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Desperate Librarians... a Few New Ideas to Share with Children by Judy Freeman NOVELIST Desperate Librarians or . A Few Ideas to Share With Children, Fall 2015, STEAMing Along with Books Desperate Librarians... A Few New Ideas to Share with Children by Judy Freeman STEAM­ing Along with Books Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math! We celebrate these in our schools and libraries nowadays. While we revel in revelatory nonfiction for the left sides of our children's brains, we also find ways to integrate art, music, and imagination for the right sides. The inventions and discoveries unveiled in these exceptional informational and biographical picture books are balanced with an ongoing truth, exemplified in B.J. Novak's fall­on­the­floor­in­hysterics picture book, The Book with No Pictures: Whatever you're reading aloud, you must Always Read with Expression! In this article... Mysterious Patterns: Finding Fractals in Nature by Sarah C. Campbell The Book with No Pictures by B.J. Novak Locomotive by Brian Floca Mr. Ferris and His Wheel by Kathryn Gibbs Davis The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos by Deborah Heiligman For each title below, you'll find a summary and then a series of what I call "Germs" ­­ small, pithy, useful, do­ able ideas you can "germinate" as you see fit and integrate into your own story hours or lesson plans. These might include worksheets, writing prompts, songs, creative drama activities, craft suggestions, or ways to use the book across the school curriculum. Next is a list of related titles, arranged thematically, that you can pull together for units, read­alouds, read­alones, or book discussion sessions, or to hand out to children when they ask, "Do you have another good book as good as the one you just read to us?" Science Mysterious patterns: finding fractals in nature By: Sarah C. Campbell, illus. by Sarah C. Campbell and Richard P. Campbell Boyds Mills, 2014 Grades 1 ­ 6 Investigate fractals, natural shapes in nature ­­ from flowers to riverbeds to lightning ­­ in which each shape consists of smaller parts that look like the whole. With the movie "Frozen" a hot­ticket item for children, who still sing "Let It Go" with unrelenting gusto, what kid doesn't recognize this line? "My soul is spiraling in frozen fractals all around." Do they know what fractals are? Probably not. Here's a book that explains what Elsa was singing about. When Common Core says to use more nonfiction with kids, this is just what we're looking for: a book that explains an unfamiliar concept so elegantly and clearly that it changes the way you look at the world. The simple but illuminative, informational narrative is paired with dramatic, full­page color photographs that explore a type of shape that wasn't even named until 1975, when French mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot (1924­2010) coined it as part of his study of natural shapes. In a fractal, each shape has smaller parts that look like the whole. After a brief look at common geometric shapes, both manmade and in nature, the text proceeds to describe other natural shapes that are "rough, bristly, and bumpy," including a stalk of broccoli, a fern frond, and a tree. Each irregular shape subdivides into smaller and smaller parts in repeating patterns that mirror the whole structure. Other fractals discussed include lightning, the Colorado River, the Grand Tetons, and even our lungs. In response, children will start looking for fractals all around them. Germ for Mysterious Patterns: Finding Fractals in Nature There are no other books on the subject for children as of now, and this one, with its clear, concise writing is a keeper. You'll also want to pair it with the author's terrific companion book, Growing Patterns: Fibonacci Numbers in Nature. Back matter includes directions on how to make your own Sierpinski triangle (which grades 4­6 will enjoy reading about in Shelley Pearsall's novel, All of the Above, about a seventh grade class's attempts to build the world's biggest paper pyramid, a "Stage 7" Sierpinski tetrahedron). There's also a one­page bio of Mandelbrot written by Michael Frame, a math professor at Yale who worked with him for many years, which includes a few facts about manmade structures that are fractals, including the wiring of the Internet and air conditioners. In an intriguing explanation of a radar invisibility cloak, there is this startling statement: "Harry Potter's invisibility cloak would have been made of fractals." Wow! You will find Benoit Mandelbrot's 2010 TED talk, "Fractals and the Art of Roughness" to be utterly fascinating: www.ted.com/talks/benoit_mandelbrot_fractals_the_art_of_roughness?language=en. Though it's mostly too technical for children, you can show excerpts and let them get to meet this brilliant and engaging man, known as "the father of fractals." For a simpler look at fractals, try "Fractals in Nature" at www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZL0SLf04yM. Check out this fabulous website, fractalfoundation.org, a real public service for educators and students, with the subtitle "Inspiring Interest in Science, Math, and Art." You'll find videos, photos, student work, photographs, lesson plans, a blog, and more. Here's what they say about themselves: "The Fractal Foundation was formed in 2003, as an outgrowth of the Albuquerque based "Chaos Club." Since then, we have taught fractals to over 24,000 children and 15,000 adults. Based in Albuquerque, most of our activities have thus far taken place in New Mexico, but they continue to spiral outward and upward." You can explore the mathematics­based Mandelbrot set and 23 other fractals when you download the free XaoS software that allows kids (and adults) to zoom in or out of fractals. Aesthetically, looking at examples of a Mandelbrot zoom is positively psychedelic and beautiful, integrating science, math, technology, and art. Observing the wondrous connections there are between nature on Earth and throughout the universe (a spiral shell, a spiral in a sunflower, a spiral in the human inner ear, a hurricane, a spiral galaxy) is a humbling and fascinating experience for us all. Other Books by Sarah C. Campbell Campbell, Sarah C. Growing Patterns: Fibonacci Numbers in Nature. Boyds Mills, 2010. Campbell, Sarah C. Wolfsnail: A Backyard Predator. Boyds Mills, 2008. Other Books about Patterns in Nature and Math Esbensen, Barbara Juster. Echoes for the Eye: Poems to Celebrate Patterns in Nature. HarperCollins, 1996. Franco, Betsy. Bees, Snails, & Peacock Tails: Patterns and Shapes . Naturally. McElderry, 2008. Pearsall, Shelley. All of the Above. Little, Brown, 2006. Sidman, Joyce. Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature. Houghton Mifflin, 2011. Technology and Art The book with no pictures By: B. J. Novak Dial, 2014 Grades Preschool ­ 4 "It might seem like no fun to have someone read you a book with no pictures. It probably seems boring and serious." Not true ­­ this is the funniest book of the year! Introduce this title to your children thusly: "You know how we've looked at many picture books with no words, such as Tuesday by David Wiesner and all of his other books, where the pictures tell the whole story? Well, today, we're going to look at a picture book with no pictures. No, not a chapter book with no pictures. You know what that looks like. I'm going to read to you a picture book with no pictures. No pictures at all. Have you ever seen a picture book like that? No? There's always a first time." Then hold up the all­ white cover, on which is printed, in huge black type, The Book with No Pictures, and, in smaller blue letters at the bottom, the author's name. That's it. No cover picture. Chaos will ensue when you open this outrageously ridiculous picture book that is bereft of illustrations but filled with a whole lot of crazy words you are going to have to read OUT LOUD and with a STRAIGHT FACE while your gasping listeners roll on the floor in hysterics. I'm giving you a heads­up here so you know what to expect. As it states, in an oversized, bold, serif font, set against a stark white background, "This is a book with no pictures. It might seem like no fun to have someone read you a book with no pictures. It probably seems boring and serious. Except . Here is how books work: Everything the words say, the person reading the book has to say." And that is where the subversive part begins. The unseen narrator puts words on the page ­­ "BLORK" and "BLUURF" and "I am a monkey who taught myself to read" ­­ that you, the grown­up, have to read out loud, "No matter what." The book makes you sing a stupid song, tricks you into saying the word "BooBooButt" aloud, and ends up with an entire double­page spread of very silly nonsense words that you have no choice but to read out loud. With expression. And when you finish, the kids are going to make you read it all over again. Germ for The Book with No Pictures Because there are no illustrations, the use of interesting and colorful fonts and their arrangement on the page become a substitute for the pictures. If you're smart, and if your kids are old enough to read, make them read the book aloud, one pair per page, while you sit back and laugh. It's only fair. You can use the book as an introduction to the importance of reading aloud and a mini­lesson on how and why to always read with expression. Children can also do illustrations for the book.
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