Lightship

We read a wonderful book by Brian Floca, called Lightship. This is an informational text, but it reads very differently than most informational texts do. It sounds much more like a story.

To write this book, Brian Floca did lots, and lots, and lots of research. He read books about lighthouses and lightships, he visited actual ones, he talked to people who worked on them, he looked at photographs and diagrams of lightships, he investigated marine charts to see where they were, and he took many, many notes on everything he learned. Then, he turned all of his research into a book!

We also read a Gail Gibbons book about lighthouses, as well as another text that shows lighthouses all around America.

Then, we tried to make our own! We had two main goals: make it float, and make it act as a lighthouse. Some of our designs did both, some only floated but fell over, and some sank.