Pre-College Curriculum

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.

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Year	Name	Grade	Lesson Plan	Other Materials
2023	Garth Sommers	High School	An Exploration of a Self-Burrowing Robots Vertical Penetration into Granular Media.	Presentation \| Poster \| Report
2023	Jason Parsons	High School	EICP Busts the Dust by Forming Carbonate Crust	Presentation \| Poster \| Report
2023	Karl Ernsberger	High School	Farming on Mars Soil	Presentation \| Poster \| Report
2023	Anju Kharbanda	High School	Erosion: Don’t Let the Soil Get Carried Away	Presentation \| Poster \| Report
2023	Kristin Shelton	Middle School	Riders of the Storm	Presentation \| Poster \| Report
2023	Mano Chilkamari	High School	GT-2 Permeability of Bio-cemented Sand Mixtures	Presentation \| Poster \| Report
2022	Sanchez, Cristine	High School	Angelwing Clam Inspired Drilling	Presentation \| Poster \| Report
2022	Maslian, Demvia	High School	Biological Sliding Demonstration: Interface Friction Testing Module	Presentation \| Poster \| Report
2022	Patton, Gayla	Middle School	Does the Texture of Soil affect the Permeability and Strength of the Soil?	Presentation \| Poster \| Report
2022	Seng, Harnary	Middle School	Bio-inspired Drill Bits	Presentation \| Poster \| Report
2022	Clemens, Huda	Elementary School	Preventing Soil Erosion with Vegetation	Presentation \| Poster \| Report
2022	Karl, Kayla	High School	Exploring Microbial Induced Calcite Precipitation (MICP)	Presentation \| Poster \| Report
2022	Gordon, Nadine	High School	Professor of Biology	Presentation \| Poster \| Report
2022	Rassega, Theresa	High School	Engineering Design	Presentation \| Poster \| Report
2021	Hicks, Denise	Elementary School	Ecosystem Dynamics: Let’s Do This!	Presentation \| Poster \| Report
2021	Martin, Travis	Middle School	Modeling Frictional Interfaces for Bio-inspired Pile Design	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	Mendez, Jennifer	Elementary School	Seaweed in Engineering	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
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 4 the Classes (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
2020	All 2020 RET Teachers		Resources for Combating Racism and Injustice in K-12 STEM Education
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