Travel Adventures: Yellowstone : Volume

This text integrates math and literacy skills and uses real-world examples to help grade 5 students explore math in a meaningful way. Students will practice measuring volume while engaged in reading about the unique features of Yellowstone National Park.

Yellowstone National Park is filled with many beautiful sights. But, it is also a bizarre and dangerous place! Underground heat melts roads. The ground shakes with earthquakes. Small, bubbling pools are ringed with strange yellow and orange water. Geysers shoot into the air. Yellowstone is full of contradictions. It''s wild, but it is also carefully managed and under control. Learn all about this beloved national park with this nonfiction book that combines math and literacy skills and uses everyday examples of problem solving to teach subject area content. The full-color images, math charts and diagrams, sidebars, and practice problems make learning to measure volume relevant and fun. Text features include a table of contents, glossary, and index to increase understanding of math and reading concepts. An in-depth problem-solving section provides additional learning opportunities while challenging students'' higher-order thinking skills.