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Learn how engineers are racing to save the city of Venice from sinking and flooding. This high-interest STEAM reader features a hands-on STEAM challenge and uses real-world examples to teach problem solving.

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Publié par	Teacher Created Materials
Date de parution	15 mai 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780743922319
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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Read and Respond
1. What is a lagoon?
2. Why was it har d to build in V enice?
3. What might be some challenges about
living in V enice today?
4. How did V enice’ s location help it to
become a powerful city?
5. If you lived in V enice, would you want to
stay in the city or move away? Why?
6. Look at a map of your country . Make a
list of five cities that you think might be
thr eatened by rising sea levels.

Ben N ussba um
© 2019 Smithsonian I nstitu tion. e name “Smi thsonian ” and the S mithsonian
logo are register ed trademarks owned by the Smithsonian Instit ution.

© 2019 Smithsonian Institution. T he name “Smithsonian ”
and the Smithsonian logo are register ed trademarks
owned by the Smithsonian Institution.
Contributing A uthor
Jennifer Law son
Consultan ts
Sharon Park, F AIA
Associate Director of the Smithsonian ’ s Ar chitectural and Historic Preservation
Smithsonian Institution
Sharon Banks
3rd Grade T eacher
Duncan Public Schools
Publishing Credits
Rachelle Cracchiolo, M.S.Ed. , P ublisher
Conni Medina, M.A.Ed. , Managing Editor
Diana Kenney , M.A.Ed., NBCT , Content Director
Vér onique Bos , Creative Director
Robin Erickson , Art D irector
Michelle Jovin, M.A. , Associate Editor
Mindy Duits , Senior Graphic Designer
Smithsonian Science Education Center
Image Credits: front cov er , p.1 Horst Gerlach/iStock; p .6, p.7 NASA; p .8 (bottom)
Ken Welsh/Bridgeman Images; pp .8–9 National Galler y of Art; p.11 (top)
Giacomelli Photographic Archiv e, Venic e; pp.16–17 Vincenz o Pinto/AFP/Getty
Images; p.17 (top) P aul Wootton/Science Sour ce; p.18 Sarah Hadley/Alam y; p.24
Jim West/Alam y; p.25 Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. T oby M. Valadie;
p.26 Merlin74/Shutterstock; p .27 (top) Arka Dutta/Pacific Pr ess/LightRocket via
Getty Images; p.27 (bottom) xuanhuongho/iStock; all other images from iStock/
Shutterstock.
Library of Congress Ca taloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Nussbaum, Ben, 1975- author .
Title: Pr otecting a sinking cit y / Ben Nussbaum.
Description: Huntington Beach, CA : T eacher Created Materials, [2019] |
Includes index. | Audience: Grades K-3. |
Identiﬁers: L CCN 2018030484 (print) | L CCN 2018039488 (ebook) | ISBN
9781493869145 | ISBN 9781493866748
Subjects: LCSH: Venice (Italy)-- Threat of destruction--Juvenile literature. |
Floods--Italy--V enice--Juvenile literature . | Environmental
protection--Italy--Venic e--Juvenile literature.
Classiﬁcation: L CC DG672.5 (ebook) | L CC DG672.5 .N87 2019 (print) | DDC
363.34/9360945311--dc23
L C record available at https://lc cn.loc.gov/2018030484
5301 Oceanus Drive
Huntington Beach, CA 92649-1030
www.tcmpub .com
IS B N 978-0-7439-2231-9
© 2019 T eacher Created Materials, Inc.

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T able of Contents
A City of W ate r .................................... 4
Esc ape to th e L agoon ......................... 6
Bui lding V en ice ...................................1 0
Sa ving th e Cit y ................................... 1 6
An A merican V enice .......................... 22
W ate r W orld ...................................... 2 6
STE AM Cha ll enge ............................. 2 8
Gl oss ar y ............................................. 30
Inde x .................................................. 3 1
Career Advi ce .................................... 3 2