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STEM books offer endless opportunities for engaged learning. They invite students to see the world differently and to think in new ways about what they observe. We have chosen titles [...]

We invite you to explore this year's list of Outstanding Science Trade Books, which builds upon our 49-year history of identifying the very best in science books for children. In [...]

Ben Jeapes. Illustrated by Nick Ward. ABRAMS / Abrams Books for Young Readers. 154pp. Trade ISBN 9781419740756, $9.99. (3-5, 6-8) How did the first computer come to be? It started [...]

We invite you to explore this year's list of Outstanding Science Trade Books, which builds upon our 48-year history of identifying the very best in science books for children. In [...]

In the late 1700s, an Italian scientist named Luigi Galvani made a startling discovery while experimenting with dissected frogs. Galvani found that when he touched two types of metals--such as [...]

What might a photograph of your classroom tell an observer about your classroom community? Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) was one of the first American women to achieve prominence as a [...]

Deadline for submissions: July 8, 2023 ELIGIBILITY * Titles should be for grades K-12. * All titles must originate from a children's publishing company or division and must be published [...]

STEM books offer endless opportunities for engaged learning. They invite students to see the world differently and to think in new ways about what they observe. We have chosen titles [...]

BOOKS PUBLISHED in 2017 We invite you to explore this year's list of Outstanding Science Trade Books, which builds upon our 45-year history of identifying the very best in science [...]

BOOKS PUBLISHED in 2016 We invite you to explore this year's list of Outstanding Science Trade Books, which builds upon our 44-year history of identifying the very best in science [...]

This is the inaugural year for the 'Best STEM Books' list. Interest from readers and publishers alike has been 'off the charts.' The impetus for the list is the profound [...]

In April 1875, three individuals, including Gaston Tissandier, ascended in a balloon called the Zenith, near Paris, France, to an altitude of nearly 28,000 feet and lost consciousness. A newspaper [...]

Books published in 2015. Science teachers and mentors continue to be challenged to meet the high expectations of A Framework for K-12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards. [...]

Science teachers and mentors continue to be challenged to meet the high expectations of A Framework for K-12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards. Indeed the Framework urges [...]

This year, science and mentors have been challenged to meet the high expectation of A Framework for K-12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards. The framework urges us [...]

Our vision of what we call science has broadened. The practices we use to explore the natural world and to create new products now include mathematics and engineering. We also [...]

From east to west, from the depths of the ocean to the farthest reaches of the universe, good science trade books take us on journeys of the imagination. For the [...]

When you need a mobile device for reading, reference, and performing calculations, what do you reach for? If you were a student in the 18th century, you might have picked [...]

Texting around the world may seem like a recent innovation, but real-time electronic communication between continents actually started more than a century and a half ago. On August 16, 1858, [...]

The importance of evidence and reasoning in scientific argumentation cannot be exaggerated. Before explanations can be generated, verified, communicated, debated, and modified, evidence must first be observed and students must [...]

Science teachers and mentors continue to be challenged to meet the high expectations of A Framework for K-12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards. Indeed the Framework urges [...]

In spring 1543 in Nuremburg, Germany, astronomer and mathematician Nicolaus Copernicus, 70, held in his quivering hands the first printed copy of his groundbreaking book, De revolutionibus. Documenting a lifetime [...]

Orville and Wilbur Wright are known as the brothers who first solved the problem of powered, controlled, and sustained human flight, but few remember the inventors who tried but didn't [...]

Exploring Science and History With the Library of Congress The History of Fingerprinting Anyone who's ever read a mystery or watched a true crime show has heard of forensics, the [...]

An understanding of the periodic table is central to the study of chemistry. So it's no surprise that it's included in the National Science Education Standards (Physical Science Content Standard [...]

Science is passion, science is wonder. The best books about science stir the minds and hearts of readers in very special ways; and when they do, the impressions they make [...]

Many students struggle with the complex issues involved in environ mental science. Some do not understand why society--ranging from government leaders to everyday citizens--has not embraced 'greener' methods of living. [...]

'Texting' in the 19th Century Texting around the world may seem like a recent innovation, but real-time electronic communication between continents actually started more than a century and a half [...]

In spring 1543 in Nuremburg, Germany, astronomer and mathematician Nicolaus Copernicus, 70, held in his quivering hands the first printed copy of his groundbreaking book, De revolutionibus. Documenting a lifetime [...]