Description
Book SynopsisStep up your science knowledge with Step Into Science and discover the science of rocks and soil!
Step Into Science: Rocks and Soil looks at Earth and the rocks that make it up, from its fiery core and volcanoes to limestone cliffs and fossils. With the help of a cast of funny blobby characters, you''ll explore how rocks form and reform over time, and how they change the world around us.
Colourful and quirky illustrations make these core science topics exciting and fresh and encourage interaction with the subject.
Written to support the National Curriculum at Key Stage 2, each title explores key scientific topics through a combination of concise information and fun experiments.
Perfect for readers aged 7+
Titles in the series:
Electricity
Forces & Magnets
Habitats
Light
Plants
Rocks & Soil
Sound
The Body
Trade ReviewPeter manages to bring these pages to life with simple and fluent text ... There are plenty of areas which children will want to find out more about and I can see the book acting as a springboard to further studies * School Librarian *
Explores key scientific topics through a combination of concise information and fun experiments. This combination is ideal to encourage children to make their own investigations and further their own learning through hands-on experience * Parents In Touch *
Table of Contents
- 1: Rocks in space
- 1: Inside the Earth
- 1: Volcanoes
- 1: Igneous rock
- 1: When rocks break up
- 1: Rocks from living things
- 1: Minerals
- 1: Metamorphic rock
- 1: Soil
- 1: Investigating soil
- 1: How fossils form
- 1: Fossils from different ages
- 1: Glossary
- 1: Answers to the activities and questions
- 1: Further information
- 1: Index
