Category: middle grade

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Leaf Litter Critters

Leaf Litter Critters
by Leslie Bulion (Author) and Robert Meganck (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Nineteen poems in a variety of verse forms with accompanying science notes take readers on a decomposer safari through the “brown food web,” from bacteria through tardigrades and on to rove beetle predators with other busy recyclers in-between. Glossary, hands-on investigations, and resources are included in the back matter.

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A 2018 Cybils Poetry nominee

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

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Family Trees

My new Focus on STEM column: Family Trees is in the December Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries newsletter.

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Talking about inherited family traits is a given whenever families gather. Traits are analyzed and compared across the generations with photos and family stories. Prepare students for text-to-self connection of their own inherited family traits during the winter break with these new animal books.

Click here to read Family Trees with eight #kidlit science books that support the Next Generation Science Standard for Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits in the classroom, the library, and at home!

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

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