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Recommended Books
The best way to get students excited about invention is to provide loads of fabulously illustrated books on the topic. One of my new favorites is A Native American Thought of It: Amazing Inventions and Innovations
, by Rocky Landon and David MacDonald (Annick Press). By now we all know that moccasins, canoes, and snow shoes were invented by Native Americans, but how many of us knew that these amazingly adaptive people also created syringes, diapers, and hockey? This inviting book contains lots of awesome pictures and just enough information to get students hooked. Equally exciting is the companion book The Inuit Thought of It: Amazing Arctic Innovations
by Alootook Ipellie and David MacDonald (Annick Press). In a land where it rarely gets above freezing, and much of each apart of the year is spent in either 24 hour darkness or light, you need to be pretty clever in order to survive with the limited resources nature provides. In addition to being fantastic reads for an invention theme, both of these picture books fit in well with the theme of survival.
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Fabulous post, Keith, and so timely as we are finalizing our science curriculum review! Thank you so much for the resource on Native American contributions to science. Do you know of any similar books on scientific discoveries by African Americans & American Asians? All our students need to see themselves in what we teach...