Thu, Jan 19, 2017 1:22 PM in Fooled!
I bet the answer will be multi-layered. Like Pamela shared, we can now create edible plastic substitutes.
But, we can also use microbes that can degrade plastics:
https://phys.org/news/2016-03-newly-bacteria-plastic-bottles.html
I imagine, with a bit of genetic modification, those microbes could become a powerful tool to combat plastics already in the oceans.
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Sun, Jan 08, 2017 7:18 PM in One way to turn STEM into STEAM: Child Scientist Storybooks!
Thank you so much for the kind words Arlene! Truly, all credit goes to some wonderful students who persevered through a very difficult project and created some truly amazing works of art and literature.
I no longer teach at that district, but I'm sure I could get ahold of samples. I also took lots of pictures when they we did the reading days with the younger students. I would be honored to pr...
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Fri, Jan 06, 2017 1:08 PM in One way to turn STEM into STEAM: Child Scientist Storybooks!
Some time ago I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts and they mentioned a book that was soon to release called "Charlie and the Tortoise." You can find that book on Amazon here .
The book inspired me to try something similar with my own students last school year, so I came up with what I called the Child Scientist Storybook Project. These were 10th grade biology students. The gist of t...
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