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My new Focus on STEM column: More Summer Travel is in the August Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries newsletter.

Booktalk: Celebrate two historic travel achievements with a summer travel book display and activity center.

Snippet: This past July, we celebrated the first moon landing that happened fifty years ago. Fifty years prior to that, John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown flew an airplane with an open cockpit through fog and ice from Newfoundland to Ireland in the first nonstop, transatlantic flight. And it has now been five hundred summers since Ferdinand Magellan and his crew of 270 left Spain in five ships on their quest to circumnavigate the globe.

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

Owen at the Park
by Scot Ritchie (Author / Illustrator)

Booktalk: It’s a busy morning in the park. All along the boulevard, families are picnicking and people are napping, playing checkers and reading on the grass. But Owen and his dad are hard at work, raking and mowing the grass. And today, Owen gets to do the best job all on his own. With his dad’s encouragement, Owen gathers his courage and goes around to everyone in the park. He tells the families, the checkers players and the readers what he has to do, and they rush off. Finally, when the park is empty, it is the moment Owen has been waiting for. He turns the tap for the sprinkler system, and water cascades over the trees and flower beds.

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Summer Travel and STEM

Owen at the Park