Science Literacy in the Library

Agenda

Role of librarian/media specialist in science teaching

Key concepts for scienceBest Sci Tech Books for 2007Other BooksResearch ActivityScience ActivityPresentationsClosing

Teaching Science Concepts

Inquiry

Observation

Interpretation

Discovery

Creativity

2007 Top 10 Sci Tech Books for Youth from Booklist

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

Dogs and Cats(2007)

By Steve Jenkins

Houghton

ISBN-13: 978-0-618-50767-2

Gr. 1-3

Extreme Animals: The Toughest Creatures on Earth (2007)

By Nicola Davies; Illustrated by Neal Layton

Candlewick. ISBN: 0-7636-3067-5

Gr. 3-5

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

An Inconvenient Truth

(2007)

By Al Gore and Jane O’Connor

Viking

ISBN: 978-0-670-06271-3

Gr. 6-12

Life-Size Killer Creatures (2007)

By Daniel Gilpin

Sterling

ISBN 13: 978-1-4027-2701-6

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

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

Skyscraper (2007)

By Lynn Curlee

Simon & Schuster

ISBN-13: 978-0-689-84489-8

Gr. 4-7

Venom (2007)

By Marilyn Singer

Darby Creek

ISBN078-1-58196-043-3

Gr. 5-8

Bluebonnet Books 2008-2009

Comets, Stars, the

Moon and Mars

By Douglas Florian

Harcourt

Bluebonnet Books

Marvelous Mattie: How

Margaret E. Knight

Became an Inventor

By Emily Arnold McCully

Farrar Strauss Girous

Bluebonnet Books

Team Moon: How 400,000

People Landed Apollo 11

On the Moon

By Catherine Thimmesh

Houghton Mifflin

Bluebonnet Books

What you Never Knew

About Beds, Bedrooms,

& Pajamas

By Patricia Lauber

Simon & Schuster

Bluebonnet Books

The Middle of Somewhere

By J. B. Cheaney

Knopf Books

Tejas Star Books

Butterflies on Carmen

Street/Mariposas en la

Calle Carmen

By Monica Brown

Piñata Books

Tejas Star Books

Nana’s Big Surprise

By Amada Irma Perez

Children’s Book Press

Tejas Star Books

La fiesta de las

Tortillas/The Fiesta

of the Tortillas

By Jorge Argueta

Alfaguara

Other Books

Mexico’s Roswell:The Chihuahua UFOCrash

By Noe Torres & Ruben Uriarte

VBW Publishing

Other Books

The First Tortilla:

A Bilingual Story

By Rudolfo Anaya

University of New

Mexico Press

Other Books

The Holy Tortilla and

a Pot of Beans

By Carmen Tafolla

Wings Press

Other Books

Dishes from the Wild

Horse Desert

By Melissa Guerra

Wiley

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.

Group Assignments

1. Everyone reads and interprets instructions and data

2. Recorder(2)

3. Chef

4. Chef’s assistant

5. Video recorder

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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(956) 984-6055