{"id":2192,"date":"2010-01-18T16:01:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T21:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/2192"},"modified":"2010-01-18T16:01:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T21:01:50","slug":"teaching-process-skills-with-childrens-literature-amelia-bedelia-rocket-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2010\/01\/18\/teaching-process-skills-with-childrens-literature-amelia-bedelia-rocket-scientist\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Process Skills with Children’s Literature: Amelia Bedelia, Rocket Scientist?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Amelia Bedelia, Rocket Scientist?<\/em><\/a> written by Herman Parish and illustrated by Lynn Sweat, tells the tale of the day that Amelia Bedelia volunteers to be a judge at the science fair after her boss, Mr. Rodgers, mistakenly calls her a rocket scientist.<\/p>\n

While at the science fair Amelia Bedelia meets Dr. Dinglebatt, a professor, who will also be judging the science fair.\u00a0 While looking at the student’s projects Amelia Bedelia comes across a leaf blower that is used to demonstrate how a flying saucer flies, however the student’s model flying saucer is stuck in the basketball hoop so Amelia Bedelia uses her bonnet instead.\u00a0 Along the way Amelia Bedelia comes across a student, Jason, who forgot baking soda and vinegar for his model volcano, but lucky for him, Amelia Bedelia has some baking soda in her purse. While Jason goes to find some vinegar Amelia Bedelia decides to help him by adding the entire box of baking soda to the volcano.\u00a0 When the vinegar is added, the volcano makes a huge mess all over the room. To clean it up, Amelia Bedelia uses the leaf blower but ends up blowing the toupee right off Mr. Dinglebatt’s head!\u00a0 Mr Dinglebatt gets very upset with her and leaves the room. But he returns with a new invention inspired by Amelia Bedelia blowing his toupee off his head.\u00a0 All is forgiven and every eats the delicious pie Amelia Bedelia baked earlier that morning.<\/p>\n

Curriculum Connections<\/strong>
\nAmelia Bedelia, Rocket Scientist? <\/em>is suitable for 2nd though 4th graders and compliments Virigina SOL 2.1.\u00a0 It is written in the third person view.\u00a0 This book could easily be used to show how accidents and mistakes can lead to scientific discoveries.<\/p>\n

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