Teacher Developed Curriculum
K-12 teachers from CBBG partner schools participated in a 5-week summer Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program in which they worked with university faculty and graduate student mentors on a biogeotechnics engineering lab project. As part of this experience, they developed grade-level appropriate instructional lessons which they then implemented in their classrooms. The following resources represent the lessons and materials developed by those partner teachers and are organized by elementary school (ES), middle school (MS), or high school (HS) grade levels.
Teacher Developed Resources for Combating Racism
During our 2020 Hybrid RET program, teachers developed and curated a list of anti-racism resources to support K-12 teachers, administration, students and staff to combat injustice in STEM education.
Instructions: Click the header rows in the table below to sort the columns as needed. The search field will look for a match of the search term across any column in the table and limit the results appropriately.| Year | Name | Grade | Lesson Plan | Other Materials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Ashley, Martina | Middle School | Winogradsky Columns: Microbial Ecosystems | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2019 | Calhoun, Mark | High School | Structural Analysis of EICP Treated 3D Printed Concrete | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2019 | Currier, Scott | Elementary School | Plants Through Crust Phenomena | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2019 | Hood, Daniel | High School | Exploring Bioremediation through Cellular Respiration | Presentation | Poster |Report |
| 2019 | Johnson, Jasmine | Elementary School | Using Jack Bean Enzyme to Increase the Rate of Cementation in Soil in EICP | Presentation | Poster |Report |
| 2019 | Lansing, Olivia | High School | Bio-inspired Geotechnics and Self-burrowing Soft Robotics | Presentation | Poster |Report |
| 2019 | Lee, Cree | Practical Application of Arachnid-inspired Geosynthesis | Presentation | Poster | Report | |
| 2019 | Seng, Harnary | Soil Searching, Investigating Soil Properties: Bio-inspiration Can Help Geotechnical Engineers Solve Problems of Building Structures on Soil | Presentation | Poster |Report | |
| 2019 | Washington, Antonia | Bio-inspired Engineering Practices (Ants Excavation) | Presentation | Poster |Report | |
| 2018 | Cullivan, Wendy | High School | Reducing Surface Porosity of Concrete | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2018 | Gensel, Jessica | Middle School | Exploring the Nitrogen Cycle | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2018 | Hall, Jason | Middle School | Tough Stuff | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2018 | Pillsbury, Finn | Middle School | A Student-Led Investigation of Ways to Reduce Soil Liquefaction | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2018 | Reding, Amanda | Middle School | Amazing Anchoring Adaptations and Analogs | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2018 | Reyna, Lance | Elementary School | Gone with the Wind | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2018 | Wood, Karrie Champneys | High School | Expanding Clay Soils | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2017 | Aragon, Natalie | Middle School | Soil and Water Contamination: Can We Clean It Up? | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2017 | Batchelder, Stephen | Middle School | Shake it Up Liquefaction | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2017 | Clemens, Steven | Middle School | Fugitive Dust Prevention | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2017 | Elder, Renee | Community College | Let's Get Dirty with Soil | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2017 | Gerrick, Michelle | Middle School | What Size is My Soil? | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2017 | Haduch, Anthony | Elementary School | Optimal Cement Mixture | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2017 | Rumann, Susan | Middle School | What's Shakin'? | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2017 | Sandys, Micah | High School | Bio-inspired Problem-Solving | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2017 | Thacker, Quinn | Community College | Microbes Facilitate Chain Elongation | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2016 | Andrews, Angela | High School | Wind-Blown Soil Particles | Presentation | Poster |
| 2016 | Cherry, Amanda | High School | Applications of Anaerobic Bacteria | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2016 | Clemens, Steven | Middle School | Soil Stabilization and Environmental Impact | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2016 | Currier, Scott | Elementary School | Soil Comparison | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2016 | Dash, Sagarika | Community College | Exploring Soil Microbial Diversity for Bioremediation | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2016 | Jones-Lawrence, Tara | High School | Root System Evaluation for Foundation Bio-Inspiration | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2016 | Macias, Gabriel | Middle School | Fugitive Dust Control | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2016 | Perla, Carlos | Elementary School | Design a Filtration System | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2016 | Planter, Angenette | High School | Ants vs. Humans Bio-Inspired Engineering | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2016 | Rahman, Afroza | High School | From Trash to Energy: A Sustainable Way to Manage Your Everyday Waste | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2016 | Reher, Rebecca | Elementary School | Creating a Bio-Inspired Solution to Plant Erosion | Presentation | Poster | Report |
