https://padlet.com/madeyler/g4qfnljxds3waz3h 21st Century Literature Review en-us 2021-11-07 18:35:18 UTC 2025-10-08 19:16:26 UTC hello@padlet.com madeyler https://padlet.com/madeyler/g4qfnljxds3waz3h/wish/1873195931 Title: The Dot
Author: Peter H. Reynolds

How to use this book in the classroom:

This book is a great way to introduce creative and innovative thinking in the classroom because it follows a girl who feels like she is not a good enough artist. Her teacher wants her to express how she is feeling, where she then places a dot onto the paper, which represents an angry feeling. That little dot is the beginning of surprise and self-discovery because her teacher shows how her creation is "art." This book allows students to understand that they are capable of anything and that if they continue to discovery their abilities, then anything can happen.]]> 2021-11-07 18:38:07 UTC https://padlet.com/madeyler/g4qfnljxds3waz3h/wish/1873195931 madeyler https://padlet.com/madeyler/g4qfnljxds3waz3h/wish/1873196125 Title: What Do You Do With An Idea?
Author: Kobi Yamada
Illustrator: Mac Besom

How to use this book in the classroom:

This book follows one big idea that a child has and how he brings it into the world. This is a great way to promote creative and innovative thinking because students are coming up with an idea and then creating something out of that simple idea. It is a way to show students that you should always welcome your ideas and give space for it to grow because it is going to be inspiring to see what happens next. Using this book to get students to stat thinking of an idea they have had before and how they could make that idea come to life. ]]> 2021-11-07 18:38:17 UTC https://padlet.com/madeyler/g4qfnljxds3waz3h/wish/1873196125 madeyler https://padlet.com/madeyler/g4qfnljxds3waz3h/wish/1873196294 Title: Be A Maker
Author: Katey Howes
Illustrator: Elizabet Vuković

How to use this book in the classroom:

The purpose of this book is to inform students about being a "maker" and what its all about. In the classroom, this book is a great way to introduce maker spaces and how that can promote creative and innovative thinking. This story is layered with different rhyming verses and great illustrations, to get your students' minds thinking about different things they are able to make and how we can make a different in the world.]]> 2021-11-07 18:38:26 UTC https://padlet.com/madeyler/g4qfnljxds3waz3h/wish/1873196294 madeyler https://padlet.com/madeyler/g4qfnljxds3waz3h/wish/1873196867 Title: Hello Ruby; Adventures in Coding
Author: Linda Liukas

How to use this book in the classroom:

This book is a great way to introduce your students to coding. It is half picture book and half activity book so students can understand the basics of coding through a text. A great thing about this book is that you are not required to use any technology as you dive through the many programming concepts. This is a way to get your students' minds flowing about ways to code and learning through the process of Hour in Code. ]]> 2021-11-07 18:38:53 UTC https://padlet.com/madeyler/g4qfnljxds3waz3h/wish/1873196867 madeyler https://padlet.com/madeyler/g4qfnljxds3waz3h/wish/1873197074 Title: Rosie Revere Engineer
Author: Andrea Beaty
Illustrator: David Roberts

How to use this book in the classroom:

This story is about pursuing a passion with persistence and learning how to celebrate each failure on the road to achieving a dream. This is a great book to inform students about engineering and design because students follow a girl named Rosie who aspires to be an engineer, but is afraid of failure. With this story, you could have multiple different activities, where students are following the engineering design process, while they practice problem solving skills.]]> 2021-11-07 18:39:03 UTC https://padlet.com/madeyler/g4qfnljxds3waz3h/wish/1873197074 madeyler https://padlet.com/madeyler/g4qfnljxds3waz3h/wish/1873197337 Title: The Most Magnificent Thing 
Author: Ashley Spires

How to use this book in the classroom:

This book is following an unnamed girl and her best friend (a dog) who wants to invent the most magnificent thing. She knows how it will look and how it will work, but all she needs to do is make it. The one thing she realizes is that it is not easy peasy and she tries and fails multiple times. This is a great way to incorporate the engineering and design process into your classroom, where students can work their way through the process and if their creation fails, then they can go back and make corrections where it is needed. This is such an important aspect for students to learn because they are learning how to not give up, but also following a set of steps to help them along the way.]]> 2021-11-07 18:39:16 UTC https://padlet.com/madeyler/g4qfnljxds3waz3h/wish/1873197337 madeyler https://padlet.com/madeyler/g4qfnljxds3waz3h/wish/1873197768 Title: Newton and Me 
Author: Lynn Mayer
Illustrator:  Sherry Rogers

How to use this book in the classroom:

This book follows a young boy who discovers the laws of force and motion throughout his everyday activities. With this book, you can introduce the laws of force and motion by having students see that some of their everyday objects or materials that they use, can have some sense of force and motion. This is a great way to show students how to recognize how forces affect the objects around them. Forces and motion are mentioned in a lot of different grade levels and so providing the space to include this book into your classroom, allows your students to observe and experiment on their own. It is also a great way for students to digest real-world learning opportunities, which is a great way for them to use their everyday life, so explore and nurture science inquiry.]]> 2021-11-07 18:39:35 UTC https://padlet.com/madeyler/g4qfnljxds3waz3h/wish/1873197768 madeyler https://padlet.com/madeyler/g4qfnljxds3waz3h/wish/1873199190 Title: Olivia's Birds Saving the Gulf
Author: Olivia Bouler

How this book is used in the class:

This book follows a an 11 year-old girl that wants to make a difference after the Gulf Coast oil spill. She wrote a letter saying "11 years old and willing to help" offering her own bird paintings to raise contributions for the Gulf recovery efforts. This is a great way to introduce major events that happened in our history. One way I can incorporate alongside this book, is doing a STEM activity that helps inform students about oil spills. Such as having the students try and extract as much oil as they can, to save the animals.

]]> 2021-11-07 18:40:46 UTC https://padlet.com/madeyler/g4qfnljxds3waz3h/wish/1873199190 madeyler https://padlet.com/madeyler/g4qfnljxds3waz3h/wish/1873199553 Title: Things That Float and Things That Don't
Author: David Adler
Illustrator: Anna Raff

How to use this book in the classroom:

This book is a great way to help students understand forces and motion. Students are always so surprised when they understand what objects float and which one's don't. This story is a great way to introduce density and flotation in the classroom, which can be an easy way to bring STEM into your curriculum. ]]> 2021-11-07 18:41:04 UTC https://padlet.com/madeyler/g4qfnljxds3waz3h/wish/1873199553 madeyler https://padlet.com/madeyler/g4qfnljxds3waz3h/wish/1873200049 Title: Amazing Plant Powers; How Plants Fly, Fight, Hide, Hunt & Change the World
Author: Loreen Leedy and Andrew Schuerger

How to use this book in the classroom:

This book is a fun way to get students thinking about the amazing things that plants can do. It discusses how plants adapt and survive in a lot of different ways, depending on their environment. This book is a way to show why plants are so important and why we need them in our world. With this book, you can have students do a gardening activity, where they are able to watch their plants come to life and adapt to different climates of environments. STEM can go a lot of different ways with this book because eve though it is talking about plants, you could have students learn about different adaptations of animals and even stretching it so humans. The possibilities are endless. ]]> 2021-11-07 18:41:24 UTC https://padlet.com/madeyler/g4qfnljxds3waz3h/wish/1873200049 madeyler https://padlet.com/madeyler/g4qfnljxds3waz3h/wish/1873200369 Title: A Moon of my Own
Author: Jennifer Rustgi
Illustrator: Ashley White

How to use this book in the classroom:

Throughout this story, you are taken on an adventure with a young girl around the world. The moon is her companion and travels alongside her to seven different continents, that are marked by the moon''s phases. This imaginative book is a great way for students to be introduced to the phases of the moon. Even though the young girl was dreaming, students get to see that you are able to get creative and imagine different things, in order to help you learn. When students are more hands-on, interactive, and even just just visuals, this can really impact the way they learn in the classroom. With STEM, students can use globes to learn about different phases of the moon.]]> 2021-11-07 18:41:39 UTC https://padlet.com/madeyler/g4qfnljxds3waz3h/wish/1873200369 madeyler https://padlet.com/madeyler/g4qfnljxds3waz3h/wish/1873200696 Title: About Time
Author: Bruce Koscielniak

How to use this book in the classroom:

About time is a story about the many years it took to invent the art of telling time. In this story, it mentions how people started creating tools to measure time such as the sun, the moon, and the water. This book can be interdisciplinary with STEM instruction because it is showing students how to use their knowledge of the natural world to tell time. At the end, the author provides its readers with different activities, so they can dive deeper into the understanding of telling time.



]]> 2021-11-07 18:41:56 UTC https://padlet.com/madeyler/g4qfnljxds3waz3h/wish/1873200696 madeyler https://padlet.com/madeyler/g4qfnljxds3waz3h/wish/1873201073 Title: The Girl Who Thought in Pictures; The Story of Dr.Temple Grandin 
Author: Julia Finley Mosca
Illustrator: Daniel Rieley

How to use this book in the classroom:

The Girl Who Thought in Pictures follows Temple Grandin throughout her life. When Temple was young, she was diagnosed with autism and so no one believed that she would be capable of doing everyday tasks. Yet, she used her mind to connect with animals, which in return, helped her invent improvements for farms around the globe. This is a great way to teach students about critical thinking and also just allowing them to believe that they can do anything they put their minds to. When using this book, you could have students think of objects they would like to invent or even just doing more research on individuals who have overcome adversity and made an impact in the world. This story has endless possibilities in the classroom!]]> 2021-11-07 18:42:13 UTC https://padlet.com/madeyler/g4qfnljxds3waz3h/wish/1873201073 madeyler https://padlet.com/madeyler/g4qfnljxds3waz3h/wish/1873201373 Title: What if Everybody Did That?
Author: Ellen Javernick
Illustrator: Colleen M. Madden

How to use this book in the classroom:

This book is a way to show community and remembering that we all play a part in keeping our school, neighborhoods, and homes safe. If we decide to not think about those around us, then routines can become chaotic quickly. This book is not based around science, but I thought it would be fun to have students see what happens when you don't throw away trash, or you leave your food in different places. Having an activity like watching bread get old and moldy, is a way for students to record what they see each week and allowing them to get a better understanding of how to keep our society clean and working properly. This is also a book that promotes accountability because we all are responsible to do our part in the world and if we are not held accountable, things can slip away and our environment would not be a safe place. ]]> 2021-11-07 18:42:27 UTC https://padlet.com/madeyler/g4qfnljxds3waz3h/wish/1873201373 madeyler https://padlet.com/madeyler/g4qfnljxds3waz3h/wish/1873203468 Title: Ada Twist, Scientist
Author: Andrea Beaty
Illustrator: David Roberts

How to use it in the classroom:

This book is great to introduce problem solving skills. The major theme throughout the story is that there are problems to solve all around us. It follows a young girl named Ada Marie Twist who is driven by curiosity and inquiry, which allows her to be a true seeker and solver. This book is a great way for students to learn how to better be equipped with problem solving skills as they develop. When introducing this into the classroom, students are able to ask questions and investigate different ways to solve problems, which is beneficial for all students.

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