{"id":959,"date":"2021-01-29T06:50:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T14:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=959"},"modified":"2021-01-28T15:37:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T23:37:31","slug":"living-vs-nonliving-science-showdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/living-vs-nonliving-science-showdowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Living vs. Nonliving (Science Showdowns)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/livingvsnonliving.jpg?resize=500%2C421&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"421\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13632\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3ptVkmF\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/6037\/9781503844445\">Bookshop<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781503844445?aff=anasuen09\">IndieBound<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Living vs. Nonliving (Science Showdowns)<\/em><br \/>\nby Maddie Spalding (Author)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> This chapter book illustrates the differences between living and nonliving by explaining what makes an object living or nonliving and the features of both. A chart compares the concepts to help solidify readers&#8217; grasp of the material. Additional features include a table of contents, a phonetic glossary, an index, and sources for further research.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/livingvsnonliving2-595x513.png?resize=525%2C453&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"453\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13633\" \/><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/livingvsnonliving1-595x513.png?resize=525%2C453&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"453\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13634\" \/><\/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 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound Living vs. Nonliving (Science Showdowns) by Maddie Spalding (Author) Booktalk: This chapter book illustrates the differences between living and nonliving by explaining what makes an object living or nonliving and the features of both. A chart compares the concepts to help solidify readers&#8217; grasp of the material. Additional features include &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/living-vs-nonliving-science-showdowns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Living vs. Nonliving (Science Showdowns)&#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-959","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-ft","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1138,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/night-becomes-day-changes-in-nature\/","url_meta":{"origin":959,"position":0},"title":"Night Becomes Day: Changes in Nature","author":"@roberta3","date":"October 15, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Over at Growing with Science blog, we are featuring the new picture book Night Becomes Day: Changes in Nature by Cynthia Argentine. 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