{"id":1348,"date":"2010-03-26T08:39:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T15:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2010-03-26T08:46:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T15:46:25","slug":"i-was-wondering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/i-was-wondering\/","title":{"rendered":"I was wondering&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/greatsites\">ALA\/ALSC Great Web Sites for Kids<\/a>&#8216; Web Site of the Month is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwaswondering.org\/\">I Was Wondering&#8230; A curious look at Women&#8217;s Adventures in Science.<\/a> The site, along with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwaswondering.org\/about.html#science\">books<\/a>, is a project of the National Academy of Sciences. There are 10 biographies of contemporary scientists: a robot designer, a forensic anthropologist, a planetary astronomer, a physicist, a climate scientist, a planetary geologist, a sociologist, a neuropsychologist, a biomechanist, and a wildlife biologist.  Not only does it offer games, a time line, and a teacher&#8217;s guide, but there is also an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwaswondering.org\/askit.php\">Ask It!<\/a> section, an online community where you can ask questions, answer questions, and vote for questions to be answered by an expert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ALA\/ALSC Great Web Sites for Kids&#8216; Web Site of the Month is I Was Wondering&#8230; A curious look at Women&#8217;s Adventures in Science. The site, along with the books, is a project of the National Academy of Sciences. There are 10 biographies of contemporary scientists: a robot designer, a forensic anthropologist, a planetary astronomer, a physicist, a climate scientist, a planetary geologist, a sociologist, a neuropsychologist, a biomechanist, and a wildlife biologist. Not only does it offer games, a time line, and a teacher&#8217;s guide, but there is also an Ask It! section, an online community where you can ask questions, answer questions, and vote for questions to be answered by an expert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[22,10,24,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-literature","category-committees","category-digital-world","category-web-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}