Science:

Be a KS3 science scholar by reading:

• Horrible Science – Chemical Chaos (Chemistry)

• Horrible Science – Blood, Bones and Body Bits (Biology)

• The Human Body Book by Steve Parker (Biology)

• The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf (Biology)

• Horrible Science – Fatal Forces and the Fight for Flight (Physics)

• Horrible Science – Shocking Electricity (Physics)

• The Usborne Illustrated Dictionary of Science (General)

• New Scientist – Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? (General)

• New Scientist – What Eats Wasps? (General)

• Bad Science by Ben Goldacre (General)

• It’s Not Rocket Science by Ben Millar (General)

 

Be a KS4 science scholar by reading:

               

               

• A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson (Human Biology)

• The British Medical Association Illustrated Medical Dictionary (Human Biology)

• The Human Body Book by Steve Parker (Human Biology)

• McMinn’s Colour Atlas of Human Anatomy (Human Biology)

• Creeping Killers: Extreme Plants (Extreme Biology) by Louise Spilsbury (Plant Biology)

• The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World
• from the Periodic Table of the Elements. Sam Kean  (Chemistry)

• Molecules: The Elements and the Architecture of Everything. Theodore Gray (Chemistry)

• The Science of Can and Can’t: A Physicist’s Journey (Physics)                                        

• Through the Land of Counterfactuals. Chiara Marletto (Physics)                                  

• Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Material that Shape Our Man-Made World. Mark Miodownik  (Physics)               

Be a KS5 science scholar by reading:

• McMinn’s Colour Atlas of Human Anatomy (Biology)

• The Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin and Richard Hawkins (Biology)

• The Double Helix  by James Watson  (Biology)

• Genome Matt Ridley (Biology)  

• Mutants  Armand Marie Leroi  (Biology)

• Adventures in Human Beings; Gavin Francis (Biology)

• Oxygen Nick Lane (Chemistry)

• The Periodic Table Primo Levi (Chemistry)

• Super Heavy Kit Chapman (Chemistry)

• The Elements Theodore Gray (Chemistry)

• The Shocking History of Phosphorus: A Biography of the Devil’s Element  John Emsley (Physics)

• A short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson  (Physics)

• Why don’t penguins’ feet freeze? – NewScientist  (Physics)

• The Quantum Universe: Everything that can happen does happen – Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw (Physics)