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Show Me What You Know
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Author: Barbara M. Brizuela, Brian E. Gravel
Copyright: 2013
ISBN: 9780807754092
Grade Level: K-College
Reviewer: Thomas Brown
Review: Teachers who wish to learn more about how their students develop the ability to “represent” the content that they are learning would be well served to examine this book. It examines how students across different ages and disciplines produce and use representations such as graphs, drawings, and other products in order to understand their experiences. The authors use the extensive research that has ...
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What Is a Circuit?
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Author: Ethan Weingarten
Copyright: 2013
ISBN: 9781433984143
Grade Level: 2-3
Reviewer: Sally Bell
Review: Do you need a pathway to electrical energy? Ethan Weingarten uses a robot to introduce circuits to young scientists in this book, providing both content and interest.
The Next Generation Science Standards and Common Core anchors are obvious in this book. Informational text and colorful pictures that support and add to "Power Facts” give young readers an easily–understood path to ...
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How Does a Battery Work?
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Author: Roman Wilson
Copyright: 2013
ISBN: 9781433983993
Grade Level: 2-3
Reviewer: Sally Bell
Review: Battery power, where does it come from? Your students can explore this colorful book to find the answers. Give this book to students and watch the charge they will receive as they learn how a battery works.
Young readers want their explanations to be quick and easy. This book covers the topic in that manner and so much more. Divided into nine stand–alone chapters, from battery worki...
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The History of Agriculture
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Author: Gini Gorlinski
Copyright: 2013
ISBN: 9781615309191
Grade Level: 9-12
Reviewer: Richard Lord
Review: Agriculture, the raising of crops and domestic animals for food and other purposes, originated independently in a variety of places. From southwestern Asia 12,000 years ago to eastern North America 500 years ago, various populations and cultures domesticated plants for food. From the prehistoric to the present, from hunter gatherers to farmers, this concise book uses archaeological and other evide...
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The Science of Nutrition
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Author: Kara Rogers
Copyright: 2013
ISBN: 9781615309207
Grade Level: 9-12
Reviewer: Jean Worsley
Review: With the national and international focus on wellness and healthy living, The Science of Nutrition is indeed a timely book. In nine chapters, there are an array of topics aligned with the influence of nutrition in our daily lives. Background information with colorful illustrations and concise biographies of pioneers (nutritionists, biochemists, and physicians) reveal the relationship between food ...
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How to Succeed as a Scientist
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Author: Barbara J. Gabrys and Jane A. Langdale
Copyright: 2012
ISBN: 9780521186834
Grade Level: College
Reviewer: Cary Seidman
Review: High school or college students planning to pursue any number of careers—teacher, accountant, doctor, lawyer, and many others—will find generally predictable and consistent paths laid out for them. A young person seeking to become a scientist will find a less defined course of action. This book seeks to remedy that uncertainty.
Authors Barbara Gambril and Jane Langdale offer an acc...
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On the Move
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Author: Scotti Cohn
Copyright: 2013
ISBN: 9781607186168
Grade Level: K-3
Reviewer: Sarah Haines
Review: This is a charming book from which young readers can get their first glimpse into the wonders of animal migration. The book does a wonderful job of answering the simple question that might be asked by a youngster in a K–3 classroom: Why do animals gather together each year?
The text begins with an age appropriate definition of migration, then follows with examples from many represe...
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Ferdinand Fox's First Summer
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Author: Mary Holland
Copyright: 2013
ISBN: 9781607186144
Grade Level: K-3
Reviewer: Judy Kraus
Review: An irresistible kit fox greets the reader on the cover of this book and draws one into the world of Ferdinand and his family of red fox. Facts about the kit fox's life cycle, adaptations, and food preferences abound in this exquisite, photographic journey through the first year of life.
During the first year, a kit goes through many changes, beginning in the den where it is born. Af...
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About Birds
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Author: Cathryn Sill
Copyright: 2013
ISBN: 9781561456888
Grade Level: K-3
Reviewer: Sarah Haines
Review: This book provides an introduction to birds and their adaptations that is appropriate four our youngest set of budding naturalists. Written for an audience of children from prekindergarten to grade 3, the book provides encounters with many kinds of birds. Readers learn how they are similar and how they differ.
An age–appropriate amount of text on each page is accompanied by beautifu...
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Train Wreck
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Author: George Bibel
Copyright: 2012
ISBN: 9781421405902
Grade Level: College
Reviewer: Marilyn Cook
Review: Some trains weigh 15,000 tons or more? Can you imagine the destruction that can be caused by a crash? So many things can go wrong...run away trains, bearing failures, metal fatigue, bad rails. The author has detailed seventeen crashes in which more than 200 people were killed. Forensic scientists try to figure out what happened by sifting through rubble and using the computerized event recorders; ...
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