Enrich summer reading with connections to STEM and history! Here are ten books, both nonfiction and fiction, to link with Howtosmile.org activities about science and history around the world.
1) The Kite That Bridged Two Nations and SMILE's Sled Kite activity;
2) Lives of the Scientists: Experiments, Explosions and What the Neighbors Thought and SMILE's Building With Wonderful Junk;
3) Tutankhamun: The Mystery of the Boy King and SMILE's Tomb Mapping;
4) Maria's Comet and SMILE's Make a Model Comet and Eat It!;
5) What Color is My World: The Lost History of African-American Inventors and SMILE's Seeing is Believing;
6) George Washington, Spymaster and SMILE's George Washington's Secret Code;
7) Stowaway and SMILE's Maritime Munchies;
8) The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins and SMILE's Waterhouse Hawkins and the Nano Dinosphere Museum;
9) Castle and SMILE's Construction and Destruction;
10) The Emperor's Silent Army and SMILE's Building an Army.
For even more summer reading ideas, SMILE has more than 100 activities connecting literature and STEM.