{"id":110,"date":"2018-11-23T05:30:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T13:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=110"},"modified":"2018-11-10T14:39:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T22:39:53","slug":"renaissance-series-connects-stem-with-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/renaissance-series-connects-stem-with-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Renaissance series connects STEM with Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Nomad Press has a fun new series out called Renaissance for Kids<\/strong>. The books in this series invite readers to dive into the Renaissance period and learn about inventors, thinkers, explorers, and artists. The series includes plenty of hands-on STEAM activities… Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math.<\/p>\n

Titles include: The Renaissance Artists, The Renaissance Explorers, The Renaissance Inventors, The Renaissance Thinkers<\/em>. Written for young people ages 10-15.<\/p>\n

Included in the volume on “thinkers” are Nicolaus Copernicus and Francis Bacon. “Being a scientist during the Renaissance could be a lonely business,” writes author Diane Taylor. “There were no graduate students to hang out with, no research institutes to work at, and no conferences to attend.”<\/p>\n

Copernicus watched the night sky. He was an astronomer and noticed that not everything circled the earth once a day. Planets, for example, seemed to wander back and forth. He also suggested that the earth orbited the sun – a break with what people thought, that the sun went around the earth.<\/p>\n

Francis Bacon is often called the “father of science”. Born in 1561, he was a gifted and prolific writer. He was passionate about science, and thought deeply about how scientists can know when they have discovered the truth of something. He developed a scientific method:<\/p>\n