“On the other side of the planet, where the sun isn't shining, you can see bright lights, like little stars all over it's surface.“
“On the other side of the planet, where the sun isn't shining, you can see bright lights, like little stars all over it's surface.“
I would love to use this book in my future classroom. With current curriculums I feel it's hard to find time in the day to provide students with meaningful science lessons. This book would do just that and encourage children to be curious. Great opportunity to also tie in STEM content.
pickThis is a very creative and engaging book that will push children to be curious. It shows children how big the world around us is and encourages them to think outside the box. Overall, a very beautiful story with colorful illustrations.
pickSoft pick for me - an scientific history of how our understanding of gravity has changed from Newton to Einstein to quantum theory to string theory. A little background in physics is helpful, but expertise is not needed (I took an intro level college class in 2007, so…). Some sections dragged a bit (the chapter on tides 🫠), but I thought the last third was a great intro to quantum theory and string theory, which I knew very little about.
“The whole world is filled with big, enormous, gigantic, humongous, incredible numbers“.
Great way to incorporate STEM into the classroom as well as learning amazing facts about the world.
pickNon-fiction, 2017. This story explores the vastness of the universe by presenting incredibly large numbers, like the estimated number of stars in existence - a hundred billion trillion - and using relatable comparisons to help young readers grasp just how big that is
“But Newton made another approximation to crank out predictions from his theory of gravity. He assumed that the Sun alone pulls on Earth, and the Earth alone pulls on the Moon. The breakdown of this assumption can be seen in the case of the tides, where both the Moon and the Sun affect the Earth. And this is a general feature of the real world: bodies are pulled on by more than one other body.”
Needed to get out of the house, so I‘m enjoying an egg and cheese biscuit and iced tea while starting a new book 📖 Might take a little stroll later to enjoy the nice weather ☀️
Our world is full of constantly changing numbers, from a hundred billion trillion stars in space to thirty-seven billion rabbits on Earth.
