This picture book biography tells the story of Meg Lowman, a groundbreaking female scientist called a “real life Lorax” by National Geographic, who was determined to investigate the marvelous, undiscovered world of the rainforest treetops. Meg Lowman was always fascinated by the natural world above her head — the colors, the branches, and, most of all, the leaves and mysterious organisms living there. Meg set out to climb up and investigate the rain forest tree canopies — and to be the first scientist to do so. But she encountered challenge after challenge. Male teachers would not let her into their classrooms, the high canopy was difficult to get to, and worst of all, people were logging and clearing the forests. Meg never gave up or gave in. She studied, invented, and persevered, not only creating a future for herself as a scientist, but making sure that the rainforests had a future as well.
This amazing informative Earth Day book can be used in speech therapy to address social/emotional issues like overcoming obstacles to reach your dreams. It is also great for noticing illustrations and for targeting vocabulary, inferencing, describing and character analysis as well as for /m/, /g/, /r/, /f/, /or/ and /st/ sounds! Discover more of the speech and language teaching concepts for using The Leaf Detective: How Margaret Lowman Uncovered Secrets in the Rainforest in speech therapy below:
