High Five- we are going to make it through this year!
May is right around the corner!
Please do not hesitate to reach out to your ECSES IT and STEM coaches via email at esces-it@iu13.org
Our final May STEM STUDIO 108 VIRTUAL STEM LESSONS are added. Sign up to hold your spot! Virtual STEM Lessons. If you are interested in attending the MAY LIVE lessons please sign up on this Google Form. Keep this Google Doc link nearby as we add lessons and video links. Our live lessons are going well. Join us if you want to check them out. What a year we have had with staff joining us for LIVE STEM lessons! Our Twitter page has been exploding with pictures of classes participating. Thank you goes out to those who tried this new adventure with us.
STEMconnector- this 15 page eBook talks about STEM and Food Agriculture. This eBook highlights real world problems and STEM careers. Use it as a good read for your upper level students or a document you use to share some great STEM facts and career opportunities for students.
Teacher Nurdle Kits Hit the Streets
The Nurdle Kit is a free curriculum with hands-on resources to talk about how plastics end up in the ocean.
Are you a teacher that teaches students about environmental issues? Then we have a kit just for you! It’s called a Teacher Nurdle Kit, and it has a curriculum for your students to learn about how plastics reach the ocean and all the materials needed for the teacher to explain the problems and solutions clearly. This interactive kit comes with 6 glass jars of nurdles where students will work in groups to help discuss plastics, how they get into the environment, what the harmful impacts are, and what can be done to prevent plastics from reaching the ocean.
Other items included in the kit are an informational card about Nurdle Patrol, and describes how to conduct a nurdle survey along a riverbank, lake shore, or beach. A flash drive that has training video, video presentation about nurdles, a power point presentation for teachers to give to their classroom, and articles about the nurdle pollution problem.
Nurdles are tiny plastic pellets that are used to make almost every plastic item we use, so they are everywhere! Ships, trucks, and trains all carry them, and when they spill out on their way to manufacturing facilities, they reach the ocean and wash up by the millions on beaches across every coast. The issue with nurdles is that they are harmful or even deadly for sea creatures, and if we clean them up from beaches, new ones will simply find their way back. That’s why the Nurdle Patrol is determined to make a permanent change.
How to get a Teacher Nurdle Kit? Fill out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScMSlbAYcv7hJ7TylIwX2PpldsGcorf3GW8I4f7izSFTAcKyw/viewform
Thanks to the Matagorda Bay Mitigation Trust for funding these kits.
Look on the right hand side of this Blog post for our final prize give-a-way. Could it be you? SECs or Program Designee will be nominating staff or classes each month and the winner or winners will be randomly selected using Wheel of Names. Good Luck!
