Find us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter


We Accept:
Accepted Payments

Order Toll Free:
1-800-326-9273
Lamp Post
Homeschool Store
"Where Wisdom is at Home"
1741 Tallman Hollow Road
Montoursville, PA 17754

HSLDA... free to homeschool!

You are here: Lamp Post Home » Curriculum » Science Index » Beautiful Feet History of Science Guide and Books

Beautiful Feet 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, Beautiful Feet Books
History of Science Through Literature

By Rebecca Berg, Published by Beautiful Feet Books

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. *

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

  • Explorabook (Out of Print)
  • The Picture History of Great Inventors *
  • Composition Notebook (you can find a similar book at Wal-Mart or Staples)

bfhstl

List $13.95

Out of Stock Indefinitely

History of Science Books

Science Experiment Pamphlet by Beautiful Feet Books
Science Experiment Pamphlet

Published by Beautiful Feet Books

The Science Experiment Pamphlet has instructions for the experiments used in the History of Science course.

bfbsep

Price $6.00

Add to Cart button

Albert Einstein, Young Thinker
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.

ISBN-13:
9780020418603

Price $5.99

Add to Cart button

Along Came Galileo
Along Came Galileo

By Jeanne Bendick, Published by Beautiful Feet Books

ISBN-13:
9781893103016

Price $9.95

Add to Cart button

Archimedes and the Door of Science by Jeanne Bendick, Bethelehem Books 9781883937126
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.

ISBN-13:
9781883937126

List $13.95

Sale Price $12.95

Add to Cart button

Galen and the Gateway to Medicine by Jeanne Bendick, Bethelehem Books 9781883937751
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.

ISBN-13:
9781883937751

List $13.99

Sale Price $12.49

Add to Cart button

Johannes Kepler, Giant of Faith and Science by John Hudson Tiner 9780915134113
Johannes Kepler, Giant of Faith and Science

By John Hudson Tiner, Sowers Series

Grade 8

ISBN-13:
9780915134113

List $7.99

Sale Price $6.99

Add to Cart button

Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia
Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia

Landmark Books

ISBN-13:
9780394849287

List $5.99

Sale Price $5.49

Add to Cart button

Louis Pasteur, Founder of Modern Medicine by John Hudson Tiner 9780880621595
Louis Pasteur, Founder of Modern Medicine

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

Grade 8

ISBN-13:
9780880621595

List $7.99

Sale Price $6.99

Add to Cart button

Marie Curie's Search for Radium by Beverly Birch 9780812097917
Marie Curie's Search for Radium

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."

ISBN-13:
9780812097917

List $5.95

Price $5.95

Add to Cart button

Mystery of the Periodic Table by Benjamin D. Wicker, Bethelehem Books 9781883937713
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.

ISBN-13:
9781883937713

List $14.95

Sale Price $13.49

Add to Cart button

Ocean of Truth
Ocean of Truth

By Joyce McPherson, Published by Greenleaf Press

The Ocean of Truth is about Sir Isaac Newton.

ISBN-13:
9781882514502

List $12.95

Sale Price $11.95

Add to Cart button

The New Way Things Work
The New Way Things Work

By David Macaulay

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

ISBN-13:
9780395938478

List $35.00

Sale Price $31.95

Add to Cart button

A Piece of the Mountain

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.

ISBN-13:
9781882514175

List $12.95

Sale Price $11.95

Add to Cart button

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.

ISBN-13:
9780812097931

Price $5.95

Add to Cart button

Robert Boyle Trailblazer of Science by John Hudson Tiner 9780880621557
Robert Boyle Trailblazer of Science

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

Scientist, Grade 8

ISBN-13:
9780880621557

List $7.99

Sale Price $6.99

Add to Cart button

Samuel F. B. Morse Artist with a Message by John Hudson Tiner 9780880621373
Samuel F. B. Morse Artist with a Message

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

Grade 7

ISBN-13:
9780880621373

List $7.99

Sale Price $6.99

Add to Cart button

Scientists Card Deck
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.

ISBN-13:
9781572814516

Price $6.00

Add to Cart button

The Story of Thomas Alva Edison
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."

ISBN-13:
9780394848839

List $5.99

Sale Price $5.49

Add to Cart button

Thomas Edison, Young Inventor
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

ISBN-13:
9780020418504

List $5.99

Sale Price $5.49

Add to Cart button

The Wright Brothers
Wright Brothers

By Quentin Reynolds, Landmark Books

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

ISBN-13:
9780394847009

List $5.99

Sale Price $5.49

Add to Cart button

The Wright Brothers Inventors, They Gave Us Wings by Charles Ludwig 9780880621410
The Wright Brothers Inventors, They Gave Us Wings

By Charles Ludwig, Sowers Series, Published by Mott Media

US, Grade 5

ISBN-13:
9780880621410

List $7.99

Sale Price $6.99

Add to Cart button

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.

ISBN-13:
9781878257147

Out of Print
Not Available at this time.

History of Science Timeline

History of Science Timeline by Beautiful Feet Books
History of Science Timeline

Published by 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

Price $9.95

Sale Price $9.49

Out of Stock Indefinitely