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My new Focus on STEM column: Making Models is in the November Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries newsletter.

Snippet:
Fall is here, and with the colder weather comes the yearly science fair. It’s time for students of all ages to think of a new way to solve an old problem and then test their ideas. To plan their experiments and to share their results, these young scientists will need to develop models.

Click here to read Making Models with eight #kidlit science books that support the Next Generation Science Standard for Developing and Using Models in the classroom and library.

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

Martin Rising: Requiem For a King
by Andrea Davis Pinkney (Author) and Brian Pinkney (Illustrator)

Booktalk: A poetic requiem conveys the final months of Martin Luther King’s life.

Snippet:
These strong, quiet
strikers,
and all who stand by them,
refuse to Roar.

Going out like lambs,
they are ignored.

No better pay.
No benefits.
No fair working conditions.

No progress.

A 2018 Cybils Poetry nominee

See the book trailer.