Our students range from grades 9-12 and are from the small, rural community of Kingston, TN. They represent a diverse range of interests and home lives, and 17.8% are designated by the state as economically disadvantaged. That being said, cell phone- and internet-access at home is not always a given.
While the library provides access to many online academic databases to find articles for research, for many of our students print materials are still preferable and in some cases necessary, since they don't have a way to access online resources outside of school.
Although some time may be given during class in the computer labs, it is also often expected that students will work on research assignments from home. This fact magnifies the need for an updated print collection.
My Project
Our school library serves over 700 high school students and is a place where they come to find academic resources for class as well as materials for their personal reading pursuits. The current average age of our collection is older than the recommended state guidelines, and thus we are working to replace out-of-date materials with newer, more relevant titles. Our science non-fiction section is an area that needs significant improvement, and the books here would help to fill the gaps in the collection where newer titles are needed.
We believe that providing access to up-to-date, accessible, and quality titles is extremely important in helping students learn, and these titles will not only complement the science curriculum, but also provide opportunities to enhance comprehension and research skills that will be useful in high school as well as college.
These books have been specifically chosen to aid in research projects and essays, to appeal to specific interests in an engaging way, and/or to replace older titles that are no longer relevant and have been weeded.
The "pure science" section of our print collection has been identified as (1) having one of our oldest average copyright dates and (2) including titles that need updating more often as the scientific field changes so rapidly. While many of our students are interested in scientific topics, the image of our current collection on the shelves (with many older, worn-down books) can seem uninteresting at first glance.
With this in mind, I know our students would appreciate the updated materials and would be positively impacted by a newer science collection with books that are not falling apart and that include better content.
Plant Ecology (Green World (Chelsea House))
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Investigating Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes (Introduction to Earth Science)
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Secret Language of Color Science, Nature, History, Culture, Beauty of Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, & Violet
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Bees: A Natural History
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The Astronomy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Rivalry, Adventure, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (Young Readers Edition)
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Quantum Physics: What Everyone Needs to Know
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Genes: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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The Immune System: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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Big Data: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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Bacteria: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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The Cell: A Very Short Introduction
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Genomics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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Viruses: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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The Laws of Thermodynamics: A Very Short Introduction
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Blood: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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Agriculture: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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Astrophysics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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The Atmosphere: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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Oceans: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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Light: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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Computer Science: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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Nutrition: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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Organic Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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Cognitive Neuroscience: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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Marine Biology: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat: How Two Great Minds Battled Quantum Randomness to Create a Unified Theory of Physics
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Rocks: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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Silent Spring
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