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BLAST Elementary Thematic Program
Deep Sea & Robots
(January and February 2010)
Jacques Who? Exploring the Deep Sea
Recommended for grades K-2
Grab your goggles and flippers and get ready to plunge into the deep sea with Jacques Cousteau! Students will learn about the great inventor and underwater explorer, as well as new inventions that have allowed us to explore even further. Who knows what strange creatures we’ll meet along the way…
Fiction and Informational Books:
Berne, Jennifer
Manfish
Before Jacques Cousteau became an internationally known oceanographer and champion of the seas, he was a curious little boy. In this biography, poetic text and paintings combine to create a portrait of Jacques Cousteau.
Mitton, Tony & Parker, Ant
Super Submarines
Rhyming text and illustrations describe an underwater trip in a submarine
Gibbons, Gail
Exploring the Deep, Dark Sea
Explores the vastly unexplored world beneath the ocean's surface
Collard, Sneed B. III
The Deep-Sea Floor
Reveals the animal life that lives in the deepest oceans and examines the technology that allows scientists to conduct research in areas characterized by trenches, vents, and seeps
Return to the topRobots!
Recommended for grades 3-5
Robots today may not be as advanced as the ones we see on the silver screen, but they can definitely perform amazing tasks and can even help save lives! We’ll explore the world of modern robots through a variety of informational texts. Then, students will see just how difficult a roboticist’s job can be!
Fiction and Informational Books:
editors of YES mag
Robots: From Everyday to Out of This World
The role of robots in our lives is growing all the time. Learn about their many different shapes, sizes and uses and meet robots who do dangerous and dirty jobs, help perform surgery, look like us, show emotion like us and much more.
Robots
McEvoy, Paul & Gibson, Tracey
Real-World Robots
Describes how robots were developed, how they work, and the various functions they can perform
Piddock, Charles
Future Tech: From Personal Robots to Motorized Monocycles
Explains and illustrates the most current research and technologies that promise to change our lives dramatically in the future, from machines with the ability of independent thought to cars that drive themselves to robots that borrow their nature from nature itself
