Using Story to Inspire STEM Opportunities
Someone Builds the Dream
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We love the messaging in this book - one person can have a dream or a design - but it takes many many different people from diverse backgrounds to execute the dream.
A great book for stressing the importance of collaboration - that we need others to make our ideas better. In depth review of the book can be found here. |
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
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Creating STEM Opportunities Through Literature
Some Favourite STEM/Design NovelsThe Science of Unbreakable Things by Tae Keller – Tie to Egg Drop Challenge
Spin the Golden Light Bulb – Jackie Yeager Violet and the Pie of Life by Debra Green Clues to the Universe – Christina Li Project Mulberry – Linda Sue Park Solving for M – Jenifer Swendr. Emmy in the Key of Code – Aimee Lucido Wild Robot – Peter Brown SO VERY MANY MORE!!! Like the classics – City of Ember, Hatchet, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
If You Come to Earth & Dear Earth . . . From Your Friend in Room 5
More info about DEAR EARTH: FROM YOUR FRIENDS IN ROOM 5 including a downloadable template for a letter your kids can write to the Earth: https://www.erindealey.com/books/dear-earth-from-your-friends-in-room-5/