Pioneers of Earth Science

Pioneers of Earth Science is an expository nonfiction text that explores geologists and the tools they use to better understand our planet and covers topics such as, maps and globes, the first geologists of modern times, improving maps, and protecting special landforms. The text includes a section on geologist Diane Evans. Readers gain information from text and graphics. Multiple scientists and their work are highlighted in the text. A two-page experiment written in third person procedural language invites students to explore the effects of rainfall on the movement of earth down a slope.

Pioneers of Earth Science is divided into sections with some subsections. A range of illustrations are used which add information and support the reader’s interpretation of the text, including labeled photos and diagrams. Many fact boxes and sidebars are used to provide students with additional learning opportunities. Periods, commas, and question marks are used. A table of contents, a glossary, and an index support the reader.

Sentences structures and lengths vary with a wide variety of parts of speech. A full range of plurals and compound words are used. Sentences contain connectives, contractions, prepositional phrases, and verbs with inflection endings. The text uses parentheses embedded in sentences. Glossary words are bold faced throughout the text. Some words appear in the vocabulary of mature language users.

This title is from the Science Readers series from Teacher Created Materials. Build literacy skills and science content knowledge with high-interest, appropriately levelled information texts.