Biographies hold so much value when teaching science. I’ve seen it over and over again with my own kids. (They have been the guinea pigs for all of my science study.) It never fails — we can use a rather hard biography, like Crucibles, and years later they will remember every scientific principle that was presented, while they can’t remember anything from the “list-of-facts book” two hours later. There are several reasons why I think this is the case, which I explain the article Living Science Through the Lives of Scientists.

Today I thought I would take a few minutes to share some of my very favorite science biographies. Continue reading →