Science Literacy in the Library
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Science Literacy in the Library
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Agenda
Role of librarian/media specialist in science teaching
Key concepts for scienceBest Sci Tech Books for 2007Other BooksResearch ActivityScience ActivityPresentationsClosing
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Teaching Science Concepts
Inquiry
Observation
Interpretation
Discovery
Creativity
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2007 Top 10 Sci Tech Books for Youth from Booklist
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Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with a Caribou Herd (2007)
By Karsten Heuer
New York: Walker & Co.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8027-9565-6
Gr. 3-6
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Dogs and Cats(2007)
By Steve Jenkins
Houghton
ISBN-13: 978-0-618-50767-2
Gr. 1-3
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Extreme Animals: The Toughest Creatures on Earth (2007)
By Nicola Davies; Illustrated by Neal Layton
Candlewick. ISBN: 0-7636-3067-5
Gr. 3-5
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Hurricane Force: In the Path of America’s Deadliest Storms (2007)
By Joseph B. Treaster
Kingfisher
ISBN: 978-0-7534-6086-3
Gr. 7-10
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An Inconvenient Truth
(2007)
By Al Gore and Jane O’Connor
Viking
ISBN: 978-0-670-06271-3
Gr. 6-12
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Life-Size Killer Creatures (2007)
By Daniel Gilpin
Sterling
ISBN 13: 978-1-4027-2701-6
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Pocket Babies and Other Amazing Marsupials (2007)
By Sneed B. Collard III
Darby Creek Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-58196-046-4
Gr. 4-7
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Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea (2007)
Text by:
Sy Montgomery
Photographs by:
Nic Bishop
ISBN-13: 978-0618-49641-9
Gr. 5-8
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Skyscraper (2007)
By Lynn Curlee
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-13: 978-0-689-84489-8
Gr. 4-7
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Venom (2007)
By Marilyn Singer
Darby Creek
ISBN078-1-58196-043-3
Gr. 5-8
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Bluebonnet Books 2008-2009
Comets, Stars, the
Moon and Mars
By Douglas Florian
Harcourt
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Bluebonnet Books
Marvelous Mattie: How
Margaret E. Knight
Became an Inventor
By Emily Arnold McCully
Farrar Strauss Girous
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Bluebonnet Books
Team Moon: How 400,000
People Landed Apollo 11
On the Moon
By Catherine Thimmesh
Houghton Mifflin
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Bluebonnet Books
What you Never Knew
About Beds, Bedrooms,
& Pajamas
By Patricia Lauber
Simon & Schuster
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Bluebonnet Books
The Middle of Somewhere
By J. B. Cheaney
Knopf Books
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Tejas Star Books
Butterflies on Carmen
Street/Mariposas en la
Calle Carmen
By Monica Brown
Piñata Books
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Tejas Star Books
Nana’s Big Surprise
By Amada Irma Perez
Children’s Book Press
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Tejas Star Books
La fiesta de las
Tortillas/The Fiesta
of the Tortillas
By Jorge Argueta
Alfaguara
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Other Books
Mexico’s Roswell:The Chihuahua UFOCrash
By Noe Torres & Ruben Uriarte
VBW Publishing
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Other Books
The First Tortilla:
A Bilingual Story
By Rudolfo Anaya
University of New
Mexico Press
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Other Books
The Holy Tortilla and
a Pot of Beans
By Carmen Tafolla
Wings Press
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Other Books
Dishes from the Wild
Horse Desert
By Melissa Guerra
Wiley
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Research Activity
1. Describe the origin and history of the tortilla.
2. How was the tortilla significant to the Aztec civilization?
3. What is the Native American term for tortilla? Trace the evolution of the word from the Native American term to the modern term, “tortilla.”
4. Locate one article on tortilla research at Texas A & M.
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Group Assignments
1. Everyone reads and interprets instructions and data
2. Recorder(2)
3. Chef
4. Chef’s assistant
5. Video recorder
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Image CreditsAn alchemist in his laboratory.. IRC
(2005). Retrieved July 3, 2008, fromunitedstreaming: http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/
Nebula, Ant. NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute(2008). Retrieved July 3, 2008, from unitedstreaming
Planets of the Solar System. Corbis(2008). Retrieved July 3, 2008, fromunitedstreaming: http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/
Red Chromosome. National Institutes of Health. (2008). Retrieved July 3, 2008, from unitedstreaming: http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/
Contact: Maria Elena Ovalle
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