Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Books
My new Focus on STEM column, Beginnings, is in the January Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries newsletter from Booklist.
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Counting Winter
by Nancy White Carlstrom (Author) and Claudia McGehee (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: This lyrical counting book celebrates the rhythms of the tundra and its inhabitants during winter.
Snippet:
One red fox walks
across the white snow
quietly
stalking winter.
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Sky Explorer: A Young Adventurer’s Guide to the Sky by Day and Night
by Elizabeth Jenner (Author) and Anja Sušanj (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: From amazing cloud formations and rainbows to twinkling stars and planets, become an expert sky explorer day or night with this handy pocket guide with an elastic closer. Wherever you are, whatever the weather, there’s always something to see if you look up!
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Do You Know?: Polar Animals and Other Cold-Climate Creatures
by Pascale Hédelin (Author), Didier Balicevic (Illustrator), Maëlle Cheval (Illustrator), Yating Hung (Illustrator), and Yi-Hsuan Wu (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: What type of animals live in the cold regions? How do they survive in extreme temperatures? Find out in this 96-page read-aloud book for age 5 and up. The snippet below is about caribou — a.k.a. reindeer — a popular topic at this time of year!
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Make Your Own Christmas Crafts
by Kayla Rossow (Author)
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Booktalk: A step-by-step guide to make five simple Christmas crafts and activities.
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Up Periscope!: How Engineer Raye Montague Revolutionized Shipbuilding
by Jennifer Swanson (Author) and Veronica Miller Jamison (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Girls like Raye Montague weren’t supposed to like math or science, or go to engineering school. But tenacious Raye had a plan, one that eventually took her all the way to the US Navy. There, she was assigned an impossible task: to come up with a single computer program that could design every part of a ship. It had never been done before—but Raye’s groundbreaking program revolutionized the way ships and submarines were built, and set her on a path to become a pioneering figure in naval engineering and the navy’s first female program manager of ships.
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The author, Jennifer Swanson, is one of my former students.
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My new Focus on STEM column, Plastic, is in the November Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries newsletter from Booklist.
It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)
Copyright © 2024 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved.
The Science of Seeds: Why We Eat Maize, Wheat, Rice, and Potatoes with Hands-On Science Activities for Kids
by Carla Mooney (Author) and Micah Rauch (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: You probably have some form of maize, wheat, rice, potatoes. From London to Lagos to Los Angeles, these staple foods dominate our breakfast bowls, lunch boxes, and dinner tables. In today’s world, more than half of the calories that we consume come from maize, wheat, and rice alone. How did this happen?
In a journey that spans continents and time periods, readers aged 9 to 12 will see these crops as the building blocks of our world and dive deep into the science of botany. The hands-on STEM activities include recipes and QR codes that link to primary sources, videos, and other relevant websites.
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The author, Carla Mooney, is one of my former students.
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Bounce!: A Scientific History of Rubber
by Sarah Albee (Author) and Eileen Ryan Ewen (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Elementary school readers will discover that early balls didn’t bounce; that people in the rainforest made waterproof gear from rubber thousands of years before Europeans got into the act; and that sneakers, bicycles, and cars created demand for more and more rubber! Back matter includes a time line and the complicated implications of harvesting rubber today.
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Habitats: A Journey in Nature
by Hannah Pang (Author) and Isobel Lundie (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Watch six habitats from around the world transform in this unique book with split pages that grow wider with each page turn as they show new animals and facts.
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