It isn’t enough for us to teach sets of facts for given scientific topics. It’s our job to stoke young imaginations as well.
Douglas E. Richards writes science pieces for National Geographic KIDS magazine and is the author of the critically acclaimed science fiction thrillers THE PROMETHEUS PROJECT - TRAPPED and THE PROMETHEUS PROJECT - CAPTURED for kids 9-13. TRAPPED is listed as recommended literature for math and science by the California Department of Education and has been called "perfect for middle grades" by Teaching PreK-8 Magazine. Both books have been praised by the AAAS and numerous state science teacher associations. Richards has a master's degree in molecular biology.
