Kevin Kurtz
Children's Author & Educator
How to Read a Rock Vol. 2 is the free explainer graphic novel/comic book, written for intermediate, middle school, and early high school students that follows up on How to Read a Rock Vol. 1, the nonfiction graphic novel about how the scientists of the International Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) use clues in seafloor cores that help them learn what happened in Earth’s past and how our planet works. Vol. 2 is another funny graphic novel / digital comic about IODP science, but this one focuses on how cores from the seafloor help us learn more about the causes of earthquakes, tsunami, and volcanoes. It’s disasterific!
Teachers and homeschool parents can use the book to teach concepts of:
The scientific method
Rock and sediment layers
Plate Tectonics
Subduction Zones
Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunami
How to Read a Rock, Vol. 2 is available for free as a PDF (it was written to support the scientific research organization the International Ocean Discovery Program’s (IODP) education and outreach efforts, which are funded by the National Science Foundation). You can download a PDF that is suitable for reading or a higher resolution PDF that is suitable for printing on the JOIDES Resolution website.