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Q. What is STEM?<\/strong>
\nA.<\/strong> STEM<\/strong> is S<\/strong>cience, T<\/strong>echnology, E<\/strong>ngineering, and M<\/strong>athematics.<\/p>\n

I have been writing about STEM for years. I didn’t know it was STEM at the time. It’s just how I grew up.<\/p>\n

My father’s parents built P-51 Mustangs during World War II. Yes, my grandmother was a Rosie the Riveter<\/a> lady! That experience became my first book Air Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Air<\/a><\/p>\n

My mother’s father worked for the railroad and that inspired my book Window Music<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Window<\/a><\/p>\n

My father was a missile tracker in the early days of NASA<\/a>. We started at the very beginning with the Mercury<\/a> and Gemini missions. When I was a child we watched the astronauts as they went into space on our tiny black-and-white television. Then we ran into the back yard and watched that little ball of fire rise into the sky until it disappeared. Years later we proudly watched the Apollo 11<\/a> astronauts land on the moon. I wrote about it in my book Man on the Moon<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Man<\/a><\/p>\n

My first three books were about STEM and the journeys it made possible. Today I write about STEM for children, teens, and adults. I started writing about<\/em> STEM books on STEM Friday, a meme I created in 2011. At first I wrote about these books on my own Booktalking #kidlit blog (now archived<\/a> on this site). Others wanted to do the same, so I created a group STEM Friday<\/a> blog.<\/p>\n

\"STEM<\/a><\/p>\n

I also write about STEM books in my Focus on STEM<\/em> column for Booklist<\/em><\/a>. In 2013-2014, I wrote the LibrarySparks<\/em><\/a> Grow with STEM<\/em> column with co-author Shirley Duke<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"teach.stem.med\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Our STEM book for librarians, Teaching STEM and Common Core with Mentor Texts: Collaborative Lesson Plans K-5<\/a><\/em> came out with Libraries Unlimited in December, 2013. (Shirley taught science for 25 years, so we had a great time writing about what we love!) You can sample the book and see our resource lists on the Teaching STEM<\/a> blog.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Follow Anastasia’s board Teaching STEM on Pinterest.<\/a>