More picture-perfect science lessons: using children's books to guide inquiry, K-4

Why read picture books in science class?

Reading aloud

Teaching science through inquiry

BSCS 5E instructional model

National science education standards

Bubbles

Bubble, bubble and pop! a book about bubbles

How big is a foot?

How big is a foot? and how tall, how short, how faraway

Hear your heart

Hear your heart and The busy body book : a kid's guide to fitness

Loco beans

Lucas and his loco beans : a bilingual tale of the Mexican jumping bean

Wiggling worms

Diary of a worm and Wiggling worms at work

Over in the ocean

Over in the ocean : in a coral reef and Coral reef animals

Be a friend to trees

Our tree named Steve and Be a friend to trees

That magnetic dog

That magnetic dog and Magnetic and nonmagnetic

Roller coasters

Roller coaster and I fall down

Mirror, mirror

What did they see? and I see myself

If you find a rock

If you find a rock and Rocks : hard, soft, smooth, and rough

Sunshine on my shoulders

Sunshine on my shoulders

Stargazers

When I heard the learn'd astronomer and Spots of light : a book about stars

Imaginative inventions

Imaginative inventions and Leo Cockroach, toy tester

A sense of wonder

John Muir, America's naturalist, Rachel Carson : preserving a sense of wonder, and The important book.