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Harnessing the Power of Science Trade Books for Your Classroom
Dr. Kristin Rearden and Dr. Amy Broemmel
University of Tennessee
Symposium on Powerful Teaching
April 1, 2006
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Our Presentation
• Choosing books for your classroom
• Book features to review
• Final notes on our research
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Choosing Books for Your Classroom
Resources: • IRA’s Teachers’
Choices• NSTA
Recommendations• Textbook
recommendations• Other teachers
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Our Presentation
• Choosing books for your classroom
• Book features to review
• Final notes on our research
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Book Features to Review
• Science content
• Genre
• Visual features
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How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning
• Physical Science: Conductivity
• History and Nature of Science: Inventions in the context of world history
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Girls Think of Everything
• Highlights female inventors with short biographies
• Past and current inventors showcased
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So You Want to be an Inventor
• Short descriptions of various inventors and their work
• Discusses the characteristics of inventors
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The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane
• Trial-and-error nature of inventions highlighted
• Presented in historical context
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Book Features to Review
• Science content
• Genre
• Visual features
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Poetry: The Beauty of the Beast
• Various types included
• Contains science content and allegory
• Example: Owls
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Story: How Groundhog’s Garden Grew
• Plotline; Usually contains elements of fantasy
• Creative presentation of information
• Elicit from students facts versus ‘story’
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Dual Purpose: Come Back, Salmon
• Narrative of the quest of an elementary school class to save the regional salmon
• Includes separate informational pieces
• Excellent example of Science as Inquiry
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Dual Purpose Text
• Storyline throughout the book
• Additional sidebar information
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Non-Narrative Informational: Hiding Out: Camouflage in the
Wild• Presents
information by topic
• Examples of various animals in their habitats
• Simple captions
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Narrative Informational: One Tiny Turtle
• Presents information in time-sensitive manner
• Life cycle of the turtle
• Some additional factual information included in smaller font
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Book Features to Review
• Science content
• Genre
• Visual features
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Illustrations that Support the Text
So You Want to be an Inventor
• Interesting
• Fun to look at
• Engaging
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Photographs that support text
Saguaro Cactus• Both photographs
and illustrations included
• Insets provide further information
• Captions rare
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Illustrations that Extend Text
The Pumpkin Book• Labeled drawings
of plant parts
• Provide more details/information than the text itself does
• Diagrams, “up close” drawings, charts, etc.
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Specialized Text
Beaks!
Realistic depictions
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Specialized Text
• Painted, cut paper illustrations
• Suggested readings & websites that support the text
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Specialized Text
Girls Think of Everything
• Timeline
• Sketches add interest
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Specialized Text
The Emperor's Egg
• Multiple Levels of Text present different information
• Varied text size and font
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Specialized Text
One Tiny Turtle
• Story line in larger font
• Additional information in smaller font
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Specialized TextSeeing Stars
• Historical and scientific explanations of star-related concepts
• Sidebars that contain experiments, additional information, and quizzes
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Specialized Text
Sidebars that contain experiments, additional information, and quizzes
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Specialized Text
Around One Cactus…
Poetic descriptions of animals who live in and around a Saguaro cactus
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Endnotes Information
• Field Notes
• Additional Information
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Glossary Information
Are Trees Alive? • Provides more in-
depth information to supplement text
• Bold-faced words; field notes; additional information
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Our Presentation
• Choosing books for your classroom
• Book features to review
• Final notes on our research
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Life Science Prevails
• The majority of books we reviewed were Life Science
• Physical Science was very limited
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Books Have Multiple Uses Seven Blind Mice
Exemplifies need to thoroughly investigate, which is a hallmark of inquiry-based science
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Teachers should indeed feel confident in choosing Teachers’ Choices books to link science and reading in an interesting, meaningful, and developmentally appropriate manner—especially to support concepts related to life science.