Fictional Stories in Science
Using Fictional Stories as a Pathway to Science Content
Month: January 2017
Tap Tap BOOM BOOM
This story really heightens the awareness of the music of rain. Tap. Tap. BOOM. BOOM! Using various font, the rain comes down on a city as individuals, kids, and families move from place to place…picking up their pace. Some are prepared, some aren’t. Many… Continue Reading “Tap Tap BOOM BOOM”
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“Big Rain Coming”
It seems that we all have a meteorologist (or two) in our family. I am not talking about those that are featured on the news or in the newspaper, or those that like to make sporadic predictions about the weather, but those in our… Continue Reading ““Big Rain Coming””
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Fiction and Non-fiction?
Ok, this one leans more towards non-fiction, but it has a fictional flow. With its predicted text of “I like the rain because…” the story part takes you through a community to learn why they all like the rain, each, of course, with their… Continue Reading “Fiction and Non-fiction?”
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Featured Book:Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai
I am so glad I sat down today and took a long moment to read this book. When I selected it from the library, through an online search, the words “trees” and “Kenya” caught my eye, as I hoped it would offer a widen… Continue Reading “Featured Book:Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai”
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Rain, Rain, Rain: Three Multicultural Books About Rain
I know, instead of rain, rain, rain, it should be snow, snow, snow (at least it is in my part of the country), but in an earlier post I mentioned how I had learned about a few multicultural fictional stories that feature rain…here are… Continue Reading “Rain, Rain, Rain: Three Multicultural Books About Rain”
Fictional Stories in Science 