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Hello, Earth!: Poems to Our Planet

Hello, Earth!: Poems to Our Planet
by Joyce Sidman (Author) and Miren Asiain Lora (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: We walk on Earth’s surface every day, but how often do we wonder about the incredible planet around us? From the molten cracks below to the shimmering moon above, explore the wonders of the natural world.

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HELLO, EARTH!

It’s your children.
Some of your children —
the human ones.
We have been studying you, Earth,
but we long to learn more.

We want to ask you
a few questions.

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Nature Did It First

Nature Did It First: Engineering Through Biomimicry
by Karen Ansberry (Author) and Jennifer DiRubbio (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Explore the ways we have looked to nature for brilliant new designs and innovations to solve our own conundrums. Each example in nature is paired with a rhyming description, an example of how it has been used by us, and a question to the reader–“what other problems can be solved?”

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

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