October 2022 – STEM Friday

October 28, 2022October 27, 2022

Full of Life: Exploring Earth’s Biodiversity

Full of Life: Exploring Earth’s Biodiversity
by Isabel Thomas (Author) and Sara Gillingham (Artist)
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Booktalk: This guide to Earth’s Tree of Life – the reference tool used by scientists to organize the incredible variety of living things on our planet – helps young readers understand how every living creature, from the tiniest germ to the biggest blue whale, is part of one big family tree.

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October 21, 2022October 20, 2022

The Real Science of Invisibility

The Real Science of Invisibility
by Christina Hill (Author)
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Booktalk: With the superpower of invisibility, you could do amazing magic tricks, play funny pranks, even sneak up on bad guys! How do fictional heroes with the power of invisibility do it? More important, how can humans do it themselves one day? Learn the real-life science behind the superpower and what scientists are doing to make that power a reality.

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October 14, 2022October 13, 2022

The Museum of Odd Body Leftovers

The Museum of Odd Body Leftovers: A Tour of Your Useless Parts, Flaws, and Other Weird Bits
by Rachel Poliquin (Author) and Clayton Hanmer (Illustrator)
@ Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound

Booktalk: Welcome to the weirdest museum you’ll ever explore–the one inside your body.

Did you know your amazing, incredible body is a walking, talking museum of evolution? Tour guides Wisdom Tooth and Disappearing Kidney lead readers through a wacky museum dedicated to vestigial structures: body parts that were essential to our ancestors but are no longer useful to us–even though they’re still hanging around.

From goosebumps and hiccups to exploding organs and monkey muscles, each room in the museum shows us that these parts have stories to tell us about our past. By the time we make it to the gift shop, we’ll understand that evolution is not only messy and imperfect, but also ongoing. Our bodies are constantly changing along with the environment we live in–and there’s so much that is still unknown, just waiting to be discovered.

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October 7, 2022October 6, 2022

Searching the Stars

My new Focus on STEM column, Searching the Stars, is in the October Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries newsletter.

Snippet: With NASA’s educational activities for the James Webb Space Telescope and these recent titles about vision, telescopes, and astronomy, you can bring the past -and the present- into your classroom or library.

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