To celebrate School Library Media Month we invited one of the Maine Student Book Awards authors, Loree Burns, to visit our school. Dr. Burns is the author of "Tracking Trash, Flotsam and Jetsam and the Science of Ocean Motion". You can read more about her on her website. Dr. Burns talked to the 4th and 5th graders about the process of writing a book in a presentation she called "What's Your Angle?" The students enjoyed seeing the books Dr. Burns read as a child and hearing about how she was inspired by one of her teachers to become a scientist.
The 6th and 8th graders heard about her research for "Tracking Trash" and learned a lot about the ecology of the ocean environment and how spills of unlikely objects threaten the creatures who live in the sea.
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