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Cougar Crossing: How Hollywood's Celebrity Cougar Helped Build a Bridge for City Wildlife                                        

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Cougar Crossing: How Hollywood's Celebrity Cougar Helped Build a Bridge for City Wildlife                                        

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The tale of P-22, a celebrity cougar and his plight from Griffin Park near Los Angeles, California across 16 lanes of traffic. Scientists and residents come up with a solution of a wildlife bridge. Interdisciplinary units include math for measurement of bridges or writing about habitat loss.

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From Here to There: Inventions that Changed the Way the World Moves

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From Here to There: Inventions that Changed the Way the World Moves

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A book about innovations in transportation with historical background that inspires students to want to become creators. It offers personal information about the inventors and details children will be excited to learn. This book has endless interesting illustrations and offers a sense of humor. Transdisciplinary units include Social Studies integration of timelines.

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The Leaf Detective: How Margaret Lowman Uncovered Secrets in the Rainforest

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The Leaf Detective: How Margaret Lowman Uncovered Secrets in the Rainforest

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This is a biography for ages Pre-K- Grade 4 about how scientist Margaret Lowman made discoveries using STEM thinking in the rainforests of the world. The book discusses how Margaret discovered a love for leaves as a child, and faced many challenges she had to solve throughout life. The illustrations are vivid and the story is rich with content and meaning for all students. Transdisciplinary unit includes English and Art for grades 3 and 4. Students can determine the meaning of vocabulary words and create definitions and in fourth grade demonstrate an understanding of figurative language. Students in both grades can collaborate with others to create works of art to express themselves within an interdisciplinary theme appropriate to the individual lesson.

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Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugine Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist

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Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugine Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist

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This is a book for grades 1-4 about how Eugine Clark, a marine biologist, became a deep sea diver and studied sharks. She wanted people to see sharks as more than fierce predators. The book depicts to students the many ways that Eugine studied and portrayed sharks. An Interdisciplinary unit includes Math measurement and data in 3rd-5th grades by having students work in small groups to gather data on sharks, and graph the length of sharks.

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This book is for ages 4-8 and offers rich illustrations on the building process of a variety of projects and how they are accomplished from the ground up. Some examples include a bridge, a wind farm, and an amusement park. The building process includes descriptions and illustrations of all parts of the design process including the workers who build each part of the design on the ground to the engineer and architect. An Interdisciplinary unit would include a Social Studies unit on Diversity or crosscutting concepts of Systems.

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Dinosaur Lady: The Daring Discoveries of Mary Anning, the First Paleontologist

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Dinosaur Lady: The Daring Discoveries of Mary Anning, the First Paleontologist

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This biography is about the discoveries of Mary Anning of England. She taught herself geology, paleontology, anatomy and scientific illustration. Because she was a female, Mary was not credited for her discoveries at the time. Mary was a fossil hunter, and uncovered dinosaur and fossil remains on display in the London Museum of Natural History. Interdisciplinary themes include Art. Students can explore the process of scientific sketching of materials as a process of documenting discoveries in nature.
https://www.calacademy.org/educators/lesson-plans/introduction-to-scientific-sketching

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Mimic Makers: Biomimicry Inventors Inspired by Nature

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Mimic Makers: Biomimicry Inventors Inspired by Nature

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This book is for grades K-4. Several mimic making projects are shown in illustrations and descriptions from their natural state to their completed invention. There are short biographies on the makers and suggestions to read about how students can become makers themselves. All K-4 grades can include crosscutting concepts in different subjects of structure and function.

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Eureka The Biography of an Idea: Bicycle

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Eureka The Biography of an Idea: Bicycle

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This book leads students through the history of the invention of the bicycle. Students can read about the different prototypes and models from various inventors over time. This can be applied to transdisciplinary units in social studies involving the creation of timelines.

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What a Waste: Trash, Recycling, and Protecting our Planet

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What a Waste: Trash, Recycling, and Protecting our Planet

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This is an informational book about recycling for students in grades K-3. Students will learn key facts about what happens to waste that is not reused or recycled, and small steps they can take to conserve and protect the planet.
This book will work with transdisciplinary units with crosscutting themes in Cause and Effect: Events have causes that generate observable patterns.

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This book is best for Kindergarten and First Grade students. It shows the adventures a girl has at school in a maker space creating with boxes, and what happens when another student joins her. This presents transdisciplinary unit opportunities in mathematics (measuring), and writing (creating stories about designs).

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This book is about the character Ninja, for K-3rd grade. This character uses the "think aloud" bubbles to show the reader what he considers each time he encounters a problem. He uses the "what if" thinking strategy to model problem solving and think through possible consequences in advance. It is a good model to remind kids and adults to stop and think. It is not a judgmental book. A transdisciplinary idea related to the book would be a science circuit project, and of course this relates to Social Studies. Rules and Laws, Scarcity, and Civic Participation are different transdisciplinary related strands and standards in Ohio's state learning model.

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A girl is having trouble building her sandcastle. Each time she builds it, a frisbee, a dog, or some other disaster comes her way. She decides to use her coding skills when building the sandcastle and work in small steps, making the sandcastle extra strong. The book introduces students to the new basic language of coding they will need in a fun and engaging format. Transdisciplinary themes include science (engineering and building) and technology. Ohio's Grade 3-5 Technology Standards read  3-5.ST.1.c. Describe legal and responsible practices when utilizing technology. This could be a book to introduce students to coding as a responsible practice that many people pursue as a life career.

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Inquiry, diversity, biodiversity. 2nd through 5th

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Buzzing with Questions: The Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Turner

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Buzzing with Questions: The Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Turner

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Grades 1-4