{"id":1386,"date":"2022-10-28T05:50:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T12:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2022-10-27T15:19:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T22:19:17","slug":"full-of-life-exploring-earths-biodiversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/full-of-life-exploring-earths-biodiversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Full of Life: Exploring Earth&#8217;s Biodiversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fulloflife-960x838.jpg?resize=525%2C458&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"458\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18578\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Full of Life: Exploring Earth&#8217;s Biodiversity<\/em><br \/>\nby Isabel Thomas (Author) and Sara Gillingham (Artist)<br \/>\n<em>@ <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3DedTTS\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/6037\/9781838665364\">Bookshop<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781838665364?aff=anasuen09\">IndieBound<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> This guide to Earth&#8217;s Tree of Life &#8211; the reference tool used by scientists to organize the incredible variety of living things on our planet &#8211; helps young readers understand how every living creature, from the tiniest germ to the biggest blue whale, is part of one big family tree. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fulloflife1-960x411.png?resize=525%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18580\" \/><\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full of Life: Exploring Earth&#8217;s Biodiversity by Isabel Thomas (Author) and Sara Gillingham (Artist) @ Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound Booktalk: This guide to Earth&#8217;s Tree of Life &#8211; the reference tool used by scientists to organize the incredible variety of living things on our planet &#8211; helps young readers understand how every living creature, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/full-of-life-exploring-earths-biodiversity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Full of Life: Exploring Earth&#8217;s Biodiversity&#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-1386","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-mm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":899,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/living-fossils-survivors-from-earths-distant-past\/","url_meta":{"origin":1386,"position":0},"title":"Living Fossils: Survivors from Earth&#8217;s Distant Past","author":"@roberta3","date":"October 30, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Today at Growing with Science blog we delve into a new middle grade book, Living Fossils: Survivors from Earth's Distant Past by Rebecca E. 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