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Aquaponics. TreeHugger. Earth Hour. Waste Matters. CarbonKids Educational Resources. CarbonKids is a program for schools committed to tackling climate change. The educational resources offer a range of ideas and activities for the early, primary and middle years of schooling and enable students to achieve outcomes set out in State and Territory curriculum frameworks. 10 August 2010 | Updated 29 October 2012 The units and complementary materials have been developed to assist students in developing an understanding of: climate change and its impact on society and environments the interrelationship between the greenhouse emissions, the environment and our society how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in schools and local communities the role of forest biodiversity and biosequestration in addressing climate change how to adopt a sustainable lifestyle and take action to tackle climate change.
The educational resources are designed to be integrated into key learning areas in the Curriculum of Australian Schools. For more information, visit CarbonKids. Units New releases. Scenic Rim Robotic Dairy: Robotic Milking System; Dairy Tours Tamrookum; Beaudesert Dairy Tours; 4Real Milk. Make a small wind turbine that kids can help build. Instructable's user masynmachien gave us permission to share his cool DIY wind turbine project with you. This project is meant to be easy enough for older kids and adults to do without too much experience. It's a great way to brush up on your own skills or teach renewable energy basics to kids. Because these turbines are able to power LEDs and decoration is part of the fun, they would make great additions to a garden.
Masynmachien says, "For my latest workshop in my daughter’s school I wanted to let the children each make a wind turbine. The workshop was for 20 kids, which ruled out scavenging hard discs motors or stepper motors and such. An LED worked with a turbine and a single step 6 to 1 gearing, but only at really high wind speeds. Since originally posting this project, masynmachien notes that he has also built these turbines with these geared motors instead of a Joule Thief. Games & Activities. Loop Scoops. Practical Action - Schools program. Adaptive Technologies. SciGirls.
SciGirls has the bold goal of changing how millions of girls think about science, technology, engineering and math – or STEM. Each half-hour episode highlights the processes of science and engineering, following a different group of middle school girls who design, with the help of scientist mentors, their own inquiry-based investigations on a variety of topics. They also learn how rewarding and fun it is to work with their peers, and the shows’ female mentors offer girls a glimpse of exciting STEM career possibilities. SciGirls educational materials provide gender-equitable teaching strategies and hands-on inquiries based on the concepts modeled in SciGirls’ videos.
The SciGirls approach is rooted in research on how to engage girls in STEM. A quarter of a century of studies have converged on a set of common strategies that work, and these have become SciGirls’ foundation—aka the SciGirls Seven.