Cindy Blobaum

Background

Cindy Blobaum was born on June 8, 1966, in Galesburg, Illinois, United States. She is the daughter of Gary Sickbert (an engineer) and Janet Sickbert (a medical technologist).

Education

Cindy received a Bachelor of Arts degree at Eastern Illinois University in 1987. Ten years later, in 1998 she became a Master of Arts, graduating from the University of Oklahoma.

Career

Cindy Blobaum worked and traveled around the United States and Australia before settling down in Iowa. Her jobs have included positions as a seasonal zookeeper, quality control technician at a potato chip factory, carnival barker, waitress, and ice skating guard. Her first place of work was a Pottawattamie County Conservation Board on the position of naturalist in 1992. In 1995, Cindy changed job and went to Riverview Nature Island in Des Moines also as naturalist and projector coordinator till 1999.

As of the year 2000 and to this day Cindy Blobaum works at Fontenelle Foreston a position of manager of the nature center and project coordinator.

Achievements

• Cindy's success in writing came when she first published Geology Rocks!: 50 Hands-On Activities to Explore the Earth in 2004, and then after publishing Insectigations: 40 Hands-on Activities to Explore the Insect World. Her name was put in articles The New York Times as an author of most selling science literature for children in 2005.

Works

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  • Awesome Snake Science!: 40 Activities for Learning About Snakes

    (From cobras and copperheads to pythons and boas, all type...)

    2012
  • Explore Predators and Prey!: With 25 Great Projects

    (Hunting, hiding, trapping, and tricking are just a few of...)

    2016
  • Explore Gravity!: With 25 Great Projects

    (How can something that grounds us and keeps us here on th...)

    2013
  • Insectigations: 40 Hands-on Activities to Explore the Insect World

    (From butterflies and beetles to crickets and katydids, th...)

    2005
  • Explore Night Science!: With 25 Great Projects

    (Explore Night Science! encourages 6-9 year-olds to safely...)

    2012
  • Geology Rocks!: 50 Hands-On Activities to Explore the Earth

    (Presents fifty hands-on activities to introduce the scien...)

    2004
  • Explore Honey Bees!: With 25 Great Projects

    (What did you have for breakfast this morning? Toast, cere...)

    2015
  • Explore Money!: With 25 Great Projects

    (In Explore Money! With 25 Great Projects, money is more t...)

    2014
  • Explore The Ice Age!: With 25 Great Projects

    (Brrr…does it feel cold? Get out your gloves and get ready...)

    2017
  • Critical Thinking & Chemistry: The Periodic Table Grades 5-8

    (Bring the periodic table ot life with this hands-on, mind...)

    2004
  • Rainforest Adventure Swing Vine Science 2007
  • Rainforest Adventure Sky High Storytelling 2007

Membership

Cindy Blobaum is a member of National Association for Interpretation, National Science Teachers Association, Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and Iowa Association of Naturalists.

Personality

Cindy Blobaum once commented: “My primary goal in writing is to help young people explore, explain, understand, and enjoy science, especially the natural world. Having spent seventeen years actively designing and delivering informal education programs across the country, I am distilling what I learned and developed to share with a larger audience.”

Interests

• Folk dancing, camping

• Music & Bands

  Folk music

Connections

On April 1, 1995, Cindy has married Philip Blobaum, a videographer. They have one son and one daughter.

Father:

Gary Sickbert

Mother:

Janet Sickbert

husband:

Philip Blobaum

Son:

Jacob Blobaum

Daughter:

Emily Blobaum

References

• Contemporary Authors New Revision Series: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Non-Fiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, and Other Fields
  2010