{"id":498,"date":"2019-08-16T05:40:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T12:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=498"},"modified":"2019-08-15T15:25:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T22:25:13","slug":"summer-travel-and-stem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/summer-travel-and-stem\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Travel and STEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/QTmoresummertravel-595x298.jpg?resize=525%2C263&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"263\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9449\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My new <em>Focus on STEM<\/em> column: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Focus-on-STEM-More-Summer-Travel-Suen-Anastasia\/pid=9725170\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More Summer Travel<\/a><\/em> is in the August <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> Celebrate two historic travel achievements with a summer travel book display and activity center. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> This past July, we celebrated the first moon landing that happened fifty years ago. Fifty years prior to that, John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown flew an airplane with an open cockpit through fog and ice from Newfoundland to Ireland in the first nonstop, transatlantic flight. And it has now been five hundred summers since Ferdinand Magellan and his crew of 270 left Spain in five ships on their quest to circumnavigate the globe.<\/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>My new Focus on STEM column: More Summer Travel is in the August Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries newsletter. Booktalk: Celebrate two historic travel achievements with a summer travel book display and activity center. Snippet: This past July, we celebrated the first moon landing that happened fifty years ago. Fifty years prior to that, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/summer-travel-and-stem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Summer Travel and STEM&#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-498","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-82","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":502,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/migration-incredible-animal-journeys\/","url_meta":{"origin":498,"position":0},"title":"Migration: Incredible Animal Journeys","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"August 23, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Migration: Incredible Animal Journeys by Mike Unwin (Author) and Jenni Desmond (Illustrator) Booktalk: Animals of all shapes and sizes make epic journeys across our planet, through harsh weather, avoiding hungry predators, in their efforts to survive. 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