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  • STEM Tuesday -- Human Body-- Book List
    STEM Tuesday — Human Body– Book List
    November 5, 2024 by
                Everyone has one, but not everyone understands it: their body, that is!  Listed below are some engaging books that will get readers excited. Filled with hands-on activities, great visuals and fun facts, learning about the body will be a treat!       Human Body Learning Lab: Take an Inside Tour of How Your Anatomy Works by Dr. Betty Choi  Learn about the human body with awesome hands-on projects and activities. Shaping bones from salt dough? Creating a moving model of the eye? Setting up a model of the urinary system to see how pee is produced? Yes, please! With loads of colorful diagrams, fantastic fun facts, and easy exercises that kids can use to learn about their own bodies, this engaging book is the perfect addition to any kids library.            The Fantastic Body: What Makes You Tick and...
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  • Happy 7th Anniversary to STEM Tuesday and a GIVEAWAY!
    Happy 7th Anniversary to STEM Tuesday and a GIVEAWAY!
    October 29, 2024 by
    The entire STEM Tuesday team is SO excited to be celebrating our SEVENTH  anniversary!! We have enjoyed every minute of it and hope you have, too. Our goal, when we started this blog was to provide  engaging, exciting, and inspiring STEM/STEAM activities and literacy connections to all of our readers. Over the past three years, we have taken a deep dive into so many unique and interesting topics. From conservation, to Health, to Field Work, and even Exploration and Technology. We have featured graphic novels, Women’s History month, sharks, and activity books. And who can forget the posts on epic achievements and fantastic failures? Such important concepts in all of STEM/STEAM. If you have used STEM Tuesday’s posts in your classroom or homeschool, let us know by commenting below. We’d like to hear what kind of  STEM/STEAM activities and literacy connections your student’s are enjoying. If there is topic that we haven’t covered yet and you’d like to see, please...
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  • STEM Tuesday -- Bioluminesence-- Author Interview
    STEM Tuesday — Bioluminesence– Author Interview
    October 22, 2024 by
    Welcome to STEM Tuesday: Author Interview, a repeating feature for the fourth Tuesday of every month. Go Science-Tech-Engineering-Math! Why are author interviews such an important part of STEM Tuesday? For one, it’s fun for kids (and adults!) to read about doing research and writing from the person doing the work. Plus, getting a glimpse into what it’s like to be an author can get kids (again – and adults!) excited about doing their own writing! Now, let’s meet Stephen Aitken, who’s written or illustrated dozens of nonfiction books for kids! His newest book is Living Light: Conserving Bioluminescent Plants and Animals (Orca Book Publishers 2024), which explores the amazing world of creatures that generate their own light. Andi Diehn: I didn’t realize that bioluminescence had evolved independently in different species with different chemicals working to produce the light. This is fascinating – does this make it more complicated to study? Stephen...
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Karen Latchana Kenney

Biography

Karen Latchana Kenney loves to write books about animals, and looks for them wherever she goes—from leafcutter ants trailing through the Amazon rain forest in Guyana, where she was born, to puffins in cliff-side burrows on the Irish island of Skellig Michael. She especially enjoys creating books about nature, biodiversity, conservation, and groundbreaking scientific discoveries—but also writes about civil rights, astronomy, historical moments, and many other topics. Her award-winning and star-reviewed books have been named a YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers, a 2015 Book of Note from the TriState Review Committee, a 2011 Editor’s Choice for School Library Connection, and Junior Library Guild selections. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband and son, and bikes, hikes, and gazes at the night sky in northern Minnesota any moment she can.