{"id":21540,"date":"2015-09-16T05:08:24","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T10:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=21540"},"modified":"2017-12-06T08:18:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T14:18:09","slug":"september-16th-is-buy-a-teacher-a-book-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/16\/september-16th-is-buy-a-teacher-a-book-day\/","title":{"rendered":"September 16th Is Buy A Teacher A Book Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, not really, I just made that up.  But it should be! As all the kiddies are going back to school, especially yours if you&#8217;ve got &#8217;em, and you are going to have your first meetings with the teachers (Parent Night, Conferences, etc.) over the next few days, this is a good time to bring your kid&#8217;s teacher(s) a nice book.<\/p>\n<p>A book on the Evolution Creation Debate for your kid&#8217;s biology teacher, or school administrator. A nice science activity book, not necessarily to use in class, but for the elementary school teacher to get some ideas from.<\/p>\n<p>Some ideas:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2013\/04\/05\/the-new-crossley-raptor-id-book-you-want-it\/\">A local guide to birds<\/a> or trees or something for a teacher that is known to take the kiddies out to the pond in the back of the school to collect stuff. Or <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2012\/12\/13\/how-to-draw-birds\/\">a bird related book for the art teacher<\/a> would be nice.  That sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p>One nice book, that I just reviewed, is <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2015\/09\/15\/climate-change-and-earth-science-kids-activity-book\/\">Climate Change Discover How It Impacts Space Ship Earth<\/a>.  Related would be <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2015\/04\/30\/dire-predictions-understanding-climate-change-must-read-book\/\">Mike Mann&#8217;s pictorial version <\/a>of the latest IPCC Report&#8217;s science volume. <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/05\/20\/evolution-vs-creationism-by-eu\/\">Genie Scott&#8217;s book on Evolution vs. Creationism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2015\/02\/26\/please-dont-paint-our-planet-pink\/\">A kid&#8217;s book on global warming<\/a> or one on <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2014\/06\/28\/evolution-book-for-young-children-grandmother-fish\/\">evolution<\/a> would be nice for the elementary school teachers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, not really, I just made that up. But it should be! As all the kiddies are going back to school, especially yours if you&#8217;ve got &#8217;em, and you are going to have your first meetings with the teachers (Parent Night, Conferences, etc.) over the next few days, this is a good time to bring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/16\/september-16th-is-buy-a-teacher-a-book-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">September 16th Is Buy A Teacher A Book Day<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5040],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-5Bq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28337,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21540\/revisions\/28337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}