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Wonderful Read Alouds for STEM

1/23/2017

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STEM seems to be the hot topic in school and in books. At the elementary school I work at, we even have a designated spot for kids to create, solve problems, try, fail, and try again. It's an amazing experience and it's great to find so many books out there to inspire students and STEM projects and experiences. Today I wanted to highlight a list of fantastic read alouds worthy of STEM inspiration. 

I have blogged about WHAT ABOUT MOOSE before for it's incredible vocabulary, but today I wanted to highlight  it's other possibilities. 


Author Corey Rosen Schwartz blogged about her STEM experience with the book. 

She writes, "The featured book was WHAT ABOUT MOOSE? which is about a bossy Moose who is a building a tree house with friends.  Moose appoints himself foreman and is so busy giving orders that he does not realize that he is getting himself into a pickle. His friends try to warn him, but he insists that the walls go up and it is only after the roof goes on that Moose realizes he is stuck inside.  Luckily his friends do some creative thinking and come to his rescue. Since this story is about building, planning, teamwork, and problem-solving, it seemed like a perfect fit for some engineering challenges."

During her event she had the students choose from an engineering activity. 

4 ENGINEERING CHALLENGES FOR KIDS (CUPS, CRAFT STICKS< AND CUBES

and

MARSHMALLOW TOWERS (MARSHMALLOWS AND TOOTHPICKS)

The event was a success and the children had some amazing creations by the end. 

Her co-author Becky Gomez created her own list of STEM related activities to try with students. 
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Check out Corey's full blog post about the event here. 

http://coreyschwartz.blogspot.com/2016/03/what-about-moose-stem-challenges.html



Here is a list of other amazing STEM themed picture books. What other books have you used?


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4 Comments
Rebecca link
1/24/2017 02:11:38 pm

Great list. Thanks for featuring WHAT ABOUT MOOSE?!

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Kate Kaminski
1/26/2017 11:54:10 am

Fantastic list. I love Beautiful Oops, but the titles that got the most action in my house, from preschool til even now in third grade, are If I Built a House and If I Built a Car. I need to check out a bunch of the others!

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mayra mejia link
2/16/2017 12:10:29 pm

Wonderful list!! My little one is going to love doing this and maybe the older too!

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Kara McLeod link
3/10/2017 07:08:54 pm

This is fabulous! Thank you so much!

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