Key Stage 3 Recommended Reads

Secret Science: The Amazing World Beyond Your Eyes by Dara O'Briain

You've got your incredible brain, which has worked out how to read these words and make playing a video game feel as EXCITING as real life; you've got aeroplanes that can somehow get from the ground into the sky with all those people AND their luggage on board; you've got electricity and artificial intelligence and GPS and buses coming in threes (that's science too) and LOADS more. In Secret Science, Dara O Briain takes you on a journey from the comfort of your favourite chair to the incredible science behind your everyday life and on into the future!

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers who changed the world by Rachel Ignotofsky

It's a scientific fact: Women rock! This fascinating, educational collection features 50 illustrated portraits of trailblazing women in STEM throughout history.Full of striking, singular art, Women in Science also contains infographics about relevant topics such as lab equipment, rates of women currently working in STEM fields, and an illustrated scientific glossary. The trailblazing women profiled include such pioneers as primatologist Jane Goodall and mathematician Katherine Johnson, who calculated the trajectory of the 1969 Apollo 11 mission to the moon.

 

Key Stage 4 Recommended Reads

Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table by Kit Chapman

In a globe-trotting adventure that stretches from the United States to Russia, Sweden to Australia, Superheavy is your guide to the amazing science filling in the missing pieces of the periodic table. By the end you'll not only marvel at how nuclear science has changed our lives - you'll wonder where it's going to take us in the future.

 

 

 

 

What Einstein Told His Barber: More Scientific Answers to Everyday Questions by Robert L.Wolke

Arranged in a question-and-answer format and grouped by subject for browsing ease, What Einstein Told His Barber is for anyone who ever pondered such things as why colours fade in sunlight, what happens to the rubber from worn-out tires, what makes red-hot objects glow red, and other scientific curiosities.

 

 

 

 

 

The Joy of Science by Jim Al-Khalili

Discussing the nature of truth and uncertainty, the role of doubt, the pros and cons of simplification, the value of guarding against bias, the importance of evidence-based thinking, and more, Al-Khalili shows how the powerful ideas at the heart of the scientific method are deeply relevant to the complicated times we live in and the difficult choices we make. Read this book and discover the joy of science. It will empower you to think more objectively, see through the fog of your own pre-existing beliefs, and lead a more fulfilling life.