What's Smaller Than a Pygmy Shrew? (Wells of Knowledge Science Series)

This book is good for science especially for 4th -5th grade. I would use this book in a science class and use an open ended question such as "what is smaller than a " and have the students fill in the answers. This would also be a good book to introduce microscopes.

This book has a great comparison concept. At first it compares a pigmy shrew (which is really small) to an animal that is bigger than it. It then compares a pigmy shrew to an animal which is smaller than it, then it compares that animal to something smaller than it and continues to reduce to

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electrons, explaining along the way. This is a great lesson in reduction and comparison. I would ask them what they would compare a pigmy shrew to or other various animals.

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This is a great informational text that introduces an abstract concept, size and value! It highlights very tiny things you would not normally see, through the lens of a microscope.

This book has a cute little way of explaining how small the small things in the world really are, down to the tiniest atom. It starts out with a pygmy shrew who feels small and moves on to explain how a pygmy shrew is big compared to a ladybug, how ladybugs are bigger than protozoa, and so on, all

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the way down to the atom. It does drag on for a while and gets more and more in depth the longer it goes so it may be a good read aloud for 3rd or 4th graders.

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This was such a cute book! The author used a progressive layout to clearly teach comparisons of large animals all the way down to the smallest atom. I would use this book in the classroom to teach key vocabulary "greater and smaller" to my first grade students. The illustrations in this book were

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very well done as well.

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