By Kourtney LaFavre As a teacher, one of my top priorities is to help children retain their innate sense of wonder and develop their thinking skills. I want students to leave my classroom with the abilities to notice the things around them, ask questions, make predictions and observations so that they can think for themselves. So in my early elementary classrooms, you will hear me asking students many questions:
And the second goal was to invite and encourage readers to wonder about the world around them, ask questions, and make discoveries. In the next two spreads, you can see how Saki did an incredible job of incorporating great visuals to represent curiosity and wonder. And the text is inviting readers to start thinking like a scientist. These types of STEM picture books are wonderful tools in the classroom and at home, to spark discussions about the key pieces to scientific thinking: observation, making predictions, forming ideas, and finding possible solutions. And there are so many wonderful books that demonstrate and encourage scientific thinking. Main characters that ask a lot of questions and complete their own science experiments, like ADA TWIST SCIENTIST (and all the other characters from THE QUESTIONEERS SERIES by Andrea Beaty and illustrated by David Roberts) celebrate their characters for their thinking abilities. I hope these examples are helpful for you in writing and creating STEM books that encourage and celebrate scientific thinking. Here's some further reading and more suggestions: https://kidminds.org/books-to-inspire-kids-to-think-like-scientists/ Thank you for stopping by! Happy reading and writing!
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We are so excited to be mixing things up at CBA, beginning with some delicious additions to the Blogfish. Meet our awesome bloggers!!
Here's our lineup: 1st Mondays begin with former school psychologist Dr. Debra Collins who will be writing about Social emotional Learning in kidlit and behind the scenes as well as Jewish children's books. 2nd Mondays will feature super smart Melissa Stoller whose career is taking off with several new books. 3rd Mondays will feature our new blogger coming soon. 4th Mondays features new blogger, the fabulous Brentom Jackson, who has a beautiful approach to blogging. And 5th Mondays we'll be taking a break Archives
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