Today Growing with Science is hosting STEM Friday, the meme that highlights recently released Science, Technology, Engineering and Math books for children (as well as older favorites). The STEM Friday book meme has been ongoing, but now you can find it in one place each week – right here.
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In honor of poetry month and STEM Haiku:
Search for sea monster
Giant squid swimming so deep
Tentacle comes up
Our featured book, Giant Squid: Searching for a Sea Monster (Smithsonian) by Mary M Cerullo and Clyde F.E. Roper, is about fascinating creatures that live far down in the ocean, so far that we didn’t even know for sure they existed until recently.
Dr. Clyde Roper is a zoologist at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History who has devoted his life to finding out more about the elusive giant squid. Given that only one person has ever recorded images of a live giant squid (by sending a camera deep into the ocean), how do scientists study something that they can’t see? Dr. Roper looks for rare specimens that wash up on shore and also looks at sperm whales. Why sperm whales? He studies sperm whales because they dive to the depths of the ocean and eat giant squid. In fact, it was the sucker-shaped scars left on the skin of the sperm whales by giant squid tentacles that helped scientists figure out how big they were.
Visit Growing with Science for a full review of the book, a video of Dr. Roper, and links to hands-on activities to accompany Giant Squid.
Poison Dart Frogs
By Lisa Owings
At NC Teacher Stuff
Environmental Disasters
By Shirley Duke
At Simply Science
Explore Simple Machines! With 25 Great Projects
By Anita Yasuda
At Booktalking
Waiting for Ice
By Sandra Markle; illustrated by Alan Marks
At Archimedes Notebook
Eye to Eye with Animals: Reptiles
By Tom Greve
At Rourke
For the Birds: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson
By Peggy Thomas Illustrated by Laura Jacques.
At tamarack writes
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STEM Friday 
April 27, 2012 at 8:18 am
I love the squid haiku! Thanks for sharing your poetry and review of the Giant Squid book. Over at Archimedes Notebook I’ve posted a short review of “Waiting for Ice” and interview with author Sandra Markle
http://archimedesnotebook.blogspot.com/2012/04/earth-month-book-waiting-for-ice.html
April 27, 2012 at 2:32 pm
Hi Sue,
What a lovely book. You always have such wonderful choices.
April 27, 2012 at 8:19 am
Thanks, Roberta! I wasn’t sure if I should add my book today. We had a great trip but it’s good to be back. I’ll have a new post next week!
April 27, 2012 at 2:14 pm
Welcome back, Shirley!
April 27, 2012 at 8:27 am
Love the squid poetry! Thank you!
Rourke Educational Media looks at Reptiles this week!
http://blog.rourkepublishing.com/2012/04/27/stem-friday-reptiles/
April 27, 2012 at 2:27 pm
Precious,
We have a lot of interesting reptiles in Arizona. (A friend of mine just saw a gila monster last week). I’ll have to look this up.
April 27, 2012 at 8:37 am
Hello, early birds. I feel a bit like the hostess whose guests arrived while she was still tidying up. 🙂
There were a few glitches in the process, but I think we’re good now. I’ll be sweeping up the crumbs in the back throughout the day, so stop back if you get a chance.
April 27, 2012 at 9:26 am
Don’t worry, Roberta. You have your post up earlier this week than I did last week! The squid book looks very interesting. Thank you for posting my link!
April 27, 2012 at 2:15 pm
Jeff,
It doesn’t help that there’s a three hour time difference now. Your 8:00 a.m. is my 5:00 a.m. 🙂
April 27, 2012 at 2:06 pm
Hi there- Loving that haiku.
New to the Science bloggy game you’ve got going on.
I wrote about For the Birds today over at my blog Tamarack Writes- which is old news to you all, but I adore that book:)
http://tamarackwrites.blogspot.com/2012/04/for-birds.html
Thanks!
April 27, 2012 at 2:16 pm
Welcome Amanda. I have been meaning to pick up For the Birds, so it isn’t old news at all.
April 27, 2012 at 6:12 pm
Thanks Roberta!!