When It Comes to Science, We Don't Horse Around!


To complement our science program in first grade, we use many wonderful literature selections. Each section of this page has books that will fit into a certain science unit. At this time, I've only included science themes that are covered in our current science program. Good luck in finding something you can use!
Insects
I Can't Said the Ant (P. Cameron)
Chirping Crickets (M. Berger)
The Ladybug (First Discovery)
Icky Bug Alphabet Book (J. Pallotta)
Insects are my Life (M. McDonald)
Amazing World of Butterflies and Moths (L. Sabin)
Bugs (N. Parker)
A Bug's Life (Disney)
Fireflies Light My Way (J. London)
Look...A Butterfly (Troll)
Bugs, Beetles and Butterflies (H. Ziefert)
Spider Names (S. Canizares)
Life of a Butterfly (R. Bernard)
Extremely Weird Insects
The Bug Book (Golden)
Monarch Butterflies (G. Gibbons)
Ant-ics (C. Hepworth)
What's Inside Insects?
Butterflies and Moths (J. Mattern)
The Big Bug Book (M. Facklam)
Ladybug (B. Watts)
Ant Cities (A. Dorros)
Hey Little Ant! (Hoose)
512 Ants on Sullivan Street (Hello Reader)
Know it All Bugs (C. Nicholas)
Best Book of Bugs (C. Llewellyn)
Insects (c. MacLuich)
Insects and Spiders in 3D
Mr. Bumblebee (K. Kennedy)
Little Red Ant and Great Big Crumb (S. Climo)
Ladybug's Ball (H. Feldman)
Snug Bug (Easy Reader)
Ant and Grasshopper
Very Hungry Caterpillar (E. Carle)
Very Quiet Cricket
Very Bus Spider
Very Lonely Firefly
Plants
How a Seed Grows (Jordan)
All About Seeds (Berger)
All About Seeds (Troll)
How Leaves Change (Maestro)
Autumn Leaves (Robbins)
One Bean (Rockwell)
The Tiny Seed (Carle)
Rosie Plants a Radish (Polly)
The Gardener (Stuart)
The Plant Sitter (Zion)

Magnets and Matter

What is the World Made of? (Weidner)
Amazing Magnets (Adler)
Mr. Fixit's Magnet Machine (Scarry)
Junior Science Magnets (Jennings)
What Magnets Do (Fowler)
What Makes Magnets? (Branley)
All About Magnets (Krensky)
Magnets (Victor)
Rocks and Soil

 Magic School Bus Inside the Earth (Cole)
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (Steig)
Let's Go Rock Collecting (Gans)
Rocks are Everywhere (Cerbus)
Stone Soup (McGovern)
Who Do We have Rocks and Mountains? (Llewellyn)
Everybody Needs a Rock (Baylor)
The Wretched Stone (van Allsburg)
Milo and the Magical Stones (Pfister)
The Sun and Shadows
One Light, One Sun (Raffi)
Energy from the Sun (Fowler)
Sun (Larson)
The Sun Book (Bass)
The Sun - Our Daytime Star (Moncure)
Our Friend the Sun (Troll)
What Makes a Shadow?
Light and Shadow

These titles are a mixture of factual, informational books and fictional stories.

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