Message-Id: <v01510105b00ec384d6d6@[204.247.153.12]>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 23:29:37 -0700
To: pinhole@exploratorium.edu
From: kathy@foundations.com (Kathy Saito)
Subject: Re: Earth science textbooks
Geoff -
I've been using Heath's "Earth Science" textbook (copyright 1994) for the
last five years. It was a definite advantage over the book I inherited
from the previous teacher which was the 1972 edition of the same book.
Advantages - good pictures, fairly easy reading, good labs, lots of
supplementary materials.
Disadvantages - end of chapter questions are horrid (just basic recall),
heavy on vocab.
I tend to use the book as a backup and interweave a lot of labs and
activities that I pick up at workshops. I use the questions as review for
the students. I haven't looked at other textbooks to compare Heath with,
but have been pretty happy with the book. Feel free to ask me more
questions!
kathy
Kathy Saito
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