Promoting STEM Through Literature

PSTL Project Site - start here

Tips

1. Open the resources for the book you've selected.

2. Download and print off a Design Thinking Journal for each student.

3. Download and print off the corresponding book card.

4. Read the book, asking the pre-, during and post- reading questions.

5. Complete the maker challenge that aligns with the book, or create your own!

Books & Resource Folder (Google Drive Folder)

• Ada's Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay

• Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade

• Beauty and the Beak: How Science, Technology, and a 3DPrinted Beak Rescued a Bald Eagle

• Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers Edition

• Claymates

• Crayon Man: The True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons

• Full of Beans - Henry Ford Grows a Car

• Hedy Lamarr's Double Life

• House that Cleaned Itself

• How to Build a Hug: Temple Grandin and Her Amazing Squeeze Machine

• Marvelous Thing That Came from a Spring: The Accidental Invention of the Toy That Swept the Nation

• Most Magnificent Thing

• One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia

• Papa's Mechanical Fish

• Secret Subway

• Ticktock Banneker's Clock

• Twenty-One Elephants and Still Standing

• Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super- Soaking Stream of Inventions

• World Is Not a Rectangle: A Portrait of Architect Zaha Hadid