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Science Literacy in the Library

Science Literacy in the Library. Role of librarian/media specialist in science teaching Key concepts for science Best Sci Tech Books for 2007 Other Books Research Activity Science Activity Presentations Closing. Agenda. Inquiry Observation Interpretation Discovery Creativity.

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Science Literacy in the Library

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  1. Science Literacy in the Library

  2. Role of librarian/media specialist in science teaching Key concepts for science Best Sci Tech Books for 2007 Other Books Research Activity Science Activity Presentations Closing Agenda

  3. Inquiry Observation Interpretation Discovery Creativity Teaching Science Concepts

  4. 2007 Top 10 Sci Tech Books for Youth from Booklist

  5. 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

  6. Dogs and Cats(2007) By Steve Jenkins Houghton ISBN-13: 978-0-618-50767-2 Gr. 1-3

  7. Extreme Animals: The Toughest Creatures on Earth (2007) By Nicola Davies; Illustrated by Neal Layton Candlewick. ISBN: 0-7636-3067-5 Gr. 3-5

  8. 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

  9. An Inconvenient Truth (2007) By Al Gore and Jane O’Connor Viking ISBN: 978-0-670-06271-3 Gr. 6-12

  10. Life-Size Killer Creatures (2007) By Daniel Gilpin Sterling ISBN 13: 978-1-4027-2701-6

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. Skyscraper (2007) By Lynn Curlee Simon & Schuster ISBN-13: 978-0-689-84489-8 Gr. 4-7

  14. Venom (2007) By Marilyn Singer Darby Creek ISBN078-1-58196-043-3 Gr. 5-8

  15. Bluebonnet Books 2008-2009 Comets, Stars, the Moon and Mars By Douglas Florian Harcourt

  16. Bluebonnet Books Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor By Emily Arnold McCully Farrar Strauss Girous

  17. Bluebonnet Books Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 On the Moon By Catherine Thimmesh Houghton Mifflin

  18. Bluebonnet Books What you Never Knew About Beds, Bedrooms, & Pajamas By Patricia Lauber Simon & Schuster

  19. Bluebonnet Books The Middle of Somewhere By J. B. Cheaney Knopf Books

  20. Tejas Star Books Butterflies on Carmen Street/Mariposas en la Calle Carmen By Monica Brown Piñata Books

  21. Tejas Star Books Nana’s Big Surprise By Amada Irma Perez Children’s Book Press

  22. Tejas Star Books La fiesta de las Tortillas/The Fiesta of the Tortillas By Jorge Argueta Alfaguara

  23. Other Books Mexico’s Roswell: The Chihuahua UFO Crash By Noe Torres & Ruben Uriarte VBW Publishing

  24. Other Books The First Tortilla: A Bilingual Story By Rudolfo Anaya University of New Mexico Press

  25. Other Books The Holy Tortilla and a Pot of Beans By Carmen Tafolla Wings Press

  26. Other Books Dishes from the Wild Horse Desert By Melissa Guerra Wiley

  27. Research Activity • Describe the origin and history of the tortilla. • How was the tortilla significant to the Aztec civilization? • What is the Native American term for tortilla? Trace the evolution of the word from the Native American term to the modern term, “tortilla.” • Locate one article on tortilla research at Texas A & M.

  28. Group Assignments • Everyone reads and interprets instructions and data • Recorder(2) • Chef • Chef’s assistant • Video recorder

  29. Image Credits An 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 movalle@esc1.net (956) 984-6055

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