Month: April 2021

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Water Sports at the Paralympics

Water Sports at the Paralympics
by Matt Bowers (Author)
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Booktalk: A photo-illustrated book for elementary readers about Paralympic swimming, canoe, and rowing events. Includes descriptions of each of these men’s and women’s water sports. Readers will be introduced to some rules and how they differ from their Olympic counterpart.

Snippet: The Summer Paralympic Games are full of exciting sports. Every four years, athletes with a disability compete at the highest level. They come from around the world. They are hoping to win a gold medal.

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Nature Did It First

Nature Did It First: Engineering Through Biomimicry
by Karen Ansberry (Author) and Jennifer DiRubbio (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Explore the ways we have looked to nature for brilliant new designs and innovations to solve our own conundrums. Each example in nature is paired with a rhyming description, an example of how it has been used by us, and a question to the reader–“what other problems can be solved?”

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It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

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