Category: middle grade

Engines!: With 25 Science Projects for Kids
by Donna McKinney (Author) and Tom Casteel (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: From ancient times to now, engines have powered the activities of people’s lives. Readers ages 7 to 10 can explore engines through hands-on STEM projects including building a catapult, a milk-carton conveyor belt, and a magnet-powered car. QR codes link to videos online.

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

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Inside In: X-Rays of Nature’s Hidden World
by Jan Paul Schutten (Author), Arie van ‘t Riet (Illustrator), and Laura Watkinson (Translator)
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Booktalk: Arie van ‘t Riet is a Dutch artist and medical physicist who uses X-ray equipment to create “bioramas”–X-ray portraits of animals and plants. While teaching the physics of radiation and radiation safety, he became interested in the application of low-energy X-rays to capture delicate objects. Now you can discover nature’s secret world with this collection of X-ray photographs of animals and plants!

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

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