{"id":1028,"date":"2021-04-30T06:50:46","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T13:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2021-04-29T17:51:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T00:51:02","slug":"outdoor-school-rock-fossil-and-shell-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/outdoor-school-rock-fossil-and-shell-hunting\/","title":{"rendered":"Outdoor School: Rock, Fossil, and Shell Hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Outdoor School: Rock, Fossil, and Shell Hunting: The Definitive Interactive Nature Guide<\/em>
\nby Jennifer Swanson (Author) and John D. Dawson (Illustrator)
\n@ Amazon<\/a> | Bookshop<\/a> | IndieBound<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Booktalk:<\/strong> No experience is required–only curiosity and courage. This interactive field guide to rocks, fossils, & shells, includes:
\n-Digging, chiseling, hammering, and wading for rocks and minerals
\n-Identifying rocks & minerals by location, texture, color, shape and size
\n-Determining between rocks, geodes, and space rocks
\n-Finding fossils and setting up a dig site
\n-Searching and snorkeling for shells
\n-Storing and displaying your collection
\nAnd so much more! Did you notice the metal corners on the book cover?<\/em> <\/p>\n

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It’s STEM Friday!<\/a> (STEM<\/strong> is S<\/strong>cience, T<\/strong>echnology, E<\/strong>ngineering, and M<\/strong>athematics)<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2021 Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Outdoor School: Rock, Fossil, and Shell Hunting: The Definitive Interactive Nature Guide by Jennifer Swanson (Author) and John D. Dawson (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound Booktalk: No experience is required–only curiosity and courage. This interactive field guide to rocks, fossils, & shells, includes: -Digging, chiseling, hammering, and wading for rocks and minerals -Identifying … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Outdoor School: Rock, Fossil, and Shell Hunting”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem-friday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pamhGQ-gA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1099,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/little-kids-first-big-book-of-rocks-minerals-shells\/","url_meta":{"origin":1028,"position":0},"title":"Little Kids First Big Book of Rocks, Minerals & Shells","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"August 20, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Little Kids First Big Book of Rocks, Minerals & Shells by Moira Rose Donohue (Author) @ Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound Booktalk: Discover how rocks are formed, the three kinds of rocks, and the difference between rocks and minerals. 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