Hi all, I am Agueda Gras, Scientix Project Manager. I am looking forward to finding out which are the 8 Science books selected by the Ambassadors!

Thanks! I am looking forward to World Book Day

Hi
I am Mladen Sljivovic from Serbia. And I alredz used ideas from book sin mz class . I hope to see how this will go, and I am so curious what book did thezy choose.

Hello I'm Riccardo Bellé from Italy. I teach mathematics and physics in high school in Massa (MS). I'm going to rea: - Janice VanCleave's Engineering for Every Kid: Easy Activities That Make Learning Science Fun

and

- Uncle Tungsten


I've already read (in italian) The Number Devil (Il mago dei numeri) and The Parrot's Theorem (il teorema del pappagallo). I usually recommend these books to my pupils at the beginning of the year.

Bye, very good idea!

PS: I recommend to english readers The periodic table by Primo Levi a very good book. (think about it for the next year edition of SDW)

http://www.radio3.rai.it/dl/portali/site/articolo/ContentItem-d2323af2-eba0-4b1b-8035-f35dab61c46f.html

for those who can understand italian "Il sistema periodico" at the third radio channel Radio3

Riccardo Bellé

Congratulations on this great initiative.
It is important to encourage reading (and specifically the scientific reading) if we want that young people develop a critical capacity. I have read almost all this books, but I will read all, sure!
I take this opportunity to recommend two excellent books (I always buy several copies, one for me and one for my students) although currently in Spanish.
The first is "Amundsen - Scott, duelo en la Antártida: La carrera al Polo Sur", by Javier Cacho Gómez. This book highlights values such as effort, tenacity, teamwork ...
The second, by a great team of disseminating scientists (Carlos Briones, Alberto Fernández Soto, José María Berúdez de Castro): "Orígenes. El universo, la vida, los humanos" tells us everything that has happened since the origin of the Universe to this day, through the emergence of life and human evolution.
Best!

Hello I am primary school teacher from Ankara Turkey.  

ENGINEERING FOR EVERY KID: EASY ACTIVITIES THAT MAKE LEARNING SCIENCE FUN

my book.

Hi,
I'm Costantina I teach Chemistry, Biology and Natural scienze in Higt school.
I know A brief history of time and use it in my first class because I teach also astronomy and use Cap 3 The Expanding Universe in an activity called "Cooperative learning resource sharing".
The book is very interesting but complicate for students but  they are attracted by the universe, the origin and the theories "The universe is expanding or deflation?"
I divided cap 3 in different part  ( part 1-, part 2....par3.....) and every students have a specific part.
The student tries to understand his part, all students with the same number speak each other to clarify.
I create 5 groups  with different numbers and each group creates a schema on various scientists and on the various theories on Universe.
It may also be used This book cap 3 to study the stars (chemical composition, temperature, light, spectrum, Doppler effect).
Best
Costantina

Hello!

I'm Teresa Paiva, from Lisbon, Portugal!
I'm a Physics and Chemistry teacher at a private school, and I always like to teach science in a STEAM (the A from any Art)  environment - Literature is one of the Arts I prefer...
The most emblematic Portuguese poet is Luís Vaz Camões ("our" Shakespeare, or Cervantes, or  Dante...), from the XVI century. (By that time Portugal was the Global Village – see, please, The First Global Village: How Portugal Changed the World, by Martin Page)
The  first poem published by Camões, in a "book" from a physician living in Goa, India, Garcia de Orta, is, precisely about Science (Medicine)! This poem was published in 1563, by a German, Johann von Enden - so , you see, very global, by that time! The poem can be read here http://www.jornaldepoesia.jor.br/camoes65.html, but, sorry, in Portuguese old language.

The Portuguese physics and chemistry teachers who love literature are very lucky, because we have a contemporary poet, with a pseudonym, António Gedeão, who was a Physics and Chemistry teacher, Rómulo de Carvalho – you can read here some poems in an English translation J https://www.behance.net/gallery/10350221/Antonio-Gedeao-PoemasPoems.
So, I choose the Oliver Sacks book, I’m reading now, to participate in this so interesting contest, because I didn’t know it, and it’s about Chemistry, the topic I’m teaching at the moment to mine 9 th grade students. I already read at the Forum the mention to Primo Levi, and, according to me, the book “The Periodic System” should be compulsory to all secondary level science students… I presented already in a Chemical Meeting of Teachers, in Portugal, a work, done by a student – “Chemistry and Philosophy in the Periodic System, by Primo Levi”.
This Sunday, the World Book Day, I’ll go to the gardens of Gulbenkian Foundation, to read “Oncle W”, in the Portuguese version – and, for sure, I’ll do a break visiting again the great exhibition of another very interesting Portuguese Modern Artist, Almada Negreiros. With my 8th grade students, who are studing acoustic and optics, we will do a Project work: “Sound and Light in O amanhecer do dia claro (“Daybreak of clear day”, my translation…), from Almada Negreiros”. If any colleague comes to Portugal soon, please visit exhibition. Of course, you can always take a look here: https://gulbenkian.pt/cam/en/current-exhibitions/ -It’s amazing  how scientists worked to promote Art, and how artists promote ScienceJ! In the end Science is a kind of Art, isn’t it?
Good readings, good work!
Teresa
 

Hello Robert, Agueda and everybody!
Three of the books that were selected are between my favourite books, and I will follow the discussion in next days.
There is one more book, that I would like to suggest, even if it will not be in the competition. It is a new book, but it is already famous. Every girl would have to read it ;)
I've just finished reading it both in English and in Italian, and I've already brought it at school:

"Good night stories for rebel girls" - E.Favilli, F.Cavallo
http://a.co/2V0ggU0



Best regards,Tullia

Hi everyone,
I´m Rosa Luisa and I´m from Portugal.
I am very glad to be part of this community.
I am a primary teacher and I usually teaches sciences at school.
The book I chosed was "A brief history of time" by Stephen Hawking because Hawking writes in non-technical terms about the structure, origin, development and eventual fate of the universe, which is the object of study of astronomy and modern physics. He talks about basic concepts like space and time, basic building blocks that make up the universe. Space Awareness courses has been so amazing to develop some of the principal subjects on astronomy and sciences in primary school through some amazing activities.

Many thanks
Rosa

Hello, colleagues! I am Roumiana Anguelova from Bulgaria. I teach Mathematics and Informatics in Vocational School of Economics and Management, Pazardzhik. I have the book THE NUMBER DEVIL: A MATHEMATICAL ADVENTURE in my library and  offen in our Classroom we read and discuss separate chapters.
Using the ideas of this wonderfull book we organized a workshop THE FIBONACCI NUMBERS, and competition MATH FACTOR.
Thank you Scientix staff for your passion and hard work !   <3

Dear friends,
My name is Daniela Bunea and I am a teacher of English as a Foreign Language at a secondary school in Sibiu, Romania. I have always been interested in science, and I always try to make my students appreciate it.
Daniela.

Science Book

The notions from Stephen Hawking's book could be put into practice in the classroom by making multimedia materials, posters, posters, where students could work on groups, and various projects could be developed to allow pupils to work on groups about:
Promoting astronomy in teaching,
Stars, comets, how the universe was born, what effects produce eclipses to health, astrophysics, why the stars fall, through using , WWTelescope, Salsai and more can be used.

Hi!
I am Noelia Velasco, a trainee teacher of Secondary school, Jesus-Maria School in Burgos (Spain). I have already used some of the books´resources in my lessons of STEM subjects. I would also like to congratulate for this interesting project and the list of educational resources and comments which are being shared in this forum.

In particulary, I have developed some activities related to the book: "Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a chemical boyhood". 
http://www.scientix.eu/events/campaigns/sdw17/cat3/-/message_boards/message/604196

Furthermore, I want to recommend an interested Spanish book, which could be usefull to amplify this repository, it is titled "Ciencia para Nicolás", written by Carlos Chordá, a scientist teacher at Secondary school, who tells a guide around the word of science, directed to ones of his students, Nicolás. The book shows scientist information since diffenrent angles to approach the students´points of view and knowledge, it represents an excelent way to introduce and exlpain most important scientific topics.

Hello my friends!!!
My name is Stella.I am from Israel. I work both as a Stem teacher and as science teachers' trainer. nice to meet all of you in this forum!
I am going to suggest a lesson plan ( about 3 lessons)
About Ender's game book!!!
I will be glad to hear your feedback!!!
Stella

Hello,
I am Tsetsa Tsolva Hristova from Bulgaria. I am one of Scientix ambasador for my country. My school is computer school, but I have a students like very much Astronomy.
My favorite subject is Astronomy and I am so happy to have possibilities to learn from other colleagues and to share my classroom ideas with you. I use A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking at school and shared my ideas with you at Share your classroom ideas here .
Thank you for all great ideas, shared for this book.
Kind regards,
Tsetsa

Hello. My name is Nelly Stoyanova. I am from Bulgaria and I am a teacher in Mathematics, Informatics and Information Technologies. The book "THE NUMBER DEVIL" provokes many ideas for working with students. I will share some of them at the forum and I hope you will like them. I will be happy to learn about your ideas and will try to accomplish them.

Hello,
I teach ICT and Informatics at the Technical College Latcu Voda in Siret, Romania. I like reading but it is the first time that I will create some activities for my students going from literature books. Some of the books for the competition aren't translated in Romanian yet and a lot of the Scientix colleagues presented as very interesting so I' ll try to read them later in English.