Showing posts with label 607.10-Technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 607.10-Technology. Show all posts

Friday, March 22, 2019

STEAM books in SRCSA library

Countertop display of books arranged upright on stands, their titles facing outward. To the left, a handmade sign out of colorful letters against black-and-white patterned contact paper reads, 'Salute to S.T.E.A.M.' There are yellow borders, darker polka-dots against a lighter-yellow background, above and below the lettering of the sign. From left to right, the books on display are 'STEM Careers: Civil Engineer,' 'Careers if You Like the Arts,' 'STEM Careers: Chemist,' 'Design, Animate, and Create with Computer Graphics,' 'and STEM Careers: Software Engineer.'

One of this month’s highlights was a STEAM fair at Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts. Here’s a display I put out in the library at SRCSA ... a variety of books on the subjects of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math.

Saturday, June 9, 2018

‘Cats vs. Robots’ by Margaret Stohl

Book cover, Cats vs. Robots, This is War, by Margaret Stohl and Lewis Peterson. Image depicts two cats, positioned above the title letters, looking down at a robot that's beneath the lettering. The robot brandishes claw-like appendages and glares at the cats.
Learned this morning in an email that I’d won a Goodreads Giveaway of Margaret Stohl and Lewis Peterson’s Cats vs. Robots #1, This is War.

My initial impression of this book, when I enrolled in the giveaway, was that it combined my favorite animal, the cat, with an application of STEAM principles (That’s Sciences, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics. As I understand it, educators incorporate STEAM in education to prepare children to live and work in an increasingly technological society.)

Well, my intention with any children’s book giveaway that I won was to place the book, once I'd read it, into my school library. And for its emphasis on STEAM, plus seeming a really fun read, I thought this book would be an especially good fit. I’m looking forward to receiving this book and, most especially, to reading it.