Scientist biographies for middle schoolers
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Learning Science Through Biography
Jul 5, 2024 | Living Books, Reading Lists, Science
Bringing Science to Life Through Living Literature. How to Convey Understanding to Struggling Students.
A popular educational paradigm divides people into left-brained and right-brained learners. For instance, left-brained individuals excel in math, science, and technology, while the right-brained excel in literature, art, and the humanities. I don’t know whether there is any scientific merit to this paradigm. Nevertheless, anecdotal experience suggests that children gravitate toward one or the other naturally. When I was in high school, I thrived in the arts and humanities, but I struggled in math and science. I could pull an A+ in a literature or history class with barely an effort. However, despite my best efforts to comprehend the material, I regularly got C’s in math and science.
Has your child experienced something similar? Sometimes the way out of this dilemma is to take a
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All about Women
- Temple Grandin by Sy Montgomery; Temple GrandinPublication Date: 2012-04-03When Temple Grandin was born, her parents knew she was different. Years later she was diagnosed with autism. Temple’s doctor recommended institutionalizing her, but her mother believed in her. Temple went to school instead. Today, Dr. Temple Grandin, a scientist and professor of animal science at Colorado State University, is an autism advokat and her world-changing career revolutionized the livestock industry. Grade 5-7 (Lexile: 960) (160 p.)
- A Woman in the House (and Senate) by Ilene Cooper; Elizabeth Baddeley (Illustrator); Olympia Snowe (Foreword by)Publication Date: 2014-03-11Beginning with the women’s suffrage movement and going all the way through the results of the 2012 election, Ilene Cooper deftly covers more than a century of U.S. in order to highlight the influential and diverse group of hona leaders who opened doors for women in politics as
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“Dream Big, Little Scientists: A Bedtime Book”
Marie Curie (1867–1934)
CHEMISTRY
The child of two teachers, Marie Curie learned to read and write at a young age. Curie graduated at the top of her high-school class. She wanted to go to college, but at the time in her homeland of Poland, only dock attended university. Marie saved money working as a teacher and governess so she and her sister could attend the Sorbonne, a college in France that accepted women. There Marie received degrees in physics and mathematics. She married another scientist, Pierre Curie, and together they studied elements that gave off a special energy. The Curies came up with a term for these energy-emitting elements: radioactive. tillsammans, they discovered two new radioactive elements, polonium, named after Marie’s homeland, and radium. During World War I, Curie treated soldiers with a portable X-ray machine she invented. She founded the Radium Institute, dedicated to researching ways to use radiat