Why use picture books to explore science?

Stories are a powerful way to introduce science to children. Researchers recommend using picture books to develop science skills and understandings because picture books:

• Provide a story context for science content
• Suggest manipulatives for a variety of science investigations
• Encourage children to recreate stories in their own way, as well as to practice science skills
• Pose problems that can be explored using various strategies
• Develop science concepts
• Encourage the use of science language
• Introduce new vocabulary
• Enhance phonological awareness through repetitive patterns, rhymes and refrains
• Introduce complex sentence structures
• Help children understand themselves and others
• Help children make sense of their world
• Encourage children to recreate stories in their own words

Stories bring science to life. They can help children learn how to use science skills and concepts to address their own real-life problems as they arise. At the same time, children are developing critical language development skills.

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