Must-Have General Science Books for Elementary Classrooms

The BEST Books About Scientists for Elementary StudentsThese are my favorite trade books to help you teach introduce science, scientists, and perseverance in your elementary classroom.  The links included are affiliate links to Amazon.

How to Be a Scientist

What is Science?

Case Closed? Nine Mysteries Unlocked by Modern Science

S is for Scientists

Ada Twist, Scientist

Mad Margaret Experiments With the Scientific Method

Follow the Moon Home

I Took a Walk

Math Connection

If: A Mind-Bending New Way of Looking at Big Ideas and Numbers

Inspirational Scientists and Inventors

The Watcher: Jane Goodall’s Life With the  Chimps

Wangari’s Trees of Peace

Whoosh: Lonnie Johnson’s Super Soaking Stream of Inventions

On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein

A Weed is a Flower: The Life of George Washington Carver

Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau

Who Was Steve Jobs?

John Deere, That’s Who

You Should Meet Mae Jemison

Small Wonders: Jean-Henri Fabre and His World of Insects

You Should Meet Katherine Johnson

The Doctor With an Eye for Eyes: The Story of Dr. Patricia Bath

The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin

Shark Lady

Ada Lovelace: Poet of Science

Ibn al-Haytham: The Man Who Discovered How We See

The Sky Painter: Louis Fuertes, Bird Painter

Papa’s Mechanical Fish

Mr. Ferris and His Wheel

Who Was Marie Curie?

Mario and the Hole in the Sky (exciting pre-order… also available in Spanish!)

What Color is My World? The Lost History of African American Inventors

The Marvelous Thing That Came From a Spring

Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille

Women Who Launched the Computer Age

Tree Lady

Now and Ben

Ada’s Violin

Perseverance

Back to School Science Books

Thanks for the Feedback

The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes

Your Fantastic Elastic Brain

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3 thoughts on “Must-Have General Science Books for Elementary Classrooms”

  1. Thank you so much for sharing all these great books! I’ve been a 4th grade teahcer for 10 years and I know how effective cross curricular strategies are so having language arts and science be best friends is awesome. I’m also a brand new blogger and looking for some blogger friends; I’d love to collaborate with you once I’ve got some more content if you’re interested!

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