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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Hicks, Denise | Elementary School | Presentation | Poster | Report | |
| 2021 | Martin, Travis | Middle School | Modeling Frictional Interfaces for Bio-inspired Pile Design | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2021 | Cosby, Richard | Community College | Microbial Induced Calcite Precipitation (MICP) to Enhance Soil Stabilization | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2021 | Lansing Spencer, Olivia | High School | Eat My Dust: Mitigating Fugitive Dust | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2021 | Johnson, Milton | High School | Compressive Strength of Fine Grain Soil Treated with Microbial Induced Calcium Precipitation Process | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2021 | Adams, Liz | Community College | Peer Mentor Training Program for Undergraduate Engineering Students | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2021 | Mendez, Jennifer | Elementary School | Seaweed in Engineering | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2021 | Martinez Salinas, Heber | Community College | Selenium Removal in a Hybrid Microbial Physicochemical System | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2021 | Seng, Harnary | Middle School | Angel-wing Clam Inspired Rock Drilling | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2021 | Rozint, Claire | Middle School | Sink or Stabilize? Cementing Soil | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2021 | Khamala, Bethuel | Community College | GUSANO: Utilitarian Subterranean Annelid Inspired Geoprobe | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2021 | Marti-Subirana, Anna | Community College | Targeting Solutions for Bioclogging Generated by Ground Water In Situ Bioremediation | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2020 | Fauss, Ashley | Middle School | Stabilizing Expansive Soils | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2020 | Trotter, Brandon | Middle School | Engineered Sandcastles | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2020 | Loya, Brianne | High School | Enzyme Induced Carbonate Precipitation to Suppress Toxic Dust Storms | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2020 | Martin, Travis | Middle School | MICP for the Masses | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2020 | Swift, Tracy | High School | How Engineers Reduce the liquefication factor to protect the soil against earthquakes | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2020 | Oglesby, Kayla | High School | Understanding Soil Formation and Strength through Ant Tunneling | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2020 | Thomas, Juanita | Middle School | Biodeposition as a Surface Treatment Method to Increase 3D Concrete Durability with Post-processing and Optimization via Machine Learning | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 2020 | Seng, Harnary | Middle School | The Hole Story: Angel Wing Clams (cyrtopleuracostata) Inspired Hard Rock Drilling | Presentation | Poster | Report |
| 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 | 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 |
