Inspiring STEM Lessons for Environmental Awareness
Dive into engaging STEM lessons focused on environmental awareness and sustainability. Discover the inspiring stories of individuals like Isatou Ceesay who transformed their communities by addressing plastic waste. Explore creative ways to reduce, reuse, and reinvent materials, while also learning about conceptual artwork using e-waste. Join the movement to make a positive impact on the planet through education and innovative solutions.
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Introduction One woman s efforts to rid her Gambian village of trash sparks a recycling movement in this uplifting tale inspired by true events. As a girl, Isatou admired the colors and myriad uses of the plastic bags that began to proliferate in her community. But years later, the same plastic bags, festering in trash heaps or floating through the air, have become a menace to humans and animals. https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-4677-1608-6
As you listen to the story, Try to answer the following questions; How did she reinvent plastic bags? Why did she replace or change the plastic bags? Make a list of plastics used daily at your home, add ways to reinvent or reuse them. Make a list of ways to reduce the use of plastic in your home.
3 Rs To deal with the pollution of trash on Earth we can follow the 3R s: 1.Reduce or 1.Refuse 2.Reuse 2.Reinvent 3.Recycle 3.Replace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B6p04Zph04 One Plastic Bag This video is about One Plastic Bag One Plastic Bag This video is about One Plastic Bag
STEM AT HOME How do you make artwork that is conceptual? Artist Robb Godshaw uses technical means to move things that can t be moved, or make visible things that aren t normally visible. Watch as Godshaw scavenges electronic waste during an artist residency at SF Recology. E-waste into Art with Robb Godshaw Click here for more: https://wp.me/p4AWsA-eh Robb Godshaw makes artwork that is conceptual and, as he describes, Uses technical means to move things that can t be moved, or make visible things that aren t normally visible. During an artist residency at SF Recology, which houses San Francisco s dump, Godshaw scavenged electronic waste, most of which was functional. https://scetv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/d231cb0a-15c3-43ab-a99d-6e253c5c1e31/e-waste-into-art-with-robb-godshaw/ 6
After we watch the video, Answer these questions; 1. What is E-waste? 1. What kinds of things does Robb Godshaw make from e- waste? 1. How is what Robb Godshaw does similar to what Isatou Ceesay did in the book One Plastic Bag? 1. How is what Robb Godshaw does different to what Isatou Ceesay did in the book One Plastic Bag? 1. What discarded items do you think you could use to make art? 7
Place your screenshot here Thanks Sabrina.Branch@robeson.k12.nc.us 8
