Written using a narrative method, Novare’s Earth Science Text is well illustrated with full-color photographs and detailed colorful maps, graphs, and drawings. Topically, students learn about the earth in space, eclipses, the Hebrew, Islamic, and Western calendars, ways to map the earth with a focus on topographical maps, Christianity and earth science, stewardship, matter and minerals, rocks & the rock cycle, plate tectonics, volcanoes & earthquakes, weathering and erosion, hydrological cycle, landforms, unraveling the earth’s history, oceanography, atmosphere, weather, and climate and air pollution. Chapters follow a similar format that include clearly stated objectives and vocabulary, textual readings that are divided into digestible amounts, 'learning checks' at the end of each reading section, and an exercise at the end of each chapter. A glossary, mineral chart, and other resources are found at the back of the text.
