The Pebble in My Pocket: A History of Our Earth

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The depth of the vocabulary is actually beautiful and I totally commend Hooper for using this so carefully and clearly. A lively text and striking illustrations provide a revelatory account of the planet's dramatic formation. While the big numbers take some getting used to, this is a fascinating account of the story of a single pebble throughout millions of years of prehistory and history! Reading Gladiators is designed to broaden children’s reading repertoires and provide an opportunity for sustained reading and discussion. However, some of the resources have been downloaded from Twinkl which I am unable to include in this download.

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Despite this, it would still be a useful addition to the classroom in the sense that it might spark an interest in history or geography in some children.The illustrations are fantastic are dominant on each page, the information is detailed and accompanies the information being discussed. I am looking forward to teaching with it and I hope and think that the children will love it (when broken down into digestible chunks). This book creatively appears to blur the line between fiction and non-fiction, Hooper presenting a geological history of a pebble, right up to the present day where it is picked up by a curious young girl who questions its journey up to now.

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It's a wordy book - several times more words than an average picture book, but the story and pictures are engaging and held my son's interest really well. At the back of the book is a fantastic timeline linking the geological periods with periods of evolution. Tracking is optional and even if you have it turned on we aren't collecting any personal data about you.This book is a cinematic tale of the history of our earth through the story of a pebble in a child’s pocket. i can not open the flipchart file as we are on smart and the program says it is an old file type that can not be converted.

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Next the children are asked to take on the role of palaeontologists looking at fossil evidence, piecing fossils together.The detailed language, accompanied by the pictures, really does manage to 'walk' you through both the planets history and this journey that the pebble has embarked on just to get to where it is today.

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The book introduces the geological history of the Earth by following the story of a pebble, from its origins in a volcano 480 million years ago, to its place in a busy modern landscape. Text mainly sits at the top and although dense, I don't think I'd take anything away from Hooper's writing: she packs a lot into the millions of years that lie on every page.I thought it was good for use in history and geography lessons as it can be used as a starter or as a plenary activity.