coasts

Introduces maps and teaches essential mapping skills, including how to create, use, and interpret maps of the world's coasts.

Describes the development of a fictional city in Northern Europe through the ages.

Presents an examination of coastal water environments providing information on the physical characteristics of the fish that live there, including its microbes, plants, and other life.

Photographs, maps, and drawings help describe how long-term forces, such as crustal plate movement, and short-term processes, including weather, waves, and tides, can affect the character of a coast.

Describes the various factors that change the shape of coastlines including storms, natural erosion, and rising sea levels. Also discusses the future implications of these changes on coastal and low-lying centers of population and what can be done to protect the coastlines and slow the process of change.

Describes different types of coastal areas, their features, how they are formed, and what lives there.

A little boy looks for frogs in a bay, but he finds other animals instead.

Full-color photographs and simple text describe what coastal landforms looks like, plants and animals that live along coastal areas, and other interesting facts.

Fay Fixit, Steve Spanner, and Lifeguard Sally hurry to Dolphin Bay where Tessa the sea veterinarian is stranded with an injured dolphin.

Defines coasts, describes the animals and plants that live on shores or in estuaries, discusses environmental threats to coasts, and includes real-life examples as well as related activities.