Andi DiehnReseñas

Geared for younger kids, focusing on how forces are at work in everday life.

Independent Reading Level Grades (K-2)

This book, I would recommend this to my younger groups. This book would be a great fit for a science classroom because it allows students to observe and consider the different forces that they encounter on a daily basis. this book shows detailed vocabulary, great illustrations, and easy science experiments as well! I really enjoyed this book, and so would future students!

I would like to have this entire collection. This is a good book to teach the basics on the types of energy and how they work. I would highly recommend this for kids being introduced to science in school. A good informational resource for young kids.

This book sums up matter in a way that is able to be understood by a younger audience. Matter can be a hard subject to understand and so this book can help guide the students' thoughts and understanding. The books helps my understanding as an adult so I'm sure akid could and will benefit from this as well.

If I were to teach science this would be a great book to read. I loved the fun that was incorporated, and how it made it much easier to learn about forces. I also like that the book focused on different forces and not just one. The forces that it included were friction, magnetism, gravity, and how they worked in our everyday lives.

I thought this was a great science book for younger grades. This book teaches kids what matter is, and the book gives great examples. The book is also interactive, and gets the kids thinking about real life examples of matter.

The book is easy to read, contains many examples students can relate, and the ideas are easily understood. In addition, the pictures are very colorful and detailed. The characters in the book are diverse. Since force can be a pretty hard topic for some students to understand, this book would be great to read before the lesson or after to sum everything up.

This book teaches the reader about the different kinds of forces. Instead of focusing on one specific force (gravity, magnetism, friction, etc.) this book gives an overview of how forces work in our every day lives. I liked how it used examples like bicycles, soccer, tug-of-war, and jumping for the reader to relate to. These examples allowed the reader to apply their knowledge to something outside of the book. Next time they ride a bike, jump, ride in a car, or see force in action somewhere else, they'll know the physical science behind it. I would use this book in a lesson about forces to introduce the different kinds and get students thinking about forces in our world. It's a difficult concept for young learners to wrap their heads around, but this book made it easier to understand and apply to real life.

This book tells the story of Dorothy Vaughan, a computer programmer and decoder, who was also featured in the movie Hidden Figures. Her story is so important for many reasons- she was an advocate for civil rights, womens rights, and expanding womens' roles in science. Until her role, science had been a male-dominated industry for so long, specifically the field of aeronautics. Dorothy helped put a man in space, and her legacy has inspired women worldwide to use their talents to contribute to science. I would incorporate this story into a math unit, possibly for 3rd or 4th graders. Great book!

This book tells the story of female paleontologist Mary Leakey. She was a pioneer in the field of anthropology and is credited with discovering what is purported to be one of the first skeletons of apes related to man. Her work led the way for many anthropologists after her, who would go on the make many more historical discoveries. This would be a great book to work into a Science unit, perhaps involving dinosaurs and the theory of evolution. It was a fun read! I appreciated that it focused on her work and her intellect, which is critical to showcasing her contributions as a woman in science.

Computer Decoder is a picture book about a computer scientist named Dorothy Vaughan; she was a human-computer, meaning numbers made sense to her. Later in life, Dorothy received a job at Langly Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory as a human-computer. She understood the numbers and complicated calculations, but the segregation which took place did not make sense to her; however, she did not let that stop her from achieving her goals. Dorothy soon became the first African American supervisor at Langly and later became an expert at writing computer code for NASA. I LOVED THIS BOOK! I rated this book five stars out of five because I love the story of Dorothy Vaughan and all that she accomplished in her life during times when segregation was prevalent in American society. I would use this storybook to introduce the Jim Crow Laws and discrimination in my fifth through seventh-grade classroom. One thing I noticed was the phrase, "This made sense to her," bolded throughout the story. I think this phrase is a detail the author tried to make apparent throughout the book. Dorothy could understand complicated things, like numbers and computer codes, however, segregation was one thing that did not make any sense and was something that should not be occurring in society at the time. After seeing the movie Hidden Figures, I fell in love with Dorothy Vaughan and the other women who helped send men to space, and this is a book that I look forward to having in my classroom.

The book Forces Physical Science for Kids is exactly what I would use to incorporate literature into a science lesson. This is such a fun book to read. I like how there are jokes throughout the book which add a little entertainment to the book and helps to keep the students engaged. I would love to have my students experiment with magnets and then answer the questions in the Try This section of the magnet page. I also love how the books use real life examples that the students can relate to. I’m excited to read the other books in the series.

An introduction to different forms of energy including heat, light, and chemical energy. Using practical ideas and simple experiments this title would be a great STEM introduction for a classroom. Part picture book part science for kids ages 5-8. I enjoyed the kid friendly nature of this series.

An early introduction to physical science for kids. With easy to understand language the idea of force is explained. The book is filled with several kid relate-able ideas of force such as using a swing to explain push force and a bicycle to explain friction. For ages 5 to 8.

After a brief introduction about the history of technology, this book goes on to discuss three women in particular that have impacted or are impacting technology as we know it. Grace Hopper worked for the Navy in the early days of computers, Shaundra Bryant Daily currently teaches computer programming to students, and Jean Yang is getting her doctorate's degree and planning to be a professor in computer science. This book is interesting and could be appealing to upper elementary students who are interested in technology or computing. I gave it a three star rating because I had trouble with the formatting on the pages. There are visual cues to let you know what chapter you are in and call-outs with additional information, but overall I felt that everything was given equal weight, resulting in a clutter that made it hard for my eyes to rest in any one place. There is minimal white space and it's written almost like a non-fiction chapter book. The call-outs and additional information areas competed for attention with the primary text, without any clear hierarchy.

Thank you to the publishers for a review copy of this book.

This is an engaging, accessible and interesting introduction to Shakespeare and his plays. Aimed at 12-15- year-olds, the book is a great way of making Shakespeare interesting and relevant to today, with sections that bring Shakespeare forward into today's popular culture, making connections to novels and movies that use his plays as source material. It gives a very comprehensive and short (by necessity) overview of his life and times, and delves into 4 of the plays, offering overviews, themes, timelines, activities, a cute comic-strip story, and lots of online resources and smart phone scans for students who want a multi-media Shakespeare experience.

One glaring, inexcusable misreading of Shakespeare's language needs to be mentioned (and fixed by the publishers!): in one of the comic strips, a character paraphrases the "wherefore art thou Romeo" line as "wherefore art thine brains," clearly misusing the word "wherefore" to mean "where." As the author surely must know, "wherefore" means "why"!

This is an informational book about poetry. This book falls under the informational category because it gives you a detailed description for young children to learn about the many different forms of poetry and gives literary techniques such as personification and alliteration. I could use this book in the classroom to talk about what makes up a poetry book and use this to introduce the subject. I could also use this to introduce new topics and bigger words such as what a personification is and how to apply it to your school work in writing. The media in this book is computer graphics.