gifted or struggling
What If You Had an Animal Tail? The Best Page Is Last
Reach behind you and press at the very bottom of your spine. That hard little knot is a tail. It is the last page of this book and it is the reason to own it.
SCIENCE IN THE WILD
Stealth Science
Science that begins with curiosity. These are articles and teaching ideas; the retail shelves have closed.
experiential learning
What If You Had an Animal Home!? The One to Buy First
The rest of this set is about animal bodies. This one is about animal buildings, and that single difference is why it is the one actually worth owning.
read-alouds
What If You Could Sniff Like a Shark? Check the Claims
A coconut crab cannot slice through sheets of metal. It can crush a coconut, which is more impressive and happens to be real, and that gap between the two is the best thing about t
experiential learning
Wishypoofs and Hiccups: One Case Is Not Evidence
Pip turns up changed and is as surprised about it as anybody else. One odd thing is a story. Two odd things are the beginning of an answer, and that is the shape of this whole book
read-alouds
Unicorns and Germs: A Problem That Grows on Its Own
A broken leg does not get worse while you sleep. An infection does. That difference is the hinge this whole book turns on, and it is one of the most useful things a seven year old
experiential learning
The Pod and the Bog: The Answer Is in the Habitat
You have killed a houseplant. So has everyone, and the reason is almost never neglect. This small book about a glowing seed pod gets closer to the real reason than most gardening a
gifted or struggling
Monsters and Mold: The Trouble With Being Sure
The publisher's own copy says Zoey is sure it will be a simple fix, and then says her first two tries fail. Those two sentences sitting next to each other are the whole book.
experiential learning
Merhorses and Bubbles: What a Fish Actually Breathes
Ask most adults what a fish breathes and they will say water, or say oxygen and mean the oxygen inside the water molecule. Both are wrong, and the right answer is the thing book th
read-alouds
Grumplets and Pests: Is It a Pattern or a Bad Week?
A pile of bad days is either bad luck or a cause, and from the inside the two look exactly alike. Working out which one you are looking at is the hardest move in science, and it is
read-alouds
Gnomes and Sneezes: A Cure That Refuses to Work
Most of this book is a treatment that does not work. Zoey tries, it fails, and she tries again. That long stretch of not knowing is the reason to own it, and it is not something a
experiential learning
Caterflies and Ice: The Book Where Zoey Gets It Wrong
A storm traps a clutch of eggs, Zoey tries to save them, and she makes it worse. Books for six year olds almost never let the helpful child be the cause. This one does, and then ma
experiential learning
Bips and Roses: When the Sick Patient Is a Plant
There is no creature to feel sorry for in this one. There is a rose bush, some hippogriff eggs on a clock, and a patient you can finally split into groups and test properly.
experiential learning
The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor: Life Without Sun
There is a lifeguard in this book and he spends the whole story trying to get a class of children out of the water. He loses. What is down there when they get to the bottom is wort
experiential learning
The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth: How We Know
This is the only book on the shelf whose entire subject is a place no human being has ever visited or ever will. Everything drawn in it was worked out from the outside, and that tu
read-alouds
The Magic School Bus Inside a Hurricane: Real Weather
A storm is a machine. It has fuel, it has a shape, and it stops when the fuel runs out. That is a very different thing to hand a child than a picture of a dark sky, and it is the r
read-alouds
A Beehive Is a City: The Magic School Bus Inside One
Tens of thousands of insects, nobody in charge, no plan written down anywhere, and a working city gets built regardless. That is a different kind of science from a body or a planet