From Sand to Glass

By Shannon Knudsen and Shannon Zemlicka

How is glass made?Sand is loaded onto trucks and taken to a factory to be cleaned, mixed with soda, limestone, and broken glass, and melted in a furnace.Once it's melted, the liquid glass is poured into a large flat shape and cut into smaller pieces to make things like windows.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822509458
• ISBN13: 9780822509455
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
• Length: 24 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.5" x 7.5"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 3