2000s - Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 - Handy Topics in the Curriculum Department - Research Guides at University of Nebraska Kearney (UNK)

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 2009

Archaeology, Anthropology, and Paleontology

Biography

Earth and Space Science

Environment and Ecology

Health Science

All about sleep from A to ZZZZ
Dr. Frankenstein's human body book : the monstrous truth about how your body works
Food as foe: nutrition and eating disorders
Outbreak : science seeks safeguards for global health

Life Science

Physical Science

Car science

Technology and Engineering

Cool stuff exploded : get inside modern technology

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 2008

Archaeology, Anthropology, and Paleontology

Biography

Earth and Space Science

Environment and Ecology

Over the mountains : an aerial view of geology

Health and Science

Life Science

Physical Science

Rockets

Technology and Engineering

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 2007

Archaeology, Anthropology, and Paleontology

Dinosaur atlas: an amazing journey through a lost world
Little people and a lost world : an anthropological mystery

Biography

Earth and Space Science

Environment and Ecology

Here is the tropical rain forest

Health and Science

Life Science

Butterfly eyes and other secrets of the meadow
Deadly invaders : virus outbreaks around the world, from Marburg fever to avian flu
Double helix : the quest to uncover the structure of DNA
Horses
Influenza : the next pandemic?
Oh, rats! : the story of rats and people
Parasites : latching on to a free lunch
Kingfisher voyages. Rainforest
Skunks
Slippery, slimy baby frogs
Sponges, jellyfish & other simple animals
Turtle crossing
What stinks?
Wild lives: a history of the people and animals of the Bronx Zoo
The wolf, night howler

Physical Science

Atomic universe: the quest to discover radioactivity

Science-Related Careers

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 2006

Archaeology, Anthropology, and Paleontology

Biography

Earth and Space Science

Environment and Ecology

The least of these : wild baby bird rescue stories

Ficiton

Code Orange

Life Science

Physical Science

The elements : what you really want to know

Technology & Engineering

Built to last : building America's amazing bridges, dams, tunnels, and skyscrapers

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 2005

Archaeology, Anthropology, and Paleontology

Feathered dinosaurs of China

Biography

American women inventors
The boy who drew birds : a story of John James Audubon
The burn journals
The flower hunter: William Bartram, America's first naturalist
Linus Pauling: advancing science, advocating peace
Maria Mitchell: the soul of an astronomer
Marie Curie: a brilliant life

Earth and Space Science

Are we alone? scientists search for life in space
Forces of nature: the awesome power of volcanoes, earthquakes, and tornadoes
Pterosaurs : rulers of the skies in the dinosaur age
Rocket man: the Mercury adventure of John Glenn
Scholastic atlas of weather
T. Rex

Environment and Ecology

Endangered planet
Arrowhawk
Following the coast
Forest explorer: a life-sized field guide
Garden of the spirit bear : life in the great northern rainforest
Looking for seabirds : journal from an Alaskan voyage
Nature in the neighborhood
One small place in a tree
The race to save the Lord God Bird
The golden moon bear : science and adventure in the Asian tropics
The temperate forest: a web of life

Life Science

Movers & shapers : bones, muscles, and joints
Decoding life: unraveling the mysteries of the genome
Eliza and the dragonfly
The human story: our evolution from prehistoric ancestors to today
Lizards
Outside and inside killer bees
Snakes!
Spiders and their webs
The tarantula scientist
Tigers

Physical Science

I fall down

Technology and Engineering

Fantastic feats and failures

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 2004

Archaeology, Anthropology, and Paleontology

Biography

Benjamin Banneker: pioneering scientist
Darwin and evolution for kids : his life and ideas, with 21 activities
Dr. Charles Drew : blood bank innovator
First to fly : how Wilbur & Orville Wright invented the airplane
Into the woods : John James Audubon lives his dream
The man who made time travel
Niels Bohr: physicist and humanitarian
Rachel : the story of Rachel Carson
Rider in the sky: how an American cowboy built England's first airplane
Tooth and claw: animal adventures in the wild
The tree of life : a book depicting the life of Charles Darwin, naturalist, geologist & thinker

Earth and Space Science

Environment and Ecology

Life Scientist

101 questions about sex and sexuality-- : with answers for the curious, cautious, and confused
About arachnids : a guide for children
An American plague : the true and terrifying story of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793
Amphibians, reptiles, and their conservation
Antarctic ice
Brilliant bees
Ebola virus
Eyes and ears
Fabulous fluttering tropical butterflies
Genes & DNA
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Organ and tissue transplants: medical miracles and challenges
Plants on the trail with Lewis and Clark
Sea horses
Snake pits, talking cures & magic bullets : a history of mental illness
Butterfly
Spinning spiders

Physical Science

Dyes: from sea snails to synthetics
Eureka! : great inventions and how they happened
The incredible record-setting deep-sea dive of the bathysphere
The wondrous whirligig: the Wright Brothers' first flying machine

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 2003

Archaeology, Anthropology, and Paleontology

5,000 year old puzzle: solving a mystery of ancient Egypt
Fossil fish found alive : discovering the coelacanth
Secrets from the rocks: dinosaur hunting with Roy Chapman Andrews
Supercroc and the origin of the crocodiles

Biography

Copernicus: founder of modern astronomy
To fly : the story of the Wright brothers
Dr. Jenner and the speckled monster: the search for the smallpox vaccine
Inventing the future: a photobiography of Thomas Alva Edison

Environment and Ecology

Life Science

Butterflies in the garden
Birds build nests
Field trips: bug hunting, animal tracking, bird watching, shore walking with Jim Arnosky
Dolphins
From egg to butterfly
Giant pandas
Growing up wild: penguins
Human body revealed
Honeybees
Ladybugs : red, fiery, and bright
Once I knew a spider
Paisano, the roadrunner
Penguin chick
Phineas Gage : a gruesome but true story about brain science
Pond
Raptor!: a kid's guide to birds of prey
They call me Woolly: what animal names can tell us
Water hole waiting

Physical Science

What does a wheel do

Science-Related Careers

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 2002

Archaeology, Anthropology, and Paleontology

Biography

Charles Darwin : the life of a revolutionary thinker
Jonas Salk: conquering polio
Rocks in his head

Life Sciences

Integrated Science

Physical Science

Science-Related Careers

Technology and Engineering

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 2001

Archaeology, Anthropology, and Paleontology

A dinosaur named Sue : the story of the colossal fossil : the world's most complete T. rex

Biography

Earth and Space Science

Cloud dance
Dr. Art's guide to planet Earth : for earthlings ages 12 to 120
Earth's fiery fury
The International Space Station
The Reader's Digest children's atlas of the universe

Environment and Ecology

Butternut Hollow Pond
Crab moon
Forest in the clouds
A handful of dirt
Marine mammal preservation
Our big home: an earth poem
River of life
The spirit of the Maasai man
Spring thaw
This is the tree
Wild and swampy

Life Science

The rabbit
Dandelions : stars in the grass
Elephant quest
Gorillas
Jellies : the life of jellyfish
The Kingfisher book of evolution
Leaping grasshoppers
Meeting dolphins: my adventures in the sea
My season with penguins : an Antarctic journal
National Geographic animal encyclopedia
Sea critters
Slinky, scaly, slithery snakes
Slugs
Tiger math : learning to graph from a baby tiger

Physical Science

Building big

Science-Related Careers

Technology and Engineering

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 2000

Biography

A picture book of George Washington Carver
Science in the Renaissance

Earth and Space Science

Environment and Ecology

Shelterwood

Interated Science

Life Science

A is for-- ? : a photographer's alphabet of animals
Animal defenses : how animals protect themselves
Around the world: who's been here?
Baby whale's journey
Bananas!
The barn owl
Bizarre birds
Crawdad Creek
Crocodiles & alligators
Dandelions
Dive! : my adventures in the deep frontier
The emperor's egg
Exploding ants : amazing facts about how animals adapt
Gorilla walk
Hello, fish!: vising the coral reef
Here is the African savanna
My cheetah family
National Audubon Society first field guide. Trees
Once a wolf : how wildlife biologists fought to bring back the gray wolf
Outside and inside kangaroos
A pill bug's life
The pumpkin book
Red-eyed tree frog
Snake
A symphony of whales
Where are the night animals?

Physical Science

Technology and Engineering

How the future began. Communications

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