The late writer David Wallace once told a tale about a passerby asking two young fish, “Morning, boys, how’s the water?” The two young fish have no idea what water is.
Nguyen Huynh and Darrell Steely worked with Guilio De Leo and Robin Elahi from Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station to develop a Planetary Health Based lesson that enabled students to make the important connection between the health of the ocean and the health of humans.
How can human-caused changes to the environment impact human health? This ETP was inspired by the research from Susanne Sokolow and Giulio De Leo along with other members of the De Leo Lab.
Carbon Passport is a small group project for high school life, earth, or environmental science classes. Students create a table top game in which players act as carbon atoms that cycle through the earth’s atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere in both biotic and abiotic forms.
Severe Weather is an online inquiry-based unit developed with the WISE (Web-based Inquiry Science Environment) platform.
Coral bleaching research is at the heart of my fellowship in the Pringle Lab at Stanford, where they study the symbiosis between reef-building corals and dinoflagellate algae. This symbiosis is crucial to the survival of coral reefs.
My mentor, Negin Ashoori, PhD, from the Luthy Group in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at Stanford University, researches the removal of pollutants from stormwater passed through different media, such as wood-chips, sand, and biochar, identifying the various types of bacteria t
This ETP is a lesson series that would follow a field trip in which data is collected on ecological values. Students will use Microsoft Excel to organize and graph data collected by their class, previous classes, and scientists.
The Smart Cities lesson will introduce students to a variety of ways in which a city can use technology to collect and analyze data.