide further detail on specific creatures and aspects of the topic that were avoided or brushed over. These end notes will take readers back for another look and then send them off for more information on a fascinating and vital topic.Bang's illustrations use a limited palette of mostly blue and yellow but the results are stunning and shimmer on the page like water reflecting the sunl... moreight.
review 2: a non-fiction book about how the sun powers the ocean and the earth and the life cycle. This would be a book that I would most definitely use for a life science lesson for a fourth through sixth grade students. It would be a grade add-on for the text book or an additional learning tool for those students who might be struggling with the subject area. The text in the book is written in simple terms so it is very easy to understand and it correlates directly with the pictures that the students are looking at. There is a section at the back of the book that would be a great reference source for students to take notes from or I can plan an activity from where I have the students break into groups and make charts of how the sun powers the earth and oceans. less

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