The Ecology Book is the newest book in the Wonders Creation series and is written by Tom Hennigan and Jean Lightner.
What is ecology? Ecology is the study of intricate relationships between living communities and their nonliving enviroments and I love how the authors have explained it in this amazing book. The books has 3 different types of levels that you can teach from. Level 1 is for 5th and 6th graders. It is the basic level that covers the Who, What, When, Where and How questions and the Building Memories part. The Level 2 part is for the 7th and 8th graders and delves a little deeper into the ecological issues and also has Words to Know and ways you can apply what yu have learned. The last level is the high school level. It covers concepts and theories on all subject matters that is inlcuded in the book. It also covers interesting information in the Dig Deeper sections.
Sarah reading from the Ecology book.
I have three children that are 7, 8 and 15. While the book suggests that it is for 5th grade and up, my younger children and I still sat down and read some of the sections in the book. They also loved the colorful pictures that are included in the book. It made the book so much more interesting to them, getting to see all of the beautiful pictures. While they didn’t understand everything, they did pick up a lot of the information that we read. As you can tell from the picture above, my oldest daughter really enjoyed the book. She loved the Building Memories section, that gave us ideas of things that we could do together as a family. Sarah also enjoyed the sections they had that told us about the different Ecologists.