Thanks to all who attended the ALA session
If the phrase “Science Experiment” turns some kids off, then call it “Magic” and hook them for life.
I hope you had a blast with the ALA nonfiction bookblast workshop. I’m a nerd at heart and want to see our students climb back to the top of the science and math rosters world wide. With budget cuts across the country, the first line of defense is us. I’ll have this site fully up and running starting in September 2011 once my own daughters are back in school and I’ll enlist help from the best science nerds around the country. I’ve also registered the follow for reference:
http://www.connectingthestemdots.com
http://www.connectingthestemdots.org
Those url’s will be active and point here by early July. More content will follow.
I’m open to suggestions, comments, and wishlists for low-cost, easy to duplicate experiments available for teachers and librarians to download as well as any connections we can help make for students regarding applications to real life. In the meantime, I’ve posted my first handout from the ALA conference. I’ll also work on posting the videos and instructions for magnet experiments as well.
This site will remain a free resource.
Best wishes to those who are helping our children “connect the dots” to their future…Christine Taylor-Butler
S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math)
Welcome to my new blog. We’ll be talking science and its connection to the world around us. In the meantime, come visit with me and 9 other amazing nonfiction authors:
http://nonfictionbookblast.wordpress.com/about/
Nonfiction Book Blast: Booktalks and Activities for Your Library
American Library Association Annual Conference –New Orleans, LA.
Sunday June 26, 2011 8 am – 10 am
MCC-Rm 243
Start school with new booktalks and activities from ten nonfiction authors: April Pulley Sayre (Rah, Rah, Radishes), Kelly Milner Halls (In Search of Sasquatch), Deborah Heiligman (Charles and Emma), Loree Griffin Burns (The Hive Detectives), Carla Killough McClafferty (The Many Faces of George Washington), Christine Taylor-Butler (Magnets), Shirley Duke (You Can’t Wear These Genes), Darcy Pattison (Prairie Storms), Carla Mooney (Explorers of the New World) and Anastasia Suen (Read and Write Sports). (Handouts)
In the meantime – check out this fascinating article by National Geographics about how fire ants form life rafts to prevent their colony from drowning. I’ll be posting experiments on “surface” tension soon (no fire ants, though, promise)
