Gutsy Girls Go for Science: Astronauts: With STEM Projects for Kids (Gutsy Girls)
by Alicia Klepeis (Author) Hui Li (Illustrator)
Hands-on space science projects help launch kids ages 8 to 11 into learning about fearless female astronauts who broke barriers across space and gender in this full-color book full of real-world connections!
Do you dream of going into space? Do you wonder what it’s like on the moon? In Gutsy Girls Go for Science: Astronauts with STEM Projects for Kids, readers ages 8 through 11 explore the lives of some of the world’s most amazing female astronauts, including Bonnie Dunbar, Sally Ride, Mae Jemison, Sunita Williams, and Serena Auñón-Chancellor―all pioneers in the field of space exploration. Their hard work and dedication to science and experimentation gave the world much new knowledge about space, biology, and more. These brave women took risks and pushed the limits of what we know about life in space.
• Through hands-on STEM projects such as designing and building space rovers, rockets, and even a model of the International Space Station using inexpensive and easy-to-find supplies, kids gain critical thinking skills just like the ones necessary to succeed in space.
• Essential questions, cool facts about female scientists, and links to online resources all reinforce high-level learning.
• Using a fun narrative style, engaging illustrations combined with photography, fascinating facts, essential questions, and hands-on projects, this book deepens readers’ creative thinking skills.
About the Gutsy Girls Go for Science set and Nomad Press
Astronauts is part of a set of four Gutsy Girls Go for Science books that explore career connections for young scientists. The other titles in this series include Paleontologists, Engineers, and Programmers.
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Explore Makerspace! With 25 Great Projects
"Author Alicia Klepeis and illustrator Matt Aucoin demonstrate how a design and engineering center can work with ordinary materials and not much technology. . .Many of the activities, stand out in that they 1) are more open-ended than the typical classroom science lab session and 2) they employ more art. Ideally, given the materials and the book, students should be able to complete most of the "makerspace" projects with little if any teacher direction."
Alicia Klepeis loves to research fun and out-of-the-ordinary topics that bring the world to young readers--from amazing animals to extreme environments. Alicia began her career at the National Geographic Society. She is the author of more than 200 children's books, including Go Wild! Frogs; Gutsy Girls Go For Science: Astronauts; Polar Bears & Penguins: A Pretty Cool Introduction to the Arctic and Antarctic; and Secrets of the Forest: 15 Bedtime Stories Inspired By Nature. A former middle school teacher, Alicia loves doing school visits. She lives with her family in upstate New York.
Kaja Kajfez was born in a small, charming city of Varazdin, Croatia. She developed a love of drawing as a child - her mum used to draw with her for hours which really sparked her interest in illustration. Besides doing her dream job, Kaja loves to take long walks in nature, explore different historical periods, scroll through old picture books, listen to online concerts, and spend time with her dog.JNF007120 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Women
JNF051010 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology | Aeronautics, Astronautics & Space Science
JNF023000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Girls & Women
Women astronauts
Astronauts
Astronautics
Ride, Sally
Jemison, Mae
Dunbar, Bonnie J
Williams, Sunita
Aunon-Chancellor, Serena M
