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Science's Biggest Mistakes about the Human Body

From the Series Science Gets It Wrong

  • Interest Level: Grade 4 - Grade 6
  • Reading Level: Grade 4

Do your eyes send out light like headlights? Does your liver create blood? Do bumps on your head tell what’s inside your brain? At one time, science supported wild notions like these! But later studies proved these ideas were nonsense. Discover science’s biggest mistakes and oddest assumptions about the human body, and see how scientific thought changed over time.

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Interest Level Grade 4 - Grade 6
Reading Level Grade 4
Genre Science
Category STEM, STEM: Interdisciplinary
Copyright 2015
Publisher Lerner Publishing Group
Imprint Lerner Publications ™
Language English
Number of Pages 32
Publication Date 2015-08-01
Reading Counts! Level 5.7
Text Type Informational/Explanatory
BISACS JNF051190, JNF051050, JNF051030
Dewey 610.9
Graphics Full-color illustrations
Dimensions 6.125 x 9.25
Lexile 880
Guided Reading Level X
ATOS Reading Level 5.9
Accelerated Reader® Quiz 166517
Accelerated Reader® Points 1.0
Features Bibliography/further reading, Index, Photo captions, Reviewed, Table of contents, Teaching Guides, and eSource

Reviews

School Library Connection

“This series is very entertaining while teaching science; it will appeal to all types of readers.”—School Library Connection

Booklist

“This pithy book, from the Science Gets It Wrong series, gives readers a look at some of the mistaken notions that seem amusing now but resulted in untold deaths…. Source notes and a bibliography will lead on students, many of whose curiosities will be piqued.” —Booklist

School Library Journal, Series Made Simple

“Concise narratives work well with photos and graphic images to convey the history of scientific thought while reminding readers that with advancements in science and technology, today’s facts could just as easily be proven inaccurate in the future.” —School Library Journal, Series Made Simple