1. Harnessing the Power of Science Trade Books for Your Classroom Dr. Kristin Rearden and Dr. Amy Broemmel University of Tennessee Symposium on Powerful Teaching April 1, 2006

2. Our Presentation Choosing books for your classroom Book features to review Final notes on our research

3. Choosing Books for Your Classroom Resources: IRA’s Teachers’ Choices NSTA Recommendations Textbook recommendations Other teachers

4. Our Presentation Choosing books for your classroom Book features to review Final notes on our research

5. Book Features to Review Science content Genre Visual features

6. How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning Physical Science: Conductivity History and Nature of Science: Inventions in the context of world history

7. Girls Think of Everything Highlights female inventors with short biographies Past and current inventors showcased

8. So You Want to be an Inventor Short descriptions of various inventors and their work Discusses the characteristics of inventors

9. The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane Trial-and-error nature of inventions highlighted Presented in historical context

10. Book Features to Review Science content Genre Visual features

11. Poetry: The Beauty of the Beast Various types included Contains science content and allegory Example: Owls

12. Story: How Groundhog’s Garden Grew Plotline; Usually contains elements of fantasy Creative presentation of information Elicit from students facts versus ‘story’

13. Dual Purpose: Come Back, Salmon Narrative of the quest of an elementary school class to save the regional salmon Includes separate informational pieces Excellent example of Science as Inquiry

14. Dual Purpose Text Storyline throughout the book Additional sidebar information

15. Non-Narrative Informational: Hiding Out: Camouflage in the Wild Presents information by topic Examples of various animals in their habitats Simple captions

16. Narrative Informational: One Tiny Turtle Presents information in time-sensitive manner Life cycle of the turtle Some additional factual information included in smaller font

17. Book Features to Review Science content Genre Visual features

18. Illustrations that Support the Text So You Want to be an Inventor Interesting Fun to look at Engaging

19. Photographs that support text Saguaro Cactus Both photographs and illustrations included Insets provide further information Captions rare

20. Illustrations that Extend Text The Pumpkin Book Labeled drawings of plant parts Provide more details/information than the text itself does Diagrams, “up close” drawings, charts, etc.

21. Specialized Text Beaks! Realistic depictions

22. Specialized Text Painted, cut paper illustrations Suggested readings & websites that support the text

23. Specialized Text Girls Think of Everything Timeline Sketches add interest

24. Specialized Text The Emperor's Egg Multiple Levels of Text present different information Varied text size and font

25. Specialized Text One Tiny Turtle Story line in larger font Additional information in smaller font

26. Specialized Text Seeing Stars Historical and scientific explanations of star- related concepts Sidebars that contain experiments, additional information, and quizzes

27. Specialized Text Sidebars that contain experiments, additional information, and quizzes

28. Specialized Text Around One Cactus… Poetic descriptions of animals who live in and around a Saguaro cactus

29. Endnotes Information Field Notes Additional Information

30. Glossary Information Are Trees Alive? Provides more in- depth information to supplement text Bold-faced words; field notes; additional information

31. Our Presentation Choosing books for your classroom Book features to review Final notes on our research

32. Life Science Prevails The majority of books we reviewed were Life Science Physical Science was very limited

33. Books Have Multiple Uses Seven Blind Mice Exemplifies need to thoroughly investigate, which is a hallmark of inquiry-based science

34. Teachers should indeed feel confident in choosing Teachers’ Choices books to link science and reading in an interesting, meaningful, and developmentally appropriate manner— especially to support concepts related to life science.