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Hi everyone,
Some of my children are going to participate in a group learning theme with other homeschoolers. For the younger ones ( 9 and 11), the theme is the ocean. For the older ones ( teens) the theme is geology.
I would like to read aloud, at home, some literature
( fiction) that could be connected to these themes. Any suggestions? I thought about The Island of the Blue Dolphins as one suggestion....
Leonie in Sydney
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Leonie, there are some ocean suggestions in the Night of the Moonjellies thread and also in this thread.
MacBeth's highschool geology suggestions.
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20 000 leages under the sea
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Hey, thank you both for the ideas!
Leonie in Sydney
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Leonie, if I were doing geology in Australia, I would find a book on the Ediacaran Fauna. I have a terrible cold, and cannot sit here much longer, but I'll see if I can find one or two to recommend in a day or so.
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<MacBeth is well medicated and feeling better>
Leonie, here are some geology ideas for read-alouds:
Pigeon Post (mining, hydrogeology)
Banner in the Sky (mountain climbing)
Over Sea, Under Stone (mostly a mysterious adventure, but includes sea caves)
The Silver Chair (underground)
The Castle of Llyr (underground with a small giant)
Tom Sawyer (more caves, and a river)
The 21 Balloons (Krakatoa)
Brighty of the Grand Canyon (erosion)
Yeah, some of these are a bit of a stretch... 
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Oh, and I could not find a good book on the Ediacaran Fauna that's in print, but here's a cool website with lots of fossil pictures:
http://members.tripod.com/~Cambrian/IntrotoEdiacaran
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Thanks for all the suggestions, MacBeth!
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There's a book on Ediacaran fossils called "The Gardens of Ediacara" (I think). It is mostly a collection of essays, rather dry, but if you have a paleo/geo-buff, they might like it.
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For your really older ones, they might read "Into Thin Air" by John Krakhaur (sp?). Take a look at it first, though, I can't remember exactly, but I think there's some rough language in it. It's about a calamatous ascent on Mt. Everest a decade or so ago. It will make you never want to set foot on a mountain again. There is also a National Geographic film called "Everest", that chronicles the event, with spectaculor photography of Everest, very interesting.
Now, for the best "living geology" book you'll ever find for older kids, and yourself, I HIGHLY recommend "The Day the World Ended". Can't remember the author (I think there are two authors). Naturally, it's OOP, tho readily accessible at cheap prices. This book is absolutely riveting! It is about the turn of the century volcanic eruption in Martinique that killed over 30,000 people, and the month long lead-up to that event. It is INCREDIBLE. This book can be read as a science book, as an essay on politics, as What-Happens-When-You-Only-Listen-to-the-Media, as pure history, as an advertisement for learning to think on your own! It is a superb book. I literally could not put it down. My sil gave it to me to read after I drove 6 hours to the Florida Keys with 5 screaming children in tow. Despite one glass of wine, and extreme exhaustion, I was up until 4:00a.m. reading (and that's even with knowing what was going to happen!). The only caveat to the book is to know that they don't treat the Church particularly kindly---basically saying they were in lockstep with the government, never bothered to find out what was really going on, simply stepped up the number of Masses (so of course, that makes the Church look non-scientific, superstitious and sheeplike). However, that is a very small portion of the book. This is a great book, one that I have been looking forward to assigning to my 15 year old.
Another book I really enjoyed that deals with "living" geology, is Bryce Courtney's book, "The Power of One". It is about an English boy growing up among Afrikaaners in the early 1900s. The boy is sent to boarding school and pretty mistreated, but hangs in there, goes on to other things, gets involved with collecting botanical specimens for a German scientist (and becomes a dedicated pianist courtesy of the scientist, who loves music) and roams and wanders the arid hills of South Africa. Ultimately he ends up working in the South African mines, very interesting descriptions thereof. Mom, you might want to preview this book *just in case* as it has been so long that I don't remember if there are offensive parts in it. There might be, but on the whole, it's a book about dealing with vicissitudes, overcoming them, learning from them, and moving on, discovering the "power of one". I liked the movie, too, though it's disjointed.
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Kelly wrote:
There's a book on Ediacaran fossils called "The Gardens of Ediacara" (I think). It is mostly a collection of essays, rather dry, but if you have a paleo/geo-buff, they might like it.
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Yeah, my geology prof. wrote that...not great lit  .
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The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell is excellent for oceans.
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MacBeth wrote:
Kelly wrote:
There's a book on Ediacaran fossils called "The Gardens of Ediacara" (I think). It is mostly a collection of essays, rather dry, but if you have a paleo/geo-buff, they might like it.
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Really, MacBeth? Small world. I had to order the book from Germany (and it cost a fortune  )so we could bone up on Ediacaran fossils prior to dh and ds traveling to Namibia. Lots of information, for sure, but definitely not a "living" book!
Kelly in FL
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