Water Worlds: Coral Reefs by Cheryl Hook

This nonfiction book gives students the opportunity to learn about the coral reef. The book gives definitions of words such as continental shelf, tropics, and zooxanthellae. This shows that the content of this book is advanced a a upper elementary student would benefit from it. The pictures are intriguing as well as informing. It gives details on how the coral reefs are built and found. It also has a glossary in the back of the book to help the students understand the words that the author uses.

Teachers can allow students to draw pictures of the coral reef or make a video of the components of the coral reef in order to assess their understanding. The students can show pictures of the words like continental shelf and zooxanthellae.

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Teachers can use ANIMOTO videos in their classroom to give their students an opportunity to create their own videos. It is very simple to make. The student needs to have pictures in order to create the video and ANIMOTO provides music that students can choose from to make the video even more special.