Fish Out of Water

Kat is a student paleontologist who uses a video chat app to communicate with readers during her expedition to visit a paleontological site in the desert of Egypt. She wants to figure out how a fossil fish came to exist at this site. Readers help Kat identify this fossil and others as they learn that the locations of fossils in rocks can indicate the order in which the rocks formed and the relative age of the fossils. As students progress through the e-book they also have the opportunity to meet the real paleontologist, Sanaa Al-Sayed, who discovered the fish fossil. On several pages throughout the e-book Ms. Al-Sayed answers questions about being a paleontologist. Using the information and interactivities of this e-book, readers will make connections and build a reservoir of background knowledge they can draw upon to construct explanations for this phenomenon.

These e-books are highly interactive, self-directed learning experiences designed to augment understanding of science content. These e-books include high-resolution images, animations, videos, and interactive simulations.

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Courtney Sneller

Amazing eBook!

As a college student who is pursuing elementary education, I used part of this eBook in one of my lessons about fossils! This eBook was received so well by my students and all of the inform... See More

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