A fascinating look at the Wolfsnail, also known as the cannibal snail because it eats other snails and slugs. The story is interesting and the big, bright photographs show the snail up close and in detail. Facts about the Wolfsnail are included, with some information about how the snail was int...
The Fibonacci sequence begins: 1 1 2 3 5 8 13. Starting with one, each number is the sum of the two numbers that precede it. Campbell notes that one of the mysteries of this number sequence is how frequently it appears in nature -- at the center of a sunflower, on the skin of a pineapple, in the ...
I have to admit, I wasn't sure how my 1st graders would react to this book as I felt like I was pushing them a little with the topic. But when one of them belted out a line from Frozen's "Let It Go" with the word "fractals" in it, I knew we were onto something. (The rest of the class simultaneo...