16th August Science Week

It is Science Week! If I was at school there would be a wonderful display of books for students to borrow, but we are home in lockdown. Today while planning lessons and locating poems that had a science focus, I thought of all the wonderful poetry books on the shelves at school that would have been helpful.

Here's a list:

* Spectacular Science by Lee Bennett Hopkins

* Our Big Home  by Linda Glaser and Elisa Kleven

* Thank You Earth by April Pulley Sayre 

  

* Volcano Wakes Up by Lisa Westberg Peters and Steve Jenkins

* Earthshake  by Lisa Westberg Peters and Cathie Felstead

* Ubiquitous by Joyce Sidman and Beckie Prange

* Red Sings from the Treetops by Joyce Sidman and Pamela Zagarenski

* Dark Emperor by Joyce Sidman and Rick Allen (in fact nearly anything by Joyce Sidman)

* Anything by Helen Frost and Rick Lieder

* Anything by Douglas Florian

* A Leaf Can Be

* Water Can Be

* A Rock Can Be  by Laura Salas

 

26th April Richter Scale Day

Richter Scale Day. This occasion is an acknowledgement and celebration of the birthday of the man who taught the world how to measure earthquakes – Charles F. Richter. He was born in 1900 and came up with the Richter Scale in 1935 while he was working at the California Institute of Technology. Since then, the world has been able to compare various earthquakes and investigate their relative power for destruction. The worst earthquake occurred in Chile in 1960 and it measured 9.5 on the Richter Scale.

Books about earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, rocks and the earth are among the most borrowed non fiction books after dinosaurs, transport and biographies so the library has a large selection. Earthshake is a stunning collection of poems about the earth and Moo and Moo and the Little Calf Too is a picture book story based upon a real situation created by the 2016 magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Christchurch New Zealand.