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November 1, 2020

View the November edition of the Smithsonian Science Education Center's newsletter here: https://mailchi.mp/453ad4eff90c/november-909450

In this Bloomberg Sustainable Business Briefing, we’ll examine how companies and Gen Z can connect to build the better working world of the future. How should business engage with the next generation to support their passion for sustainability and equality? Can we respond to and act on their priorities today in order to secure a better tomorrow? SSEC Director, Carol O’Donnell, will participate in a panel conversation led by a Bloomberg journalist discussing how to educate, inform and support the workforce of the future.

November 6, 2020

SSEC Science Curriculum Developer Dr. Sarah Glassman and Digital Producer Ryan Seymour co-authored in a new article for Science and Children, a journal by the National Science Teaching Association. The article, “Virtual Sungazing”, explains how first graders use 360-degree photographs to view the Sun's apparent daily pattern of motion across the sky. Activities from the Smithsonian Science for the ClassroomTM module, How Can We Predict When the Sky is Dark? and Smithsonian Science Education Center’s free simulation, Sunlight on the National Mall, were both featured in the article.

November 9, 2020

Filament Games has featured SSEC in a "Resource Roundup: Free Learning Game Resources for Educators" article. SSEC's STEM-based games and simulations are available online or for download at no cost to teachers and students.

Join the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation for a week-long webinar series drawing renewed attention to historic and contemporary inventors of color and Black technology consumers, while discussing strategies for building a more equitable innovation ecosystem.

Visit https://invention.si.edu/black-inventors-and-innovators-new-... for more information.

NOVEMBER 16-20, 1:00-2:30 pm ET, DAILY

Session Schedule:

November 18, 2020

Common Sense Media recently gave "Pick Your Plate! A Global Guide to Nutrition" a four-star rating.

"Pick Your Plate! A Global Guide to Nutrition" is an educational nutrition game that will help teach students about building healthy meals while using nutritional guidelines from countries around the world. Pick Your Plate! is now available in both English and Spanish.

Read more: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/app-reviews/pick-your-plate...

November 20, 2020

The InterAcademy Partnership featured the Smithsonian Science for Global Goals project in its annual overview of the work of IAP.

The Food! How Do We Ensure Good Nutrition For All? module was developed in partnership with the IAP as part of the Smithsonian Science for Global Goals project. These Smithsonian Science for Global Goals community research guides use the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a framework to focus on sustainable actions that are defined and implemented by students.

The Smithsonian Science Education Center recently launched Pick Your Plate! Guía Global de Nutrición! This game educates players about dietary guidelines by highlighting the food, currency, music, and nutritional guidelines from eight different countries across the world. Students are invited to virtually travel and eat their way across the world as they are exposed to a variety of food facts from each country. From tubers in Benin to avocados in Australia, learn why each food item is significant to its respective nation through Pick Your Plate! and beyond.

November 20, 2020

Canvas, a tool used to generate educational videos led by an intelligent virtual agent, is used to create the SSEC’s Ada Asks video series. Canvas was developed by the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies and discussed in an Association for Computing Machinery article.

December 1, 2020

The Technology and Natural Sciences in Schools (TuWaS! in German) project has collaborated with the Smithsonian Science Education Center (SSEC's) to translate SSEC's "COVID-19! How can I protect myself and others?" module for youth into German and disseminate it throughout the nation. TuWaS! was established in the Rhineland by the Bonn/Rhein-Sieg and Cologne chambers of industry and commerce in Germany. Together with committed companies and sponsors from the region they support hands-on teaching and learning of science in more than 142 schools, serving more than 24,000 local school children. TuWaS! is an initiative of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Free University of Berlin, which is responsible for the content-related and pedagogical concepts of TuWaS! and scientifically monitors the project in Cologne/Bonn. The "COVID-19!" module for youth was developed by the SSEC in collaboration with the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) and is available for free in 25 languages.

December 1, 2020

View the December edition of the Smithsonian Science Education Center's newsletter here: https://mailchi.mp/a15574155cda/givingtuesday1-909458.

Ali Cirik is a Wireless Technology Specialist at Ofinno.

December 12, 2020

The Smithsonian Science Education Center, with support from the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative, and Johnson & Johnson has released Stories of Women in STEM at the Smithsonian. This ebook highlights the largely untold stories of women’s contributions to science and innovation. From aerospace engineer and mathematician Mary Golda Ross to Smithsonian ornithologist Dr. Carla Dove, readers will learn how women have defied gender stereotypes and overcome structural barriers to advance the STEM industry in the past, and how their current work creates a more inclusive future.

December 15, 2020

"Pick Your Plate! A Global Guide to Nutrition" was featured in a blog post from the Wilson Center Science and Technology Innovation Program highlighting serious games victories from 2020. The post that notes that while the game was released in 2019, the Spanish-language localization and major updates were released in 2020.

"Pick Your Plate! A Global Guide to Nutrition" is an educational nutrition game that will help teach students about building healthy meals while using nutritional guidelines from countries around the world. Pick Your Plate! is now available in both English and Spanish.

Remote learning, as a result of the global pandemic, has brought topics of diversity, accessibility, equity and inclusivity to the fore of conversations concerning the state of education. The pivot to fully virtual and hybrid instructional settings has pushed educators to find new solutions to challenges related to accessible and inclusive STEM learning.

December 17, 2020

The 2020 Progress Report for the Committee on STEM (CoSTEM) Education references the Smithsonian Science Education Center's work to diversify the K-12 STEM Teaching Workforce. Page 9 of the report states, "Through a public-private partnership, the Smithsonian is helping school districts develop strategic plans to attract and retain STEM teachers from underrepresented groups, with the goal of reaching 30,000 new and existing STEM teachers by 2030."

Yunjung Yi’s lifelong interest in STEM has been in mathematics—the “M” part of the acronym. In her mid-elementary school years, she was drawn to solving math problems with “determined” answers, those that are logical and where a single answer exists.

October 2020

Nebraska Association of Teachers of Science

The Global Classroom

As we anticipate the start of 2021, we’d like to reflect on the year of 2020 and what we’ve accomplished with your support:

2020 Summit Paves the Way for Diversifying the K-12 STEM Teaching Workforce