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Getting to Know the World's Greatest Scientists & Inventors
Albert Einstein
Meet renowned physicist Albert Einstein! Getting to Know the World's Greatest Inventors and Scientists series combines a delightful mix of full-color historical reproductions, photos, and hilarious cartoon-style illustrations that bring to life the work and contributions of renowned scientists and inventors, combining poignant anecdotes with important factual information for readers (Ages 8-9).This book presents the life and accomplishments of the renowned physicist, discussing his theory of relativity and the ways in which it transformed the world's understanding about how the universe works.
32 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2008
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April 5, 2021
The Getting to Know… book series by Mike Venezia, are perfect for elementary and middle school students and a must have for all such libraries and classrooms. This series on the inventors and scientists make science fun for young readers with its humorous cartoons and interesting easy to follow facts. In this addition, we learn about the first science superstar Albert Einstein whose complex theories continue to propel scientist in their research.
October 21, 2013
Title: Albert Einstein: Universal Genius by Mike Venizia
Focus: Non-Fiction/Informational
1) Sequence: This text is a timeline of Albert Einstein’s life.
Review:
Albert Einstein: Universal Genius is about the life of Albert Einstein. This book tells about Einstein’s childhood in Germany and how he was different from his peers because he preferred to "think on the universe." It tells about how he left Germany and came to the United States. He became an US citizen and taught at Harvard. Einstein was saddened by the use of his discovery to create the atomic bomb. He spoke against the use of atomic weapons.
TEACH: CCSS
W.5.3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
Mini-Lesson:
I will read our mentor text to the student. We will discuss the structure of the text and how the author slows do at different places in Einstein’s life to convey information. We will discuss how to determine the information that needs to be included in a timeline of one’s life. Students will draw a concept map to brainstorm various events in their lives that they will want to include in their life timelines. Students will then create timelines of their lives. This lesson will extend over several days so that students can interview family members and bring photos in to add to their timelines.
Expected Outcome:
Students will learn how to collect information about events in their lives to give an effective overview of their lives. Students will learn how to slow down at various parts of their timelines to give descriptive details about life changing events or memorable moments. Students will be able to determine if text has a sequence structure.
Focus: Non-Fiction/Informational
1) Sequence: This text is a timeline of Albert Einstein’s life.
Review:
Albert Einstein: Universal Genius is about the life of Albert Einstein. This book tells about Einstein’s childhood in Germany and how he was different from his peers because he preferred to "think on the universe." It tells about how he left Germany and came to the United States. He became an US citizen and taught at Harvard. Einstein was saddened by the use of his discovery to create the atomic bomb. He spoke against the use of atomic weapons.
TEACH: CCSS
W.5.3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
Mini-Lesson:
I will read our mentor text to the student. We will discuss the structure of the text and how the author slows do at different places in Einstein’s life to convey information. We will discuss how to determine the information that needs to be included in a timeline of one’s life. Students will draw a concept map to brainstorm various events in their lives that they will want to include in their life timelines. Students will then create timelines of their lives. This lesson will extend over several days so that students can interview family members and bring photos in to add to their timelines.
Expected Outcome:
Students will learn how to collect information about events in their lives to give an effective overview of their lives. Students will learn how to slow down at various parts of their timelines to give descriptive details about life changing events or memorable moments. Students will be able to determine if text has a sequence structure.
December 14, 2015
Well I personal think this book was one of the best iv'e ever read it's very interesting too.This book may be short but I thought it was cool that Einstein did all these cool different things.He also did make a lot of theories but he referred to them as think bubbles.But a lot of Einstein's theories were used for destruction. Overall this was a great book and I hope for all that read it will enjoy it. :3
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July 1, 2010Every student received this book as an end of the year (2009) present from the school. When we came back together in January, we began studying science, creativity and Albert Einstein.
April 24, 2017
The reasons why this book was great is because it kept us as a book club interested and for others they felt as if the book was not given enough information about Albert Einsteins lifetime. The book itself was not that explicit on how he died we need more information about how he died.The illustrations with cartoons was very interesting they kept us entertained and they were funny. It was an easy read and it was full of facts and it had actually pictures of his life time.
All in all it was a fun book to read with funny comics it keeps your attention and is a great book to read.We would recommend this book to 3rd through 5th graders,because the vocabulary is more for their age.
All in all it was a fun book to read with funny comics it keeps your attention and is a great book to read.We would recommend this book to 3rd through 5th graders,because the vocabulary is more for their age.
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