Pioneering Ocean Depths [Library Binding]

Sandra Markle (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1995 | Age Level: 9 and up

The vast seas are the last mysterious, unknown places on Earth. New scientific equipment and research are revealing the secrets of the ocean's depths. This book tells of the almost daily discoveries being made by ocean explorers and presents hands-on articles that make these discoveries come alive for young scientists. Color photos.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 4-7?Unnumbered chapters headed by such questions as "How Are Scientists Exploring the Depths?" "What's the Seafloor Like in the Depths?" and "What Are Deep-sea Animals Like?" contain related explanatory information and a relevant experiment in this rather dry look at the world beneath the seas. Each page is illustrated with one or more nondistinctive full-color photograph of scientists at work, ships and underwater vessels, and the animal and plant life found at various depths. The experiments are performed by the same three children throughout, two girls and one boy, and their pleasure at learning is shown on their faces. Some of these projects become rather involved, especially one that utilizes layers of lime and cherry Jell-O, and creating a current in a pie plate of salty water using batteries and a flashlight bulb. Colorful drawings show such features as a salt dome under sediment layers and how all the oceans are one body of water. The index leads to various topics within the narrative but not to the experiments.?Frances E. Millhouser, Reston Regional Library, VA
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Library Binding: 48 pages
• Publisher: Atheneum (May 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0689318235
• ISBN-13: 978-0689318238
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 8.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,427,797 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

SANDRA MARKLE

Sandra Markle is the author of more than 200 books for children, such as A Mother's Journey (Charlesbridge, 2006), How Many Baby Pandas (Walker, 2009), The Case of the Vanishing Golden Frogs (Millbrook, 2011), Butterfly Tree (Peachtree Publishing, 2011). She has won numerous awards for this work, including Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book, Cooperative Children's Book Center Choices, NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book, SB& F finalist, John Burroughs List of Nature Books for Young Readers, Junior Library Guild Selection, Orbis Pictus Recommended Book, Charlotte Zolotow Award, and MORE.
She was honoured with the title of "Best of Children's Non-Fiction" Georgia Author Of The Year award five times and was named one of 1999's Women of the Year by Women in Technology International for her contributions to science and technology.

In addition to her books, Sandra Markle has developed science specials for CNN and PBS. She is also noted for developing On-Line Expedition: Antarctica, one of the first on-line educational programs and continued adding further on-line reports from Antarctica while working on book projects in 1996 and 1999 as a grantee for the National Science Foundation's Artists and Writers Program.

Reviewers have heaped praise on Markle's books, including:
Outside and Inside Bats "The author presents a particularly felicitous accord of words and pictures in an outstanding science book for the primary grades." The Horn Book Magazine
Outside and Inside Alligators "This newest installment of the Outside and Inside series adds another fine book to a top-notch series." Bookselling This Week, a Kid's Pick of the Lists
Outside and Inside Dinosaurs It's like sitting down with a dinosaur expert who happens to be a great teacher." The Horn Book Magazine

Sandra Markle remains proudest, though, of the praise she has received in fan mail from children. She's happy to fulfill the requests of the young readers that urge her to "please write more."