Today’s book reviews focus on small things, from DNA and germs to new nanotechnology and tiny animals. I remember the first time I looked through microscopes in high school and seeing protists for the first time. I was totally amazed and my amazement at those microscopic creatures has not waned to this day. Yearly flu …
Welcome back to STEAM Stories! My grandson is watching with wonder at these undulating jellyfish at the aquarium. I love seeing that joy and curiosity. This week’s selections are all biographies about women in STEAM careers, many who started to learn science early in their life. I first had the idea to do biographies in …
For my recent post about 3-D printing click here Beauty and the Beak Author: Deborah Lee Rose and Jane Veltkamp Publisher: Persnickety Press 2019 After a bald eagle, later named Beauty, receives a devastating injury to her beak, a wildlife rehabber and an engineer use 3D printing to give the bird a new life. Nice …
I hope you read my last post Wind Turbines and Whale FinsBased on that post here are some book recommendations. If you would like to purchase any of these books, check out my STEAM Stories Book Store Nature Did It First: Engineering Through Biomimicry Author: Karen Ansberry Illustrator: Jennifer DiRubbio Publisher: Dawn Publications, 2020 I’m …
