Waste not, want not is a hard maxim to follow in today's consumer society. The U.S. generates almost 5 pounds of trash per person every day - much of it paper products and food. That's up from 2.68 pounds in 1960. The good news? A third of that annual 292 million tons of junk now gets recycled or composted. Your environmental engineers will savor every scrap doing this month's activities marking Earth Day. See who volunteers for classroom clean-ups!
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EXTRA CREDIT
The Quest for Less [PDF] The Environmental Protection Agency's teacher's guide to reducing, reusing, and recylcing includes activities - one featuring Dr. Seuss.
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Students in grades 3 to 5 brainstorm ideas for board game formats. They then work in teams to design, create, and test games in which players must think of alternative uses (recycling) for used products.
Bonus: Try other upper-elemetary activities from this TeachEngineering Waste & Recycling unit.
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Illustration by Francis Igot for ASEE Prism |
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Engineers are reimagining product design to reduce waste, improve recycling, and protect the environment from planned obsolescence.
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This year's theme is "Invest In Our Planet" and there are lots of ways to get involved, from chatting with NASA specialists to organizing a community cleanup, planting a tree, measuring your "foodprint' - and making a difference year 'round,
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Learn how to integrate engineering design into your STEM curriculum this summer with a pair of TeachEngineering two-day virtual workshops - the nation's first engineering teacher professional development endorsed by the American Society for Engineering Education.
June 20-21 or August 1-2, 2022 (Integrating Engineering Design into Your PreK-12 Curriculum)
June 23-24 or August 3-4, 2022 (Engineering Prototyping and Pedagogy Skills and Tools for K-12)
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Student Contests & STEM Programs |
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Amazon's K-12 STEM initiative for underserved students offers free coding camps, AP prep, and college scholarships.
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Educator Grants & Professional Learning |
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The Knowles Teacher Initiative, an immersive professional learning community for P-12 STEM teachers, is offering free, short online courses throughout the school year. Register for May 9, 19 , and 26 sessions on project-based learning basics, equitable group work, and more.
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Library of Congress specialists host educator workshops and webinars on using primary sources. Next webinar, April 28 from 7 to 8 p.m., focuses on using primary sources with a STEM lens.
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Open to teachers in all 50 states, the Distrcit of Columbia, and Department of Defense schools can receive up to $3,000 to support STEM programs and activities, including innovative virtual or distance learning initiatives.
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Teachers can win up to $5,000 for their school to build and equip a top-tier STEM lab. Enter daily through April 22.
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Bring the excitement of future lunar expeditions to your middle school classroom.
“Landing Humans on the Moon” features four standards-aligned activities to help students learn about the Moon and create a model of a human landing system for lunar expeditions.
Visit the site to download the guide and watch video demonstrations of the activities.
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NSTA's Daily Do Playlists are instructional sequences of two or more lessons that help students coherently build science ideas over time. Lessons have been updated to facilitate remote learning.
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The National Energy Educational Development Project (NEED) offers free, live virtual energy education workshops and other professional learning opportunities for P-12 teachers in subjects from electricity to climate science to solar, wind, and nuclear energy.
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Engineering Career-Exploration Resources |
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STEM Careers. -- Show students what engineers do with Discovering You: Engineering Your World, a new video series from NBCLearn, Chevron, and ASEE.
Chemical Engineering Careers. -- YouTube series launched by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation aims to convey the major positive impact that chemical engineers and scientists have on society. Each video includes a proposed lesson for incorporating the cutting edge research into the classroom.
NASA Internships. -- High school, college, and grad students can work with engineers and scientists on sending the first woman to the moon and other missions.
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Explore eGFI: Helpful Links |
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Whether you seek timely, authentic engineering activities, teaching resources, or professional development opportunities, ASEE's free eGFI Teachers newsletter is your go-to source for STEM! |
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