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Thinking and Drinking Critically: A Unit on New York City’s Water Quality Part 3
Designing a Water Filter Upon learning that many of their water samples may be impure, students are motivated to devise a solution to contaminated drinking water. This desire to solve the problem of “dirty water” is the impetus for our water filter engineering design challenge. Students observe a commercial water filter in action and participate in a whole-class discussion to make predictions concerning how and why it operates successfully. Then,…
Thinking and Drinking Critically: A Unit on New York City’s Water Quality Part 2
by Juliette Guarino Berg Understanding the Causes of Drinking Water Contamination To delve deeper into the unit’s driving questions, we start with the concept of pH, or “power of hydrogen.” Students review a graphic illustrating the pH scale and learn…
Thinking and Drinking Critically: A Unit on New York City’s Water Quality Part 1
by Juliette Guarino Berg The Flint, Michigan water crisis drew national attention to the effects of unsafe drinking water and issues of equity and social justice. It also opened up opportunities for engaging in socio-scientific issues in the science classroom…
STEMteachersNYC Summer Institute 2022
This summer join teachers from around the world for a dynamic and interactive digital STEM institute where they will get to engage in hands-on virtual workshops, knowledge sharing, and community building across disciplines. July 6 – August 15, 2022 Join…
Hurricanes, Wildfires, and Social Justice: Blending Science and Social Awareness in the Fourth Grade Classroom
While the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic dominated the media throughout 2020, it may have been easy to forget that other tragedies were occurring in our country as well. This year, we experienced one of the most active hurricane seasons…
SAMPE Foundation Awards Grant to Support Summer Institute
The SAMPE Foundation awarded STEMteachersNYC with a $5,000 grant to support the 2020 STEM Summer Institute. The SAMPE Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE). It promotes education and innovation in materials…
Values, Commitments, and Actions
To the members of STEMteachersNYC, This moment of anger and pain in our national consciousness – the latest in a centuries-long history of racism and oppression against Black Americans – underscores the need for all of us to work in…
Year-end Thoughts from Fernand
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Dear Fellow Teachers, As 2019 comes to a close, I want to reflect on STEMteachersNYC’s eight years of life and thank the dedicated teachers who form our backbone. When I think back to the 25 physics teachers seeking community who founded…
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