History of Science Guide and Books

You can use a read-aloud literature approach to teaching the history of science!

For more structure, use the History of Science, a Literature Based Introduction to Scientific Principles and their Discoverers from Beautiful Feet Books.

Listed below are useful books for your study of science history with an elementary and middle school reading level. Reading biographies of famous scientists and inventors is a good way to learn how things were discovered and invented.

History of Science Guide

History of Science Through Literature

By Rebecca Berg, Published by Beautiful Feet Books

History of Science Through Literature by Rebecca Berg, Beautiful Feet BooksYou will need the following books in addition to A History of Science, a Literature Based Introduction to Scientific Principles and their Discoverers. The books that are more difficult to find in the library are marked with an asterisk. *

A History of Science Timeline

Explorabook

Along Came Galileo *

Archimedes and the Door of Science *

The Story of Thomas Edison

Albert Einstein, Young Thinker

Marie Curie's Search for Radium

Pasteur's Fight Against Microbes

Scientists Card Deck

The New Way Things Work (optional)

We do not carry the following items that are called for in this guide:

Ben Franklin's Adventures with Electricity (Out of Print at this time)

The Picture History of Great Inventors *

Science Experiment Pamphlet

Composition Notebook (you can find a similar book at Wal-Mart or Staples)

bfhstl

List $12.95

History of Science Timeline

Beautiful Feet Books

From the earliest ancient scientists such as Pythagoras, Eratosthenes and Archimedes to the modern Einstein, these 21 major figures and events will bring the history of science alive for your student. The History of Science Timeline is used with the History of Science Through Literature study guide.

bfhstimeline

$9.95

 

Two Student Pack for History of Science Timeline

Beautiful Feet Books

Two-Student Timeline Packs include two of the timelines for use with with the History of Science Through Literature study guide.

SCI2TL

$14.95

 

History of Science Books

Albert Einstein, Young Thinker

By Marie Hammontree, Childhood of Famous Americans

Albert Einstein, Young Thinker is a book from the Childhood of Famous Americans series.

9780020418603

List $5.99

 

Along Came Galileo

By Jeanne Bendick, Published by Beautiful Feet Books

9781893103016

List $9.95

 

Archimedes and the Door of Science

By Jeanne Bendick, Published by Bethlehem Books

Learn about the life and work of the Greek mathematician in Archimedes and the Door of Science.

9781883937126

List $13.95

Sale $12.95

 

Explorabook

By John Cassidy, Published by Klutz Press

Explorabook is an excellent accompaniment to the History of Science through Literature. There are more than fifty science activities with the props you need to perform most of them.

9781878257147

List $21.95

Sale $19.95

 

Galen and the Gateway to Medicine

By Jeanne Bendick, Published by Bethlehem Books

Galen was a physician born in 129 A.D. at the height of the Roman Empire. Galen was known for his acute diagnoses of patients, botanical wisdom, and studies of physiology. He passed on the medical tradition of respect for life.

9781883937751

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Johannes Kepler, Giant of Faith and Science

By John Hudson Tiner, Sowers Series

Grade 8

9780915134113

List $7.99

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Louis Pasteur, Founder of Modern Medicine

By John Hudson Tiner, Sowers Series, Published by Mott Media

Grade 8

9780880621595

List $7.99

Sale $6.99

 

Marie Curie's Search for Radium

By Beverley Birch

Marie Curie's Search for Radium by Beverly Birch 9780812097917Marie Curie's Search for Radium tells the true story of the woman who "proved the existence of radium and opened the gateway to the nuclear age in which we live."

9780812097917

List $5.95

Mystery of the Periodic Table

By Benjamin D. Wicker, Published by Bethlehem Books

A journey through the ages as the elements of the periodic table are discovered.

9781883937713

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Ocean of Truth

By Joyce McPherson, Published by Greenleaf Press

The Ocean of Truth is about Sir Isaac Newton.

9781882514502

List $12.95

 

The New Way Things Work

By David Macaulay

Completely updated and expanded edition of his bestselling "The Way Things Work."

9780395938478

List $35.00

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A Piece of the Mountain

By Joyce McPherson, Published by Greenleaf Press

The life of Blaise Pascal is the subject of A Piece of the Mountain

9781882514175

List $8.95

 

Pasteur's Fight Against Microbes

By Beverley Birch

Pasteur's Fight Against Microbes chronicles the true story of Louis Pasteur, a man who helped save millions of lives.

9780812097931

List $5.95

 

Robert Boyle Trailblazer of Science

By John Hudson Tiner, Sowers Series, Published by Mott Media

Scientist, Grade 8

9780880621557

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Samuel F. B. Morse Artist with a Message

By John Hudson Tiner, Sowers Series, Published by Mott Media

Grade 7

9780880621373

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Scientists Card Deck

Similar to the authors card game, this one plays with scientists. Learn about scientific discoveries and 13 scientists that have altered the world. Complete with instructions and suitable to use for other card games.

9781572814516

List $6.00

 

The Story of Thomas Alva Edison

By Margaret Cousins, Landmark Books

A Landmark Book, the Story of Thomas Alva Edison tells the "lively story of the genius who forever changed life in the twentieth century--and beyond."

9780394848839

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Thomas Edison, Young Inventor

By Sue Guthridge, Childhood of Famous Americans

Beginning readers can understand this lively, inspiring, and believable biography. It looks at the childhood of inventor Thomas Edison.

Ages 8 and up

9780020418504

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Wright Brothers

By Quentin Reynolds, Landmark Books

A biography of the two brothers from Dayton, Ohio, who built and flew the first airplane.

9780394847009

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The Wright Brothers Inventors, They Gave Us Wings

By Charles Ludwig, Sowers Series, Published by Mott Media

US, Grade 5

9780880621410

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