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.
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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
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Along Came Galileo
By Jeanne Bendick, Published by Beautiful Feet Books |
9781893103016 |
List $9.95
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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
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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
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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 |
List $13.99
Sale $12.49
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Johannes Kepler, Giant of Faith and Science
By John Hudson Tiner, Sowers Series Grade 8 |
9780915134113 |
List $7.99 Sale $6.99
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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
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By Beverley Birch
 Marie
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
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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 |
List $14.95
Sale $13.49
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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
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By David Macaulay
Completely updated and expanded edition of his bestselling
"The Way Things Work." |
9780395938478 |
List $35.00
Sale $31.95
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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
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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
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Robert Boyle Trailblazer of Science
By John Hudson Tiner, Sowers Series, Published by Mott Media
Scientist, Grade 8 |
9780880621557 |
List $7.99 Sale $6.99
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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 |
List $7.99 Sale $6.99
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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
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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 |
List $5.99
Sale $5.49
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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 |
List $5.99
Sale $5.49
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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 |
List $5.99
Sale $5.49
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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 |
List $7.99 Sale $6.99
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You
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. *