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SCIENCE IN THE WILD

Stealth Science

Science that begins with curiosity. These are articles and teaching ideas; the retail shelves have closed.

experiential learning

The Mighty Mars Rovers: Ninety Days That Lasted Years

Two robots, a warranty of about ninety days, and a job that turned out to be mostly waiting. This is the best book on the shelf about what science actually feels like from the insi

secular homeschool

Mission to Pluto: One Pass, No Brakes

Nine and a half years of travel to buy a few hours of looking, with no way to slow down and no second attempt. The planet is not the interesting part of this book.

secular homeschool

Emi and the Rhino Scientist: How One Calf Happened

The best part of this book is the failures. A string of lost pregnancies before one calf, all of it written down, all of it in a book for a ten-year-old.

experiential learning

Condor Comeback: Lead, Blood Tests, and 27 Birds

The California condor did not come back on its own, and it is not staying back on its own either. This is a book about what that costs, in people and in hours.

experiential learning

Brian's Winter: The Physics of Staying Alive

Hatchet ends with a rescue. This book asks what would have happened if the plane had never come, and the answer turns out to be a winter of applied physics that your child will not

experiential learning

My Side of the Mountain: The Science and the Caution

This is the gentler Jean Craighead George, and it is also the one most likely to make your child want to go and do it. Both of those are reasons to read it, and one of them is a re

experiential learning

Julie of the Wolves: The Science and the Caution

It is one of the best pieces of animal science ever written for children, and there is a scene in it you need to know about first. Both of those things are true and neither cancels

read-alouds

Mrs. Frisby: The One With a Real Plot

If your child says books are boring, the honest answer is usually that nothing was at stake. This one has a clock, a sick kid, and a society of rats who have decided to stop steali

read-alouds

The Wild Robot: Short Chapters, Real Weight

The chapters are two pages long, which is the single most useful thing a read-aloud can be. It is also the most modern book on this list and the one a reluctant kid asks for by nam