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The Elephant Scientist
The Elephant Scientist | Caitlin O'Connell, Donna M. Jackson
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Describes the work and observations of American scientist Caitlin O'Connell during her studies of the African elephant in Etosha National Park in Nambia.
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Abbylippert
The Elephant Scientist | Caitlin O'Connell, Donna M. Jackson

“When elephants bunch, it indicates that they're being vigilant or wary.“

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Abbylippert
The Elephant Scientist | Caitlin O'Connell, Donna M. Jackson

I would use this book with my students to expose them to one of the most popular animals in the world among young children. This book is great for older elementary students who are interested to learn more about science, the safari environment, and elephants. I would also use this book to show students how scientific images can be used to help support content within text.

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Abbylippert
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This book discusses everything there is to know about elephants including secrets, common misconceptions, their extensive history, species facts, their sensitive souls, herd interactions, and their amazing features and abilities (footwork, ears, vocalizations, trunk movement, etc). This book contains a ton of scientific detail regarding elephants that are supported by real pictures, scientific images and graphs, and diagrams.

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ashleyweer
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Great!

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The Elephant Scientist | Caitlin O'Connell, Donna M. Jackson

Majority of the picture are enlarged on page so you can see very detail.

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kayleenschultz12
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A well detailed book about Elephants and their habitat.

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amberpeltz
The Elephant Scientist | Caitlin O'Connell, Donna M. Jackson

The thing I really like about this book is that it would enhance the learning experience of students learning about elephants. It gives a real-life glimpse into that particular field of science. It is written in such a way that the book would compliment other facts and figures style reading

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amberpeltz
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This book tells the story of an elephant biologist who made a discovery about how the huge animals communicate, and is now applying her findings to protecting them. Stunning photos of elephants in their natural habitat fill the pages

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Caitlin's early observational skills and love for animals have served her well through the years.

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The Elephant Scientist | Caitlin O'Connell, Donna M. Jackson

This book would be too difficult to put into an elementary classroom. The pictures are neat to look through though. This is good in a middle school classroom and above.

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Lf196117
The Elephant Scientist | Caitlin O'Connell, Donna M. Jackson
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This book was set up like a scrapbook! It tells the story of Caitlin O'Connell journey in Africa, where she made many ground breaking discoveries about elephants. This book is purely non fiction as she's telling her story of her journey from youth to making her discoveries. Very interesting book with a very interesting lay out.

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The Elephant Scientist is perfect for learning about facts about elephants and the students will enjoy learning new information!

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The Elephant Scientist was written by Caitlin O‘Connell in 2011. It is an amazing nonfiction story that discusses facts about elephants. I really enjoyed learning the new information and believe my students will as well!

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The Elephant Scientist is an interesting book about African Elephants in their natural habitat. This book talks about how elephants communicate with each other.

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Cruzdia1
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This book is a NF, and a Boston Globe Horn award winner. It can can be used in the classroom as a IR, SR, CR or GR. #UCFLAE3414SP18
This book follows actual scientists in their daily work from the field to the lab. Not only does this book do a wonderful job at conveying scientific concepts through engaging narratives but also through captivating photography! It also features text features like captions, keys, footnotes and more!

paulettevp This book sounds like it‘s perfect for teaching scientific method or including it in an animal kingdom lesson. I‘m definitely going to check it out. 7y
Cruzdia1 A UDL strategy that pairs well with this book is 6.3: Facilitate managing information and resources. This strategy is perfect for this book because this book has key text features that have to be taught explicitly to students who have limited exposure to them. This can be done through helping student manage this new information in an easy to understand manner. 7y
Cruzdia1 An ESOL strategy that pairs well with this book is 23: Structure advanced organizers consisting for new terminology that learners will encounter in the new lesson vocabulary to be reviewed. An example of this is providing students with a visual aid of different definitions like key term, glossary, footnote and captions. 7y
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Cruzdia1 An applicable teaching resource for this book is this discussions guide that I‘ve attached https://www.scribd.com/document/203734508/The-Elephant-Scientist-Discussion-Guid... 7y
AshleyC Yes I agree with @paulettevp! This is can be a great science book to keep in your classroom library. 7y
paulettevp @AshleyC Thank you! 7y
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