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1) Analyze it!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Introduction to what scientists do and the scientific method, including information on the different steps used for research.
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"Maria longed to travel beyond her small island of Nantucket. But she wasn't sure how. Her father taught her to look to the stars for guidance. If you knew how to read them, he said, the stars could tell you where you were, and where you needed to go. They spent hours scanning the night sky together through a telescope on the roof. Maria learned how to use astronomers' tools to measure and track time by the stars. But what could she do with her skills?...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 4
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Publisher Annotation: Are the snowy owls in trouble? Venture into the Alaskan arctic and the summer realm of these predator birds to find out. Discover the diverse species necessary to owl survival, how climate change is affecting the landscape of their nesting site of past millennia, and what it takes to do field research in this action-packed addition to the award-winning Scientists in the Field series.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Fascinating facts, figures, and pictures highlight informative text about some of the most interesting and extreme jobs that use science. Young readers will learn what kind of training it takes to be a food taster, how much money a human lie detector makes, and what exactly a professional beard grower does!
14) Galileo
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Discusses the life story of Galileo, his use of an improved telescope to study the Earth's movement around the sun, and how his theories put him into conflict with the religious leaders of his time.
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She Can STEM highlights the curiosity, creativity, and perseverance of 50 leading historical and modern physicists, chemists, biologists, and ecologists, pairing each biography with a hands-on project
Inspire young scientists with the biographies of 50 fascinating women in science past and present, each paired with a hands-on experiment that brings the history and principles of science to life. Women have been involved in STEM (Science, Technology,...
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"Joanne Simpson made groundbreaking-or should we say cloudbreaking-discoveries about weather and how it worked. Born in Massachusetts in 1923, she became interested in clouds while sailing in Cape Cod. As a young adult, she went to the University of Chicago and began studying and then teaching meteorology. After the war, women were expected to go back to being homemakers, but Joanne instead received her Masters Degree and began a PhD program. She...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 4
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An authorized portrait about Grandin's life with autism and her groundbreaking work as a scientist and designer of cruelty-free livestock facilities describes how she overcame key disabilities through education and the support of her mother.
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