To all the educators promoting science & sustainability in your schools - you mean the world to us! 🌎♻️ #ThankYouThursday #EnvironmentalEducationWeek

It's a small patch, but a big game-changer for farming. Researchers from NC State University developed an electronic patch that can be applied to leaves to monitor crops for pathogens and environmental stresses. bit.ly/3LgKCNy #NSFfunded 📸Qingshan Wei, NC State University

Saving our planet would really mean the world to me. #EarthDay

They are finally here! 🦆As we learn about these adorable ducklings, our daily #STEAM challenge was to use the #designthinking process to create something to help the🦆in & out of the pool. #ReadAloud 🎶“Swim Swim Sink” Novel Effect 📚🎶 We also #Code🦆 ScratchJr Instructional Technology Initiative

Our naturalists & scientists need your help! They must find a solution to a real-world ecological disaster that caused oil spill in the ocean💦Can you help? What are the consequences? #SDG14 Global Citizens Open Innovation 'SDGs Challenge' Dr. Jennifer Williams #GoalsProject

#SaturdaySpotlight We love to see these cold stunned turtles making their way back to open waters. 📷: bluefinartisty (Instagram)

Got to try out the #ShakeTable for the first time today! After testing we looked at the data on the “seismograph”! #STEM #StructuralEngineers #ForceMotionStandards

What happens when you decide to grow tomatoes, onions, and cilantro in your #SchoolGarden? You have a chips and salsa party on the last day of #ClubSERVE! This has been a great year! #HealthyChoices #Gardening ArborRidgeK8_OCPS OCPS Sustainability ocpsnews

Ever wonder how biodiverse NC is? We've got mountains, forests, coasts, and more; and it's all brimming with life! Get a snapshot of some our natural treasures right as you walk into the Nature Exploration Center. 🤩🌿☠️🐟🎩🦜 #NCNatureFriday

Fourth graders learned about animal adaptations, planned fictional critters, created custom heads with ⁦Glowforge⁩, used ⁦Tinkercad⁩ designed parts, assembled & painted, and wrote descriptive plaques.

Our pumpkin plant has flowered. We have both male & female flowers! The 2nd graders Henderson @bostonschools have been checking the life cycle daily! Yay to our #Fo2 curriculum from BPS Early Learning for encouraging us to explore plants & pollinators.

Current student project: using custom shapes in Tinkercad students are designing custom Funko pops of characters in their short stories.

Happy Eclipse Day!

World Ocean Day is this Saturday, June 8! Learn about the impacts of marine debris, climate change, and ways to help our oceans. Celebrate with presentations, activities, and animal encounters. Free with NC Aquarium admission or membership: bit.ly/3W0Vp4c

Are you a North Carolina science teacher leader who is excited/nervous/stressed about teaching with new standards next year? Come join our new network so we can work together to figure it out! We are meeting on June 26 from 1 to 3 on Zoom. Spread the word! forms.gle/sxLUuRWi5PGA9b…

I just want all the science professional development that the world has to offer

On this beautiful #WorldOceansDay don’t forget to celebrate the “nurseries of the seas”—#Estuaries ! 🪼 So lucky to have had ImpartedJoyLLC illustrate EMERSYN BLAKE AND THE STALKED JELLYFISH! ❤️ #EmersynBlake #STEM collazocove.com/books

Swim into Sea Turtle Week June 8-16! There's seven different species of sea turtles? This week we’ll tell you about a different sea turtle each day! We’ll share info about the threats they are facing and ways we can help them #SeaTurtleWeek #SAFESeaTurtles ncaquariums.com/pks-newsroom/p…