From: Kary Henry <khenry_at_deerfieldlibrary.org>
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 16:46:38 +0000

I just did a science in-service for preschool teachers and used a wide vari ety of books, including Vicki Cobbs' I Fall Down. I included non-fiction sc ience titles but also picture books that can be used to introduce or explor e scientific concepts. I began the entire in-service with Dan Yaccarino's new book, Doug Unpluggedё and we discussed not only "unplugging" but also getting out and exploring the world around us as the best way to learn. H ere is a sample of the titles I used:

Weather: Farmer Brown Goes Round and Round (Teri Sloat) - great to discuss what's sc ientific (dark cloud, the sound, the tornado itself) and what's not (animal s switching noises) Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain (Vema Aardema) I Love the Rain (Margaret Bridges) Clouds (Erin Edison) One Big Rain: Poems for Rainy Days (Rita Gray) Cloudette (Tom Lichtenheld) Shapes in the Sky: A Book about Clouds (Josepha Sherman) Are You Ready to Play Outside? (Mo Willems)

Animals: Chicken Little (retold by M.J. York) - I used this animal tale to introduce gravity (and then I used the Vicki Cobbs book as well as Wendy MacDonald's Galileo's Leaning Tower Experiment) Yummy: Eight Favorite Fairy Tales (Lucy Cousins) - I used Little Red Ridin g Hood to talk about physical characteristics of animals: "What big eyes y ou have" "The better to see you with" Baby Polar Bears' Snow Day (Michael Teitelbaum) Polar Bear Morning (Lauren Thompson) The Three Little Pigs (retold by M.J. York) - used this to talk about the s cience concepts of materials and strength -- thanks to Amy Koester (ALSC bl og) for this great idea!

Colors: Animal Colors: A Rainbow of Colors from Animals Around the World (Beth Fie lding) All the Colors of the Rainbow (Alan Fowler) A World of Colors: Seeing Colors in a New Way (Marie Houblon) I Dream of an Elephant (Ami Rubinger)

Along with sharing these books, we also did a few fun science experiments! I ended with the R. Buckminster Fuller quote, "Children are born true scie ntists."

Kary

Kary Henry Youth Services Associate Deerfield Public Library 7 N. Waukegan Road (our temporary home) Deerfield, IL 60015 847.580.8962 khenry_at_deerfieldlibrary.org

What I just finished reading: City of Orphans by Avi

From: Lisa Von Drasek
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For me the model of early childhood science (STEM) books are Vicki Cobbs s eries that include, I See Myself and I Face the Wind. They are my go-to wh en working with pre-k teachers to demonstrate how science is part of our ev eryday lives and that everyone can be a scientist. These works are accessib le, a pleasure to read with clean graphic illustrations.

Go-to picture books for prek and K Lois Ehlert's Waiting for Wings

Cowly/ Bishop, Chameleon Chamelion

Have you ever paired Snowflake Bently with Walter Wick's Water?

And of course poetry....some of my favorites are

Florian, Douglas: Mammalabilia

George, Kristine O.: Hummingbird Nest: A Journal of Poems

George: Old Elm Speaks: Tree Poems

Gollub, Matthew: Cool Melons--turn to Frogs: The Life and Poems of Issa (ha iku)

Hopkins, Lee Bennett: Spectacular Science

Hopkins: Hoofbeats, Claws and Rippled Fins: Creature Poems

Lewis, J. Patrick: Scien-Trickery: Riddles in Science

Scieszka, Jon: Science Verse

Sidman, Joyce: Song of the Water Boatman; and all others

Singer, Marilyn: Footprints on the Roof (and other titles)

Yolen, Jane: Least Things: Poems about Small Natures

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