10 Good Reads

Looking for great science reads for students? Check out these 10 suggestions. 

1. Magic Tree House Research Guide: Rain Forests by Mary Pope Osborne and Will Osborne 

The Magic Tree House Research Guide books are wonderful nonfiction texts that correlate with the topics discussed in the Magic Tree House series. Jack and Annie track down facts from their journeys to better help them understand the world around them. Students will love researching with these texts! 

2. What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page

In this text, the authors explore the many amazing things animals can do with their ears, eyes, mouths, noses, feet, and tails. This text has earned a Caldecott Honor for the beautiful illustrations that students will love!  

3. Science Matter! Volume 1- Food, Teeth, and Eating by Dr. Brian Knapp

Science Matters! is a set of texts published by scholastic that provides beneficial information to students about many topics. This particular texts includes colorful photographs and interesting diagrams to help present information to students about food, teeth, and eating. 

4. The Fossil Girl: Mary Anning's Dinosaur Discovery by Catherine Brighton 

In this text, the author illustrates the story of how Mary Anning discovered the complete fossil of an Ichthyosaurus. While this text contains facts about Mary Anning's findings, it is told as a narrative that students would enjoy reading/listening to. 

5. Levers by Anne Weisbacher

This nonfiction texts helps students understand levers. It includes wonderful information about the parts of levers, how to use levers, first-class/second-class/third-class levers, and words to know. Along with this text about levers, the author also has other books in the series addressing other simple machines such as: inclined planes, pulleys, screws, wedges, wheels and axles. This series would be great to include when teaching simple machines!

6. Sound and Music by Jon Richards

This text provides information about sound including the scientific aspect of how sound occurs. The text offers many engaging science experiments that allow children to more deeply explore the topic. The content includes the power of sound, bouncing sound, collecting sounds, hearing sounds, stereo sounds, soundproofing, and more!

7. Our Solar System by Peter Wilks and David West

This colorful text shares information about the solar system through a question/answer structure. The large illustrations, font size, and diagrams will entice students to continue reading! Questions are presented that students typically ask, along with answers in terms students can understand.

8. How Weather Works by Christiane Dorion and Beverley Young

This text provides a hands-on guide to our changing climate. The wonderful book includes amazing pop-ups, wheels to turn, flaps to lift, and tabs to pull all to explore the Earth. Students will love finding out information about the weather using this brilliant text! 

9. What If You Had Animal Teeth!? by Sandra Markle and illustrated by Howard McWilliam 
This hilarious text shares information about animal teeth and proceeds to illustrate how we would look in those teeth! Students will love looking at the illustrations and laughing along as they learn about different animal teeth. 





10. Me and My Amazing Body by Joan Sweeney and illustrated by Annette Cable 
In this text, students can discover facts about their body from their head to their toes. It provides great illustrations and diagrams of the anatomy along with bold anatomy terms. Also consider checking out her other texts: Me on the Map, Me and My Place in Space, and Me and My Family Tree.