Encourage students to enjoy learning STEM concepts with these imaginative fiction and nonfiction titles. ByScholastic Editors April 2, 2024 Grades PreK - 8 Robots are fascinating to adults and kids alike, and for good reason: They're cool, and can accomplish remarkable tasks. From smaller robots...
Science fiction is a form of fiction that deals principally with the impact of actual or imagined science upon society or individuals. The term ‘science fiction’ was popularized, if not invented, in the 1920s by one of the genre’s principal advocates,
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From the tin man of Oz searching for a heart, to human-Cylon romances in Battlestar Galactica, speculative fiction is fascinated by robots' capacity for love. The Defy the Stars Trilogy by Claudia Gray is a compelling space opera about the connection between Noemi Vidal, an insurgent determine...
Adapted from Isaac Asimov's classic collection of short stories, I, Robot is a thrilling sci-fi action film set in a future where robots coexist with humans under strict programming guidelines known as "The Three Laws of Robotics." Starring Will Smith as Detective Del Spooner, who investigates...
(robots) and the certainties that were impossible. Importantly, Kobie has a very finely-tuned sense of humor that she employs with great discretion. Failurecanbe funny, but is best tempered by an appreciation forchutzpahthat turns into overreach. The upshot is that the book manages the ...
Robots replacing us is not the most significant threat to humankind. Our reluctance for reinvention is. We live in a world where AI runs things, and it is about to transform every aspect of life. While we live in fear of what AI can do, machine intelligence raises an essential question;...
It’s about getting kids hooked on a certain science fiction series or character to demonstrate the pure fun of reading a story that is out of this world. These science fiction books take kids on wonderful adventures as they travel through space and time with aliens, robots, and out of thi...
robots, uploaded into one huge mainframe brain. But not all robots are willing to cede their individuality—their personality—for the sake of a greater, stronger, higher power. These intrepid resisters are outcasts; solo machines wandering among various underground outposts who have formed into a...
Kanpeki! In this day and age of robots and AI, it’s nice to remember that anything made with love is indeed perfect! [picture book, ages 4 and up] Soul Lanterns by Shaw Kuzki Twelve-year-old Nozomi lives in Hiroshima many decades after it was attacked with a nuclear bomb. Every ...