These 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
Case Closed? Nine Mysteries Unlocked by Modern Science
Mad Margaret Experiments With the Scientific Method
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
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
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
Ibn al-Haytham: The Man Who Discovered How We See
The Sky Painter: Louis Fuertes, Bird Painter
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
Perseverance
The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes
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3 thoughts on “Must-Have General Science Books for Elementary Classrooms”
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!
Book to add to list:
The most magnificent thing
(for perseverance; also engineering design)
Thank you so much for sharing all these great books!