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Websites to visit
Website 1
Explore the Earth’s structure with a clickable diagram.
Website 2
Find out about tunnels, and try digging your own! (To dig a tunnel and learn about tools and techniques, click on "The Tunnel Challenge".)
Website 3
Take a virtual tour below the city of New York. (Click to enter, scroll down and click on "Photo Tour".)
Website 4
Go on a virtual soil safari! (Click on "Soil Safari" then "Get In".)
Website 5
Make your own wormery.
Website 6
See lots of animals that live underground.
Website 7
Play a game and explore a termite mound.
Website 8
Take a photo tour of a cave. (Click on the parts of the cave to see photos.)
Website 9
Listen to fun facts about volcanoes and watch volcanoes erupt. (To see another video about volcanoes, click on a clip in the playlist on the right.)
Website 10
Build a volcano and watch it erupt. (Click on "Enter" then the "Build your own volcano" link in the menu. Move the "Viscosity" and "Gas" sliders, click on "Set Conditions" then "Start Eruption". To make another volcano, click on "Change Settings".)
Website 11
Lots of fossil things to make and do.
Website 12
Excavate a fossil online. (Launch the Dinosaur Dig Interactive Game.)
Website 13
Find out more about archaeology and digging up the past.
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About this book
See inside
See under the ground
- A fantastic flap book that takes children on a journey to the centre of the Earth.
- Beginning with the Earth’s core and crust, this innovative book also shows creepy caves, amazing underground animals, the bustling world below city streets and more.
- Featuring bright and colourful illustrations and simple, informative text and picture labels.
- With over 75 embedded flaps to lift.
“It would be impossible to praise this series too highly.”
Bookseller Back to School June 2007
Alex Frith
Alex Frith has been a children's author for more than a decade, covering every topic on Earth, from prehistoric animals to robots with artificial intelligence, and everything under the Sun, from the origins of the Universe to the adventures of Thor, God of Thunder. At home he reads too many comics, and attempts to raise three children with an awful lot of help from his wife, and no help at all from his cat.
Press Reviews
This is a fantastic, interactive, fact-filled book from the Usborne 'See inside' range. The pages are packed full of wonderfully detailed colour illustrations and diagrams, complete with picture labels, to reinforce learning. The best feature of the book is the amazing number of embedded flaps found on each page, which your child will have great fun opening to reveal further facts and pictures hidden inside! One in a great range of factual books, with simple text, fantastic attention to detail and much to see and explore on each page... educational, informative and great fun!
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