Summer is still here and you might be running out of activities for the young people in your life. Whether you are looking for projects to tie-in with your homeschooling curriculum or just want a fun STEM project to pass the time on a hot summer day, these titles will inspire you.
Darwin and Evolution for Kids: His Life and Ideas with 21 Activities by Kristan Lawson
Try your hand at a Darwin-inspired activity with this book by Kristan Lawson. It’s a great title to pair-up with Deborah Heiligman’s Charles and Emma.
Activities are a great way to learn the principles of physics. Read this one with a snack of apple slices.
Awesome Snake Science! 40 Activities for Learning About Snakes by Cindy Blobaum
Snakes might seem threatening, but Blobaum has some activities that will introduce readers to these fascinating creatures. A great pairing for Kate Messner’s Tracking Pythons: The Quest to Catch an Invasive Predator and Save an Ecosystem.
Rainforests and Deserts both by Nancy Castaldo
If the pandemic has changed your summer travel plans, discover some new places in the US and abroad with these two titles by Nancy Castaldo that include, STEM activities, folktales, and recipes.
Destroy This Book in the Name of Science by Mike Barfield
The Brainiac and Galileo editions of this series are meant to be literally pulled apart.
Smithsonian: STEM Lab by Jack Challoner
Readers will find 25 activities to excite their imaginations. Great illustrations accompany each activity.
Calling All Minds: How To Think and Create Like an Inventor by Temple Grandin
Learn from a master inventor through personal stories, acts, and inventions. Readers will come away inspired!
Recycled Science: Bring Out Your Science Genius with Soda Bottles, Potato Chip Bags, and More Unexpected Stuff by Tammy Enz and Jodi Wheeler-Toppen
Readers see how to recycle stuff around their homes and then use it for science projects and experiments. Entertaining and informative.
Albert Einstein and Relativity for Kids: His Life and Ideas with 21 Activities and Thought Experiments by Jerome Pohlen
Learn all about one of the greatest inventors in history through text and 21 activities to try at home.
Alexander Graham Bell for Kids: HIs Life and Inventions with 21 Activities by Mary Kay Carson
Your cell phone may be lightyears away from Bell’s first phone, but his invention changed our lives forever. Find out more and try the great activities in the book.
Extreme Garage Science for Kids! by James and Joanna Orgill
If you followed the author’s You Tube channel, you’ll love the activities and projects in this book. Readers can try their hand at drawing on water, removing the iron from their Cheerios, and even more.
Everything You Need to Ace Chemistry in One Big Fat Notebook
The title says it all. Inside this book is what students need to rock that chemistry class.
Also by Jennifer Swanson — Explore Forces and Motion! With 25 Great Projects and Bridges With 25 Science Projects for Kids
Get ready for some hands-on physics with these two titles from Nomad’s Explore Your World series.
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Nancy Castaldo has written books about our planet for over 20 years including, THE STORY OF SEEDS, which earned the Green Earth Book Award, Junior Library Guild Selection, and other honors. Nancy’s research has taken her all over the world from the Galapagos to Russia. She strives to inform, inspire, and empower her readers. Nancy also serves as Regional Advisor Emeritus of the Eastern NY SCBWI region. Her 2018 multi-starred title is BACK FROM THE BRINK: Saving Animals from Extinction. Visit her at www.nancycastaldo.com.
Patricia Newman writes middle-grade nonfiction that empowers young readers to act on behalf of the environment and their communities. The Sibert Honor author of Sea Otter Heroes, Newman has also received an NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book Award for Eavesdropping on Elephants, a Green Earth Book Award for Plastic, Ahoy!, and a Eureka! Gold Medal from the California Reading Association for Zoo Scientists to the Rescue. Her books have received starred reviews, been honored as Junior Library Guild Selections, and included on Bank Street College’s Best Books lists. During author visits, she demonstrates how young readers can use writing to be the voice of change. Visit her at www.patriciamnewman.com. Stay tuned for her upcoming Planet Ocean – spring 2021.
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Hi Nancy and Patrica!
Thanks for the book mentions. There is also a Destroy This…Maths book, plus one called Flight School that looks at the history of flight – both manpowered and in nature – by making flying models. You may also know about my chemistry book The Element in the Room – shortlisted for several book awards here in the UK, plus I have two more titles out in September 9soon!): Copycat Science – written and drawn by me – and A Day in the Life of a Poo, a Gnu and You! – written by me and drawn by Jess Bradley. I’d love you to check them out. Keep up the good work! Mike