{"id":1376,"date":"2022-10-07T05:50:14","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T12:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2022-10-06T11:15:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T18:15:17","slug":"searching-the-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/searching-the-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Searching the Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Oct2022QT.jpg?resize=525%2C263&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"263\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18459\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My new <em>Focus on STEM<\/em> column, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Focus-on-STEM-Searching-the-Stars-Suen-Anastasia\/pid=9771039\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Searching the Stars<\/a><\/em>, is in the October <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/quick-tips-for-schools-and-libraries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries<\/a><\/em> newsletter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> With NASA&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-889\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stemfriday.tiny_.jpg?resize=216%2C104\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"104\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/\">STEM Friday!<\/a> (<strong>STEM<\/strong> is <strong>S<\/strong>cience, <strong>T<\/strong>echnology, <strong>E<\/strong>ngineering, and <strong>M<\/strong>athematics)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new Focus on STEM column, Searching the Stars, is in the October Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries newsletter. Snippet: With NASA&#8217;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. It&#8217;s STEM &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/searching-the-stars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Searching the Stars&#8221;<\/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-1376","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-mc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":400,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/when-the-stars-come-out\/","url_meta":{"origin":1376,"position":0},"title":"When the Stars Come Out","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"May 17, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"When the Stars Come Out by Nicola Edwards (Author) and Lucy Cartwright (Illustrator) Booktalk: As we delve into the magical realm that is our universe at night, we discover what makes it so extraordinary . . . \u0085from moonbows to shooting stars and from the polar night to the northern\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;STEM Friday Round-up&quot;","block_context":{"text":"STEM Friday Round-up","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/category\/stem-friday-round-up\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/whenstarscomeout-595x727.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/whenstarscomeout-595x727.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/whenstarscomeout-595x727.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":802,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/animals-in-the-sky\/","url_meta":{"origin":1376,"position":1},"title":"Animals in the Sky","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"June 26, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound Animals in the Sky by Sara Gillingham(Author \/ Illustrator) Booktalk: With a guessing game, this board book helps younger children identify six of the most recognizable animal constellations from The Great Bear to the The Southern Fish. 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