Gutsy Girls Go for Science: Programmers: With STEM Projects for Kids (Gutsy Girls)

by Karen Bush Gibson (Author) Hui Li (Illustrator)

Gutsy Girls Go for Science: Programmers: With STEM Projects for Kids (Gutsy Girls)
Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade
Series: Gutsy Girls

Real-world technology projects pair up with inspiring biographies of female computer scientists to make a full-color book that will have kids ages 8 to 11 eager to develop their own apps!

Do you like solving problems? Are you dying to automate even the simplest of processes? Do you always need to know how things work? Programming is the process of breaking down complex tasks into a set of instructions. This is what programmers do when they write code that will make your computer do what you tell it to! In Gutsy Girls Go for Science: Programmers with STEM Projects for Kids, readers ages 8 to 11 meet five female programmers who made revolutionary discoveries and inventions that changed the way people used technology! Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper, the ENIAC women, Dorothy Vaughan, and Margaret Hamilton all broke through barriers of both gender and race to succeed in a field they loved.

• Through hands-on STEM projects such as designing a web page, creating a prototype, and learning about variables, kids gain critical thinking skills just like the ones necessary to succeed in the field.

• Essential questions, cool facts about female programmers, 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.

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Praise for Technology: Cool Women Who Code from the Girls in Science series

National Science Teachers Association Recommends
"Coding is extremely popular with students now as they work to develop games and apps to meet the common social and gaming interests. Written like a magazine with short reading areas followed by "Ask & Answer" essential questions, the book focuses on reading comprehension and reasoning skills while also teaching about technology then and now. . . This book is anything but dull and definitely not 'textbooky'".
Karen Bush Gibson

Karen Bush Gibson is the author of more than 30 nonfiction books for children and a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. One of her books about women aviators was named a 2014 Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People by the NCSS and a selection in Air & Space/Smithsonian's Best Children's Books of 2013 roundup of aviation and space-themed books. Karen lives in Norman, Oklahoma.

Shululu (Hui Li) has always been driven by curiosity. She received a PhD in computational chemistry from the University of Chicago and is the illustrator of the Physical Science for Kids set of nonfiction picture books from Nomad Press. She is devoted to bringing joy and science to young readers through fun illustrations! She lives with her husband in New York, New York.

Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781619307896
Lexile Measure
870
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Nomad Press (VT)
Publication date
September 24, 2019
Series
Gutsy Girls
BISAC categories
JNF007090 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology
JNF007120 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Women
JNF051110 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Experiments & Projects
JNF023000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Girls & Women
JNF012040 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Computers | Programming
Library of Congress categories
Experiments
Computer science
Lovelace, Ada King
Women computer programmers
Computer programming
Hopper, Grace Murray
Computer programmers
Vaughan, Dorothy
Hamilton, Margaret Heafield
ENIAC (Computer)

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