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They lived on an island off the coast of Thailand, in a fishing village on stilts. Put the three together and the story comes to life of an engineering feat by boys who wanted nothing more than play soccer. Author Scott Riley is an avid soccer fan, and Nguyen Quang and Kim Lien are Vietnamese illustrators who draw on the folk culture of Asian countries in their artwork. The Floating Field: How a Group of Thai Boys Built Their Own Soccer Field (1921). The Good Garden (Katie Smith Milway and Sylvie Daigneault, 2010), the story of a family in Honduras who learns to terrace their land and rotate crops, creating a more sustainable agriculture system and enabling them to be independent of the unscrupulous money lender. The result was a reversal of the damage done by deforestation from mining and the creation of a sustainable system that benefits women and girls.
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Other outstanding STEM-related titles in the series include:ġ11 Trees (Rina Singh and Marianne Ferrer, 2020), the story of how one man convinced his village in India to plant 111 trees to celebrate (and elevate) the birth of every girl. Safe cooking also frees up women and girls from having to collect fuel, allowing them time to go to school or work in other ways to provide for their families. They also do not contribute to pollution which is a health hazard. Solar cookstoves do not emit gasses into the environment.
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The story of Iqbal illustrates important benefits for sustainability both for the environment and for his family. The goal of the collection is to inform readers about the world and inspire them to be better global citizens. This book is part of the CitizenKid collection by Kids Can Press. Now his mother has safe smokeless cooking tools for both inside (propane power) and outside (solar power). With the prize money he is able to purchase a propane stove that is smokeless. After much thought and research, Iqbal creates a solar-powered stove using a foil-covered broken umbrella to trap the energy of the sun’s rays. Both his mother and sister are coughing more and more because of the smoke lingering in the house. But the impact on her health and that of his baby sister is worrying Iqbal and his family. She cannot cook outside because of the monsoon rains. His family’s health concern drives his inquiry: his mother cooks everyday over an open wood fire in the house. The competition theme is sustainability and environmental health.
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He loves learning and this year he has thought of a problem he would like to solve for the science competition which has prize money that would help his family. Iqbal and His Ingenious Idea: How a Science Project Helps One Family and the Planet (2018) is the story of a young adolescent from Bangladesh. But what about true stories that demonstrate the same characteristics? There are several I would like to profile. Eventually, with the help of 21 other rabbits and their spinning ears (i.e., helicopter blades), the little rabbit is airborne in controlled flight!īoth of these fictional stories deal with problem-solving and perseverance. Through multiple attempts including lots of glued-on feathers and a trampoline with bouncy balls, the rabbit resists packing away his dream.
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In a similar story, Turkish author-illustrator Basak Agaoglu portrays a small rabbit’s dream of flying as an Almost Impossible Thing (2017). This is a wonderful book that explores the sheer frustration (and anger) of multiple failures, but the joy of ultimately finding the answer. In The Most Magnificent Thing by Canadian Ashley Spires (2014) a young girl and her valiant assistant (her pug) try design after design for a scooter-sidecar before discovering that parts of each design pointed them toward the design that finally worked. Two picturebooks illustrate that can-do spirit that makes people persevere and try out different ideas. So this week we are going to look at global stories of people taking action to solve a STEM-related problem.Īgency takes drive, creative thinking, and the powerful belief that one’s actions can have a positive outcome. By Susan Corapi, Trinity International University, Deerfield, ILĪs a teacher, professor, parent and grandparent, I want children, teens and adults to develop a sense of agency–the belief that they can take actions that will impact their world.