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The Incredible Plate Tectonics Comic: The Adventures of Geo, Vol. 1 by Adam Wallenta, Kanani K. Lee
ursullamajor's review
3.0
This book is great for elementary readers, connecting earth science concepts to scenarios that a young student may encounter in their daily life. I was impressed with some of the concepts covered; they're things I didn't get to until my college-level geology courses.
However, there are pages that seem like they were copy-pasted from a textbook. (NB: This isn't an accusation of plagiarism, just a critique of tone & style.) I could see this being useful as a stepping stone to help reluctant readers transition to larger text passages, but it also seems like a cop out in a graphic novella. Students already have textbooks available...if you're going to explore a nontraditional book format to teach science, why revert to the traditional format halfway through?
As far as the story goes, I wonder if George/Geo is a little too goody-goody. In my experience as an educator, kids roll their eyes and shut down a bit at characters that are too far on the Gallant side of the Goofus & Gallant spectrum. Of course, since the story is secondary to the science lessons and needs to be widely accessible to all students, I'm not sure how to do it differently.
However, there are pages that seem like they were copy-pasted from a textbook. (NB: This isn't an accusation of plagiarism, just a critique of tone & style.) I could see this being useful as a stepping stone to help reluctant readers transition to larger text passages, but it also seems like a cop out in a graphic novella. Students already have textbooks available...if you're going to explore a nontraditional book format to teach science, why revert to the traditional format halfway through?
As far as the story goes, I wonder if George/Geo is a little too goody-goody. In my experience as an educator, kids roll their eyes and shut down a bit at characters that are too far on the Gallant side of the Goofus & Gallant spectrum. Of course, since the story is secondary to the science lessons and needs to be widely accessible to all students, I'm not sure how to do it differently.
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