S.T.E.M.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. - The Lorax - Dr. Seuss

Resources:

• CrashCourseKids: Engineering Design Process

• Instructables

• MakeCode: SkillMap

• Hour of Code - Minecraft

• STEM Improv

Intro to Engineering Design Process:

• Pills Dissolve

• Crash Course: The Engineering Design Process

• Science Buddies: Pill Design Challenge

• Scientific American: A Better Pill - Internal Delivery Devices May Help Patients Take Their Medicine

Simple Machines:

• PBS: Simple Machines

• OK Go: This Too Shall Pass (Rube Goldberg)

SURVIVAL STEM: Asteroid Impact

• Greenland Movie Clip

• Earth Impacts Effects Program

• TedEd: What Really Killed the Dinosaurs?

• The Science Behind Asteroid Impacts

• NASA: DART Data Confirmed

• NASA: DART strike to Dimorphos

• PBS: Neil deGrasse Tyson

• Microcosmos: Tardigrade

• Geothermal Energy

• Everything that You Need to Know About Eating Insects

• Chirps

• Edible Insects for Sale

MakeCode & Micro:bit

• Create a Maze Game

• Adding Levels to Our Games

• Quizlet: Micro:bit and Circuits

• Intro to Breadboards

Environmental Engineering

• PhET: Greenhouse Effect

• KXNews: Stanley receives $2.4 million in loans to replace sewer lines

• PBS: Diving Into Wastewater Treatment

• Mark Rober: Drinking Nasty Swamp Water

• PBS: The Plastic Problem

• Beauty and the Beads

• Wastewater Treatment Plant Tour

• PBS: Agricultural Runoff & the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone

The Internet

• Code.org: The Internet

• Rural Utilities Building Broadband Networks - Community Broadband Bits Podcast Episode 109

Electric Cars and Biodiesel

• EPA: Electrical Vehicle Myths

• MIT: Climate Portal - Electric Cars

• Department of Energy: Alternative Fuels Data Center

• EIA: Biofuels Explained

• DOE: Alternative Fuels Data Center

• How Diesel Engines Work

• University of Idaho: How We Make Biodiesel

FIRE SCIENCE

• Map of Standardized Terrestrial Ecosystems of the Conterminous United States (pgs 11-14)

• Map of Level III Ecosystems

• EnviroAtlas

• EPA: Level III and Level IV Ecoregions

• USGS - Living with Fire: The USGS Southern California Wildfire Risk Project

• USGS - Lava Lake Spattering at Halema'uma'u' Crater

• NPS: Wildland Fire Facts - There Must be all Three

• Landsat Introduction

• National Interagency Fire Center (Current Events - Fire)

• USGS Water Quality After a Fire

• USGS Landslide and Debris Flow

• Berkley Air Quality Scientific Findings and Resource Bank

• NPR: Wildfire Contributes to Thousands of Deaths Each Year

• USGS Invasive Species and Wildland Fire

• USGS: EarthExplorer

• USGS: EarthNow!

• USGS: EROS History Project

• USGS: Erosion and Runoff