Latest News, Articles, and Updates on STEM Education
Back to School with STEM: 21st century learning skills
An educational concept that has been heavily talked about nowadays is the idea of 21st century skills. But what does this actually mean? Let’s break it down with an example. In 2020, the world was faced with an extreme crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic. This pandemic took...
Related issue: Carbon bubble & unburnable carbon
As you may recall in my other blog I talked about avoiding warming of 2 degrees large amounts of fossil fuels would have to remain in the ground. As such, that means fossil fuel companies will not be able to burn much of their reserves. In theory, carbon capture...
Carbon Footprints/ Carbon Offsets
Carbon dioxide is perhaps, the most infamous of the greenhouse gases. They all are bad, in the excessive quantities that they are being emitted right in now, but Carbon dioxide seems to be focused on the most. Why? This is because carbon dioxide is the most abundant...
First Robotics Competition 2022
The First Robotics Competition is an international robotics community educating youth on future technological and societal advances. Teams of high school students are challenged each year to construct industrial-sized robots to compete in a challenging field game in...
STEM Takes on Environmental Issues: Electrification/Decarbonization & Air pollution
In my last blog, I talked about the issue of air pollution and mentioned that fossil fuels are a source of many different types of air pollution. So it should come as no surprise that the best way to get rid of air pollution is to cut out fossil fuels. The way to do...
Air Pollution: An Invisible Threat
A while ago, I talked about plastic pollution, a huge issue, but a very much visible one. Even just on a walk you will likely find tons of litter everywhere. Air pollution, on the other hand, is not nearly as visible. But it is just as big as a threat, killing 7...
Ocean-Based Carbon Capture & Ocean Acidification/Coral Bleaching
In my last blog, I talked about two closely linked issues, ocean acidification and coral bleaching, which themselves are linked to another issue, climate change. Dealing with climate change will likely involve reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere....
Related Issue: Coral Bleaching
Corral reefs are important. As mentioned in the Ocean Acidification blog, 25% of all ocean life relies on them at some point in their lives. The great barrier reef alone hosts over 400 corral species,1500 fish species, 4000 mollusk species, and 6 of 7 sea turtle...
Ocean acidification: An Issue Just as Bad as its Cause
At this point in time, everyone has a general understanding climate change. Most of us know it causes extinctions, dangerous natural disasters, and more. We also all know that it’s getting worse. Climate change is partly responsible for most of the issues mentioned in...
Ontario’s New STEM Curriculum (2022)
Our ever-evolving digital society has challenged our education system to adapt to supporting students so they can thrive in the 4th industrial revolution. The Ontario Ministry of Education has recently made significant changes to both the Elementary Math curriculum...