Maybe You! (eBook)

Poems and Plays For Science As Inquiry

Brod Bagert (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019 | 1., Paperback
50 Seiten
Living Road Press, LLC (Verlag)
978-1-7321515-6-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Maybe You!

Entertaining, Instructional, and Comprehensive

My brain is like a great white shark

always hunting knowledge in the dark.

So shout it—CURIOSITY!

Yes that is how you measure me.

from “My Curious Brain”

Young minds will shift into overdrive as they encounter the history, philosophy, and principles of scientific inquiry—all irresistibly packed in this poignant yet comical collection of dramatic poems, monologues, and short plays.

Calling on the time-honored principle that children remember “90% of what they do in dramatic presentation,” Maybe You! is the first book in the long-awaited Brod Bagert’s HeART of Science series, providing parents, teachers, and young learners with a comprehensive compendium of dramatic content literature, both entertaining and instructional.

In “On the Field with the Pros,” Tamara experiences the thrill of conducting her own research to debunk the myth of the Egyptian crocodile bird. In “New Brain Magic,” Caroline and Javier explore the elements of critical thinking as they collaborate to concoct a magic potion “to turn normal brains into brilliant scientific wonders.” And in “Real Monsters,” a child discovers the revelatory power of scientific instruments when observing dust mites and maggots, through a microscope, and concludes that real monsters do indeed exist, “but they’re very, very small.”

The essence of curiosity, the joy of critical thinking, the power of the scientific method, the tools of science, the relationship between technology and scientific discovery,  publication and peer review, the progression of scientific knowledge with each generation “standing on the shoulders of Giants,” it’s all here.

The collection concludes with “Knowledge in Motion,” which describes the progression from Newton’s revolutionary Laws of Motion to Einstein’s even more revolutionary Theory of Special Relativity and drives to an empowering conclusion: 

So you see how our knowledge keeps inching along.

It seems perfect today, but tomorrow it’s wrong.

And who will be next to propose something new?

First Newton, then Einstein, and next…Maybe you?

from “Knowledge in Motion”

Inhalt

Good and Goofy   Teachers as artists and the power of content literature

Someone Just Like You   Young people with questions as the next generation of scientists

Tinker-Thinker   Relationship between tools and science

Time Master   Telling time and the relationship between engineering and scientific discovery

Stinky Feet   An unflattering survey of the US system of measurement

The Joy of “10”   A flattering presentation of the metric system

Real Monsters   Scientific tools extending the reach of human senses

My Curious Brain   Curiosity as the engine of scientific discovery

Open Up  Learning to question published material: books, Internet, etc.

The Calculus Battle   Dual discovery in science and math as a scientific tool

Questions and Answers   Asking questions as the threshold of discovery

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants   Publication, peer review, replication of results

On the Field with the Pros   An example of critical thinking debunking a historic scientific myth

Sorry Bird   Reason vs. Authority

Detention, an A+ in Science, and My Reggae Teacher   Scientific inquiry by the numbers

A Pendulum Surprise   Learning from “failed” experiments

New Brain Magic   Scientific inquiry played out in a magical incantation

Marriage of Pure and Chore   A science and technology sonnet

Progress   Application of science and aesthetics

Mad Scientist   A playful introduction into ethical questions and the application of science

Knowledge in Motion   Science as an ever growing, self-correcting continuum

An Invitation to You

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.6.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Brod Bagert's Heart of Science
• Reihe/Serie: Brod Bagert's Heart of Science
• Illustrationen: Natalia King
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Kinderbücher bis 11 Jahre
• Schlagworte: Children books • homeschool • K-12 • Poetry • Science • science education • Scientific Method • Teaching science
• ISBN-10: 1-7321515-6-3 / 1732151563
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7321515-6-7 / 9781732151567