Fountains of Life: The Story of Deep Sea Vents (First Books - Ecosystems)

By Elizabeth Tayntor Gowell

Book Overview

The books in the highly praised First Books series provide basic facts on subjects in the social studies, the sciences, sports, and practical and fine arts. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0531159086
• ISBN13: 9780531159088
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Franklin Watts
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.3" x 7.0"
• Age Range: 9 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 6

Customer Reviews

Chemosynthesis, thriving life without the sun.

This book is fascinating. The information is new and exciting. Thriving life with out photosynthesis. I think this book would be fun to use as a classroom project. The book is broken into five chapters. Each chapter assigned as a report to be orally presented would met the guidelines for Standard 2 of the Colorado state reading standards. Because this information is continually being updated, the use of electronic media would enhance this greatly. This is also a great one for meeting science standard 3.1.4 as well as a great underwater geography lesson. The book is a bit much for a third or forth grader to tackle all alone, because of the technical words necessary to tell about the exciting new life living around deep-sea vents and how they were formed. Yet worth the effort. There is a helpful glossary in the back of the book. Good luck learning about chemosynthesis.