{"id":1291,"date":"2022-06-10T05:50:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T12:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=1291"},"modified":"2022-06-09T18:09:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T01:09:56","slug":"how-does-solar-energy-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/how-does-solar-energy-work\/","title":{"rendered":"How Does Solar Energy Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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How Does Solar Energy Work?<\/em>
\nby Jennifer Swanson (Author) and Glen Mullaly (Illustrator)
\n@ Amazon<\/a> | Bookshop<\/a> | IndieBound<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Booktalk:<\/strong> Find out what solar energy is and how it is harnessed and used. Discover the history of this technology as well as need for solar power and how it could change our world.<\/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 2022 Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How Does Solar Energy Work? by Jennifer Swanson (Author) and Glen Mullaly (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound Booktalk: Find out what solar energy is and how it is harnessed and used. Discover the history of this technology as well as need for solar power and how it could change our world. Snippet: It’s … <\/p>\n

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