Category: STEM
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Whole(y) Cow!
After years of divide and fail, can we reunite learning with STEM and project based learning? Study a package of hamburger as long as you like, you will never understand a cow. So why do we keep dividing learning into bite sized bits, cut out of context, meaning and purpose? Can memorizing artificial labels on…
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How many Drip, Drip, Drips does it take to lose a Million Dollars?
It was a joy to learn with the bright students at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute last week. The students worked hard and offered the guest speakers great questions and great respect. I’d like to challenge the students (and anyone who wishes) to understand and present the City Schools energy data accurately and informatively. Access to open and…
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Chesapeake Bay Foundation Oyster Gardening Workshop
Chesapeake Bay Foundation workshop teaches community members how to build oyster cages and raise oysters in the Baltimore Inner Harbor. The oyster population in the Chesapeake Bay has fallen to 1-2 percent of its historic levels due to pollution, loss of habitat and disease. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is working to restore oysters which help…
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Oyster Gardening in Baltimore Inner Harbor
Oyster gardening workshop by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation teaches volunteers how to make oyster cages and how to garden oysters in the the Baltimore Inner Harbor and the Chesapeake Bay.
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Water Lessons: How to measure water infiltration rates around the school yard.
Will water runoff or soak in? Bess Caplin of Baltimore Ecosystem Study demonstrates how to determine water infiltration rates around the school yard.
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