{"id":426,"date":"2019-06-07T08:20:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T15:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=426"},"modified":"2019-06-07T09:30:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T16:30:16","slug":"apollo-11-quick-tips-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/apollo-11-quick-tips-column\/","title":{"rendered":"Apollo 11 Quick Tips column"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9021\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/apollo11-595x298.jpg?resize=525%2C263&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"263\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Artwork \u00a9 Thomas Gonzalez, <em>Countdown: 2979 Days to the Moon<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My new <em>Focus on STEM<\/em> column: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Focus-on-STEM-Apollo-11-Suen-Anastasia\/pid=9722119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apollo 11<\/a><\/em> is in the June <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries<\/a><\/em> newsletter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Use the approaching fiftieth anniversary of the lunar landing to inspire school- and library-friendly activities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> July 20 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the first successful lunar landing. Round up these new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Focus-on-STEM-Apollo-11-Suen-Anastasia\/pid=9722119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apollo 11 books<\/a>&#8211;along with the ones already in your collection&#8211;for a book display\/activity table in your 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 2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artwork \u00a9 Thomas Gonzalez, Countdown: 2979 Days to the Moon My new Focus on STEM column: Apollo 11 is in the June Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries newsletter. Booktalk: Use the approaching fiftieth anniversary of the lunar landing to inspire school- and library-friendly activities. Snippet: July 20 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/apollo-11-quick-tips-column\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Apollo 11 Quick Tips column&#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-426","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-6S","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":451,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/luna-by-david-a-aguilar\/","url_meta":{"origin":426,"position":0},"title":"Luna by David A. 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