Support for long-term classroom planning and professional development. Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. Each book in the series provides basic information about an animal's appearance, habitat, and specialized adaptations, as well as its position in the food chain and relationship with humans. The text is supported by large, color photographs. This book begins with a labelled photo diagram that depicts the external body parts of a snail and a list of fast facts that summarize features common to the over 60,000 different kinds of snails, including their range, food, and reproductive cycle.
Subsequent pages explain that snails belong to the mollusk family of invertebrates.
Readers learn that snails live in warm, wet environments, that most snails are herbivores, and snails reproduce by laying eggs. The photographs depict a variety of snail species, as well as some snails that have very colorful shells. Other pictures show a cluster of land snail eggs and a snail that is almost as large as a human hand. The book concludes with a simple activity in which blindfolded students mix cornstarch and water to make their own slime. A glossary, bibliography, and list of related Internet resources are provided.