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PreK - 8
Discover STEAM Books for Elementary Students and Beyond
Inspire curiosity and creativity in your students with captivating STEAM titles.
Whether you’re studying the periodic table, the scientific method, or anything in between, encourage curiosity in your students about the natural world, science, technology, engineering, art, and math with thrilling STEAM books.
Having STEAM books in your classroom library will spark your students’ interest in the world around them. You can also use these great books throughout the school year to introduce science concepts.
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From engaging biographies about scientists and mathematicians to titles focusing on how machinery works or the complexities of space, STEAM books open up entire new worlds for readers of all ages and stages.
For example, younger students will love learning about the beauty of the earth within Volcanoes. This beautiful book with its gorgeous illustrations leads children on an adventure deep into different types of volcanoes — from ones on the seafloor to extraterrestrial supervolcanoes in the solar system — and teaches them all about their inner workings through rhyme and whimsy.
There’s also Ray’s Big Day, which tells the story of a beam of sunlight traveling through space for the very first time. This picture book, perfect for kids in grades 1-3, can help teach STEM concepts through engaging text and sweet illustrations. Meanwhile, older readers will be inspired by Hidden Figures, the true story of the African American women mathematicians who helped NASA launch the first men into space in the 1960s. Students will learn about Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, who were responsible for the work it took to win the Space Race.
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How many insects can you see?
With the help of this simple, appealing board book, it's easy and fun for kids to learn their shapes! Mercer Mayer's popular Little Critter shows toddlers a shooting star, an oval train track, a crescent moon, and a sweet heart-shaped valentine.
Pretend play is key for these characters who show readers how easy it is to turn everyday household objects into fantastic, creative playscapes.
Illustrations of workers in a busy town help children understand the valuable role of each worker in the community!
Two fuzzy creatures can't agree on who is small and who is big, until a couple of surprise guests show up, settling it once and for all! The simple text of Anna Kang and bold illustrations of The New Yorker cartoonist Christopher Weyant tell an original and very funny story about size; it all depends on who's standing next to you!
This classic story by Caldecott Honor-winning author Lionni stars a worm who "inches his way out" of being eaten by birds.
A box is just a box...unless it's not a box. From mountain to rocket ship, a small rabbit shows that a box will go as far as the imagination allows.
In this 24 page board book, young children will lbe introduced to shapes, including circles, squares, rectangles, triangles, and stars, with colorful illustrations.
Machines dig holes and mix the cement while bricklayers, carpenters, painter and more lend a hand. Through simple words and pictures, children see how a house is built.
The sky's no limit as the author-illustrator winds up his Creatrilogy with a whimsical tale about seeing the world a new way.
When her teacher, Ms. Curie, assigns a science project, Cece knows just what to ask-do dogs eat vegetables? She teams up with her best friend, Isaac, and her dog, Einstein, to discover the answer. They investigate, research, collect data, and analyze, using Einstein as their case study. Their final conclusion is surprising, and a lot of fun!
This lively picture book enumerates the joys of counting in both English and Spanish while featuring objects of Latinx origin with universal appeal.
Zero may be difficult to count, but if you look carefully you can find it everywhere. It's the sound of the stars at night, it's the leaves on a tree in wintertime, and it's the balls left in the bin at recess.
The team behind the acclaimed book Caves returns with an enticing exploration of one of the most explosive wonders on the planet -- Volcanoes!
Ray is a beam of sunlight traveling through space for the first time! Join her in a fun, accessible exploration of how far and fast light travels in our solar system.
Hunt for shapes of all kinds on this journey through a bustling city, illustrated by four-time Caldecott Honoree Bryan Collier!
The true, inspiring tale of how Neil DeGrasse Tyson turned his passion for the stars into a life of educating others as a world-famous astrophysicist.
Caldecott Honor recipient Suse MacDonald has created a vibrant and enticing underwater world in which basic shapes become exquisite sea creatures. Toddlers and beginning readers will delight in identifying the crescent that becomes a dolphin, the square that becomes a skate, and ten more metamorphosing shapes.
No one expected this autistic girl to speak, but Temple did and demonstrated her talent for visual thinking that's made a lasting impact on farm management.
An illustrated rhyming biography of the African American woman and first Naval engineer to design a ship using a computer.
At the age of four, Paul Erdos could ask you when you were born and then calculate the number of seconds you had been alive. But he didn't learn to butter his own toast until he turned 20. Instead, he traveled around the world, collaborating on an astonishing number of projects and changing the way people everywhere thought about math.
At a time when being a woman and an African American limited what a mathematician might achieve, meet women who helped NASA win the space race.
When fourteen-year-old William Kamkwamba's Malawi village was hit by a drought, everyone's crops began to fail. Without enough money for food, let alone school, William spent his days in the library...and figured out how to bring electricity to his village. Persevering against the odds, William built a functioning windmill out of junkyard scraps, and thus became the local hero who harnessed the wind.
Written by a former math teacher, this creative and brightly illustrated picture book provides a thorough overview of essential math concepts.
At a country fair, discover how fractions, decimals, and percents can help you compare, buy, sell, and even win a pie eating contest!
Vivid photographs illustrate the concept of Fibonnaci numbers, a pattern that crops up throughout nature, including pineapple skins, sunflowers, and much more.
Bursting with information about the biggest volcanic eruptions and earth-shattering earthquakes, this book takes a fun approach to science, introducing readers to plate tectonics and the tumultuous forces brewing beneath Earth's surface.
Explains briefly why airplanes are able to fly, and notes certain historical milestones in the field of aeronautics.
What's the Milky Way? What's a galaxy? How far away is the farthest planet in our solar system? How hot is the sun? Discover all this and more about deep, dark space. Engaging text, detailed facts, and impressive statistics give children exciting scientific insight into the world around them and the universe beyond.
Dramatic, full-color photographs, engaging text, detailed facts, and impressive statistics bring kids up-close and personal with dangerous animals, natural wonders, ocean life, and the mysteries of the rainforest.
Remote controls, fluorescent lights, X-rays, speedometers, cell phones, and even the radio all resulted from Nikola Tesla's inventions. Established biographer Rusch sheds light on this extraordinary figure, while artist Dominguez brings his life and inventions to vivid color.
New York Times best-selling author Margot Lee Shetterly's book is now available in a new edition perfect for young readers. This is the amazing true story of four African American female mathematicians at NASA who helped achieve some of the greatest moments in our space program.
This young readers edition of the New York Times best seller chronicles the extraordinary stories behind one of the greatest scientific tools in existence: the periodic table.
This story will inspire many as it shows how, even in the worst of times, a great idea and a lot of hard work can still rock the world.
The riveting autobiography of Barrington Irving, the youngest person and the first black pilot to fly solo around the world, speaks to everyone with a dream.
The inspiring story of how Leland Melvin, an African American athlete drafted by the NFL, rebounded and reached for the stars as a NASA astronaut.
Readers will learn about the scientists, engineers, and other people working to bring us new energy options. They will also find out what it takes to make it in this growing career field.
Future meteorologists and fans of nonstop action will be on the edge of their seats until the final, gripping page is turned.
A fascinating exploration of supernatural creatures, government conspiracies and futuristic technology.
This exciting second book in the Lost series tells the incredible true story of the doomed Apollo 13 moon mission that nearly ended in disaster.
Now an expert team returns for an in-depth look at how these insidious critters do it, whether it's leaping aboard moving targets or morphing their body shapes, and what their unwitting hosts have learned to do to fight back and reclaim their space.
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Field trips have a whole new meaning since the indomitable Ms. Frizzle entered the world! Her students get a "bird's eye" view of the inside of bodies, hurricanes, and waterworks-things and places they couldn't dream of are revealed from the inside out in these stories that are jammed full of science and fun.
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Check out how these amazing real life creatures match up. Who's the strongest, fastest, biggest and baddest-in a fight to the finish, who would win?
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