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LitLinks: How Elephants Can Make Your Sound Unit ROAR!

LitLinks: How Elephants Can Make Your Sound Unit ROAR!

Aug 12, 2020

BY PATRICIA NEWMAN What is sound? Most physics teachers would define sound as vibration in...

LitLinks: Expressing ideas – thinking, making, writing

LitLinks: Expressing ideas – thinking, making, writing

Aug 5, 2020

GUEST BLOGGER VICKY FANG Expressing ideas: thinking, making, writing A series for newly-independent readers. Layla...

LitLinks: Family + Diversity + Poetry + Math – Finding #STEM in family

LitLinks: Family + Diversity + Poetry + Math – Finding #STEM in family

Jul 29, 2020

GUEST BLOGGER JANAY BROWN-WOOD, PhD Helping children see the math in their worlds As educators,...

LitLinks: Using poetry to investigate engineering structure, function & design

LitLinks: Using poetry to investigate engineering structure, function & design

Jul 1, 2020

GUEST BLOGGER RANDI SONENSHINE Structure: From cells to skyscrapers An atom. An oak tree. A...

LitLinks: Solve the Drinking Straw Mystery

LitLinks: Solve the Drinking Straw Mystery

May 13, 2020

GUEST BLOGGER VICKI COBB Note to educators My new STEM PLAY books, Why Can I...

LitLinks: Shining a light on injustice

LitLinks: Shining a light on injustice

May 6, 2020

GUEST BLOGGER ALEXIS O’NEILL Technology can play an important role in fighting for the rights...

LitLinks: If Sun Could Speak – activities about night and day

LitLinks: If Sun Could Speak – activities about night and day

Apr 29, 2020

GUEST BLOGGER KOURTNEY LAFAVRE Does the sun rise? Children experience the world differently than adults....

LitLinks: Bring science to life this Earth Day

LitLinks: Bring science to life this Earth Day

Apr 22, 2020

GUEST BLOGGER ELIZABETH RUSCH Happy Earth Day! Instead of gathering in parks, forests, oceans to...

LitLinks: Re-engineering the airplane

Apr 8, 2020

GUEST BLOGGER KIRSTEN W. LARSON Beyond the Wright Brothers In 1903, the Wright Brothers invented...

LitLinks: Creating K-5 STEM Labs around STEM literature

LitLinks: Creating K-5 STEM Labs around STEM literature

Feb 19, 2020

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    • Giant Rays of Hope: Protecting Manta Rays to Safeguard the Sea
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    • Planet Ocean
    • Eavesdropping on Elephants
    • Neema’s Reason To Smile
    • Zoo Scientists to the Rescue
    • Sea Otter Heroes: The Predators That Saved an Ecosystem
    • Plastic, Ahoy! Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
    • Ebola: Fears and Facts
    • Jingle the Brass
    • Nugget on the Flight Deck
    • Surviving Animal Attacks
    • Elite Operations series
    • Energy Lab series
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    • Writers write all kinds of things
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