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STEM Tuesday– Celebrating Women’s History Month– Book List

By STEM Tuesday on March 5, 2019 / Common Core & NGSS, Cross-Curricular, STEM Tuesday, Women's History Month

Hurrah for Women’s History Month! In this book list, we showcase some of our favorite biographies about past female pioneers who blazed a trail in science, technology, engineering, or math. But biographies only scratch the surface. We encourage you to also dig into STEM titles that feature contemporary women working in STEM fields. Your children might discover a new role model or career!

Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women by Catherine Thimmesh

This updated collective biography has some new inventors to inspire young readers including, Alissa Chavez, a Latinx teen who invented the Hot Seat to prevent infant deaths in hot cars; Azza Abdelhamid Faiad, an Egyptian teen who devised a method of turning recycled plastic into fuel; and Kiara Nirghin, a South African teen who came up with a way to fight drought using the absorbency of orange peels.

Super Women: Six Scientists Who Changed the World by Laurie Lawlor

Read about six extraordinary scientists, including an ichthyologist, a cartographer, an anthropologist, a pharmacologist, and an astrophysicist in this informative collective biography.

Women in Science: 50 Fearless pioneers Who Changed The World by Rachel Ignotofsky

Check out this popular collective biography if you haven’t already. It is a great addition to your classroom science shelf and a wonderful resource.

Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science by Jeannine Atkins

Jeannine Atkins beautifully tells the tales of Maria Merian, Mary Anning, and Maria Mitchell through verse.

The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian’s Art Changed Science by Joyce Sidman

This multi-award winning title of Maria Merian’s life is exceptionally crafted with words and illustrations. A must read!

Hidden Figures Young Readers’ Edition by Margot Lee Shetterly

This edition brings an important story to young readers. A great selection for parent/child book clubs!

Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific by Mary Cronk Farrell

Mary Cronk Farrell shines a light on the important World War II nurses in this biography. Exceptionally researched and well told.

Radioactive: How Irene Curie and Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World by Winifred Conkling

Learn more about these two groundbreaking physicists contributed to the creation of the atomic bomb. This is a great companion book to Steve Sheinkin’s BOMB.

Marie Curie for Kids: Her Life and Scientific Discoveries, with 21 Activities and Experiments by Amy O’Quinn

This terrific hands-on biography brings Marie Curie’s life and science to young readers.

For a selection of titles that feature today’s female scientists, be sure to check out the following:

Scientists in the Field titles, including
- Emi and the Rhino Scientist by Mary Kay Carson and Tom Uhlman
- The Elephant Scientist by Caitlin O’Connell and Donna M. Jackson
- The Hyena Scientist by Sy Montgomery
- Sea Turtle Scientist by Stephen R. Swinburne
Zoology: Cool Women Who Work With Animals by Jennifer Swanson
Astronaut-Aquanaut: How Space Science and Sea Science Interact by Jennifer Swanson
Beastly Brains: Exploring How Animals Think, Talk, and Feel by Nancy Castaldo
The Plant Hunters by Anita Silvey
Three Patricia Newman titles:
- Plastic, Ahoy! Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (with Annie Crawley)
- Eavesdropping on Elephants: How Listening Helps Conservation
- Zoo Scientists to the Rescue (with Annie Crawley)
Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World by Sy Montgomery
Something Rotten: A Fresh Look at Roadkill by Heather L. Montgomery and Kevin O’Malley

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Nancy Castaldo has written books about our planet for over 20 years including, THE STORY OF SEEDS: From Mendel’s Garden to Your Plate, and How There’s More of Less To Eat Around The World, which earned the Green Earth Book Award, Junior Library Guild Selection, and other honors. Nancy’s research has taken her all over the world from the Galapagos to Russia. She strives to inform, inspire, and educate her readers. Nancy also serves as the Regional Advisor of the Eastern NY SCBWI region. Her 2018 multi-starred title is BACK FROM THE BRINK: Saving Animals from Extinction. Visit her at www.nancycastaldo.com

Patricia Newman writes middle-grade nonfiction that inspires kids to seek connections between science, literacy, and the environment. The recipient of a Sibert Honor for Sea Otter Heroes and the Green Earth Book Award for Plastic, Ahoy!, her books have received starred reviews, been honored as Junior Library Guild Selections, and included on Bank Street College’s Best Books lists. New: Eavesdropping on Elephants: How Listening Helps Conservation, an NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book. During author visits, she demonstrates how her writing skills give a voice to our beleaguered environment. Visit her at www.patriciamnewman.com.

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STEM Tuesday– Special edition– SEARCH PARTY!

By STEM Tuesday on February 20, 2019 / Cross-Curricular, STEM Tuesday

A STEM-tastic Search Party mission, if you choose to accept it:

STEM Tuesday Search Party Event

What: A From the Mixed-Up Files online scavenger hunt search using the new STEM Tuesday site search tool to find the answers to the questions in the Google Form contest entry.

When:

February 20, 2019 – Contests begins!
March 28, 2019 @ Midnight EST – Entry deadline by Google form.
April 1, 2019 – Announce the winners via STEM Tuesday post.

Where: The From the Mixed-Up Files STEMTuesday.com site search tool

Prizes: Entries with the correct answers will be awarded a prize package from one or more of the 13 donating authors. (If more entries than author prize packages are received, they will be assigned a number according to the order received and the 13 numbers will be randomly selected using a randomizer selector tool. If less than 13 entries are received, the prize packages will be evenly distributed.)

The Backstory

Stephanie Stemread sat in her student volunteer cubicle in the dim, dusty recesses of the book stacks in Edison Falls Public Library. Mrs. Newton had assigned Steph the task of sifting through the middle grade STEM nonfiction section and weeding out the outdated books left by the former and recently retired children’s librarian. Frederick de Fictione.

While Mr. de Fictione had in an eye for children’s fiction, he ignored all things science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Thus, Mrs. Newton gave Steph the job of weeding the outdated middle-grade STEM books. This task was more than a job for Stephanie Stemread; it was a mission.

She flipped through what, once upon a time, must have been some sort of textbook. “One day man may even walk on the moon?” she read as she snapped the book shut in a cloud of dust and tossed it into the recycling bin.

Ding!

The front desk bell rang and echoed to complete silence down the aisles of Edison Falls Public Library. Stephanie walked to the front desk and found herself face to face with a short, elderly woman dressed all in black with a black hat pulled low over her dark sunglasses. The lady in black cleared her throat, pursed her lips, and handed an envelope across the counter to Stephanie with a black-gloved hand. The elderly lady leaned in and whispered in a raspy voice, “For the children’s section, dear.”.

Stephanie grabbed the envelope and studied the letters “S”, “T”, “E”, and “M” scrawled on the paper in a shaky script.

“STEM?” she asked.

“Shhh!” The lady in black looked around the library and pointed a long finger at the envelope. “It’s all in there.”

“But—”

“Shhh! Not a word to anyone.”

“But—”

“Not a word!”

As Steph stood completely dumbfounded and holding the envelope, the lady in black slunk toward the door. The door opened with a flood of sunlight. The old woman slipped through and paused briefly to remind Stephanie, “It’s all in there.”.

The door slammed shut.

The envelope shook in Steph’s hands while she fumbled to open the seal of the mysterious STEM letter.

STEM TUESDAY SEARCH PARTY PRIZE LIST

(How about this list of prizes for the Search Party contest? Pretty awesome. A huge shout-out to all the authors listed who donated books!)

Amy M. O’Quinn

MARIE CURIE FOR KIDS

Sarah Albee

POISON: DEADLY DEEDS, PERILOUS PROFESSIONS, AND MURDEROUS MEDICINES

Natascha Biebow

THE CRAYON MAN: THE TRUE STORY OF THE INVENTION OF THE CRAYOLA CRAYON

Nikole Brooks Bethea

SUPER SCIENCE FEATS (4-book Series from Pogo Books published by Jump!)

THE FIRST FLIGHT, THE MOON LANDING, THE INTERNET, CELL PHONES

Donna Janell Bowman

STEP RIGHT UP: HOW DOC AND JIM KEY TAUGHT THE WORLD ABOUT KINDNESS, illustrated by Daniel Minter (Lee and Low, 2016)

ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S DUELING WORDS, illustrated by S.D. Schindler (Peachtree, 2018)

Susan M Latta

BOLD WOMEN OF MEDICINE: 21 STORIES OF ASTOUNDING DISCOVERIES, DARING SURGERIES, AND HEALING BREAKTHROUGHS.

Janet Slingerland

EXPLORE ATOMS AND MOLECULES! With 25 Great Projects

Miranda Paul

Donating TWO prize packages:

Book Set #1 (plus a set of water stickers and a set of new baby stickers!)

WATER IS WATER

NINE MONTHS (Advance F&G copy only)

Book set #2 (plus a few bookmarks!)

I AM FARMER: GROWING AN ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT IN CAMEROON

ONE PLASTIC BAG: ISATOU CEESAY AND THE RECYCLING WOMEN OF THE GAMBIA

Kate Narita

100 BUGS!

Laurie Wallmark

(Author of Hedy Lamarr’s Double Life, Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code, and Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine)

A classroom prize pack of:
* bookmarks
* stickers
* STEM-related word searches
* pencils

Dianne White

WHO EATS ORANGE?, illustrated by Robin Page (Beach Lane/S&S, 2018)

Mary Kay Carson

MISSION TO PLUTO

Jennifer Swanson

A 3-pack of:

ASTRONAUT-AQUANAUT

ABSOLUTE EXPERT: DOLPHINS

ZOOLOGY: COOL WOMEN WHO WORK WITH ANIMALS

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Mike Hays has worked hard from a young age to be a well-rounded individual. A well-rounded, equal opportunity sports enthusiasts, that is. If they keep a score, he’ll either watch it, play it, or coach it. A molecular microbiologist by day, middle-grade author, sports coach, and general good citizen by night, he blogs about sports/training related topics at www.coachhays.com and writer stuff at www.mikehaysbooks.com. Two of his science essays, The Science of Jurassic Park and Zombie Microbiology 101, are included in the P utt ing the Science in Fiction collection from Writer’s Digest Books. He can be found roaming around the Twitter-sphere under the guise of @coachhays64.

STEM Tuesday– Taking a Look at Climate Change/Earth Science– Book List

By STEM Tuesday on February 5, 2019 / Climate Change/Earth Science, Common Core & NGSS, Cross-Curricular, STEM Tuesday

Climate change. It’s all around us. Warming air temperatures. Warming seas. Melting ice and rising sea levels. Dangerous storms and wildfires. The following list takes a look at climate and weather from multiple angles.

Hopping Ahead of Climate Change: Snowshoe Hares, Science, and Survival by Sneed B. Collard III

Sneed Collard focuses in on one of the species impacted by climate change — the snowshoe hare. Readers will uncover how a warmer planet will have consequences on each and every one of us through this fascinating study of just one Arctic creature.

Inside Biosphere 2: Earth Science Under Glass by Mary Kay Carson; photographs by Tom Uhlman

Mary Kay Carson investigates one of the world’s most interesting experiments in this Scientists in the Field starred title. This unique desert lab replicates area on Earth so that scientists can explore the large scale impact of climate change.

Geoengineering Earth’s Climate: Resetting the Thermostat (a Green Earth honoree) by Jennifer Swanson

Can scientists reset Earth’s thermostat? Jennifer Swanson explores a radical new technology to try to cool the planet in this important STEM title.

Out of the Ice: How Climate Change Is Revealing the Past by Claire Eamer; illustrated by Drew Shannon

As the planet warms new discoveries are taking place. In this middle-grade picture book, Claire Eamer introduces readers to the treasures that have been locked in ice in Earth’s cryosphere.

Coming March 2019 – Tornado Scientist: Seeing Inside Severe Storms by Mary Kay Carson; photographs by Tom Uhlman

Tornados are featured in this upcoming title by Mary Kay Carson. Follow scientist, Robin Tanamachi and her team as they try to save lives across America’s heartland.

Eye of the Storm: NASA, Drones, and the Race to Crack the Hurricane Code by Amy Cherrix

Amy Cherrix takes readers right into the danger zone in this exploration of hurricanes. In a world of increasingly severe storms, this book offers readers a look into how they are studied and data is collected.

How Could We Harness A Hurricane? by Vicki Cobb

This NSTA Best STEM Book is another to add to your hurricane science shelf. Vicki Cobb shares how scientists explore ways to weaken hurricanes. It’s a great book to get readers asking questions just like scientists.

We Are The Weather Makers: The History of Climate Change by Tim Flannery, adapted by Sally Walker

Discover this young reader’s edition of the adult title, The Weather Makers. Published by Candlewick Press in 2009, you can still find this informational title online and in libraries.

The Next Wave : The Quest to Harness the Power of the Oceans by Elizabeth Rusch

Travel with the author and a team of scientists to the Pacific Northwest to explore the potential renewable energy of the oceans. This is another great read in the Scientists in the Field series.

Weather: An Illustrated History: From Cloud Atlases to Climate Change by Andrew Revkin and Lisa Mechaley

This beautifully illustrated history of weather is a must for readers of all ages. Everything from the history of Groundhog Day, London’s Great Smog, the Paris Agreement, and the invention of air conditioning can be found inside. It’s a great resource for budding meteorologists and climate scientists. Whether preparing a report and prepping for a trivia contest, readers will come away more knowledgeable about the issues and history of our planet.

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STEM Tuesday– Special edition– SEARCH PARTY!

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