What in the World Is an Acre? And Other Land & Sea Measurements eBook

by Desirée Bussiere

Overview

This entertaining and educational title helps familiarize young readers with land and sea measurements. From acres, to hectares, to nautical miles, the easy-to-read book offers engaging pictures and simple sentences to illustrate each type of measurement fully. In no time, young readers will be able to use each measurement system for themselves. Fun facts and a quick quiz give young readers additional reading and learning. SandCastle is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781614807476
Publisher:	ABDO Publishing
Publication date:	01/01/2013
Series:	Let's Measure More eBook
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	24
Lexile:	480L (what's this?)
File size:	5 MB
Age Range:	5 - 9 Years

Editorial Reviews

K-Gr 2—These small books cover many different measurements in a concise fashion. Distance, weight, area, volume, time, and metric measurements are discussed. After an introduction, each topic is given a spread; a description is clearly written in a few sentences on the left and an example appears on the right (e.g., "Amelia's dad is a teacher. He orders a gross of pencils."). The color photos are attractive but clearly staged-all the children look like they are in a photo shoot. Each title concludes with a "Fun facts" page, a quiz, and a simple glossary. These books are excellent for their discussion of lesser-known units, such as survey township, gross, eon, grain, league, and cubit, which would even be helpful for students on the older side of the target audience. Valuable introductions for classroom discussion and units about measurements.

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