You can use a read-aloud literature approach to teaching the history of science!
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.
Published by Beautiful Feet Books
The Science Experiment Pamphlet has instructions for the experiments
used in the History of Science course. |
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Price $6.00
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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. |
ISBN-13: 9780020418603 |
Price $5.99
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By Jeanne Bendick, Published by Beautiful Feet Books |
ISBN-13: 9781893103016 |
Price $9.95
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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 |
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Galen and the Gateway to MedicineBy 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 |
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Johannes Kepler, Giant of Faith and ScienceBy John Hudson Tiner, Sowers Series Grade 8 |
ISBN-13: 9780915134113 |
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Landmark Books |
ISBN-13: 9780394849287 |
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Louis Pasteur, Founder of Modern MedicineBy John Hudson Tiner, Sowers Series, Published by Mott Media Grade 8 |
ISBN-13: 9780880621595 |
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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." |
ISBN-13: 9780812097917 |
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Mystery of the Periodic TableBy Benjamin D. Wicker, Published by Bethlehem Books
A journey through the ages as the elements of the periodic table are discovered. |
ISBN-13: 9781883937713 |
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Ocean of TruthBy Joyce McPherson, Published by Greenleaf Press The Ocean of Truth is about Sir Isaac Newton. |
ISBN-13: 9781882514502 |
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By David Macaulay
Completely updated and expanded edition of his bestselling "The Way Things Work." |
ISBN-13: 9780395938478 |
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A Piece of the MountainBy Joyce McPherson, Published by Greenleaf Press The life of Blaise Pascal is the subject of A Piece of the Mountain. |
ISBN-13: 9781882514175 |
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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. |
ISBN-13: 9780812097931 |
Price $5.95
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Robert Boyle Trailblazer of ScienceBy John Hudson Tiner, Sowers Series, Published by Mott Media Scientist, Grade 8 |
ISBN-13: 9780880621557 |
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Samuel F. B. Morse Artist with a MessageBy John Hudson Tiner, Sowers Series, Published by Mott Media Grade 7 |
ISBN-13: 9780880621373 |
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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. |
ISBN-13: 9781572814516 |
Price $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." |
ISBN-13: 9780394848839 |
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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 |
ISBN-13: 9780020418504 |
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Wright BrothersBy Quentin Reynolds, Landmark Books A biography of the two brothers from Dayton, Ohio, who built and flew the first airplane. |
ISBN-13: 9780394847009 |
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The Wright Brothers Inventors, They Gave Us WingsBy Charles Ludwig, Sowers Series, Published by Mott Media US, Grade 5 |
ISBN-13: 9780880621410 |
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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. |
ISBN-13: 9781878257147 |
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