August 2022 Newsletter
Monthly roundup: Lesson Ideas podcast, Ask-a-Scientist, and reducing environmental footprint.
Hello,
Happy August! It’s almost time to kick off the new school year. To welcome you back to school, we’re excited to announce the launch of our brand new podcast: Lesson Ideas! Lesson Ideas is aimed to help you effectively navigate our resources by highlighting our adapted articles and activities and providing teaching tips. To learn more, read this blog post and listen to our welcome episode!
This month, we also have some new videos in our Ask-A-Scientist interview series. This one from NASA researcher Dr. Gioia Massa is about what it’s like to grow plants in space:
We also have this video from Dr. Lexi Suppes explaining what we can do to fight the issue of gender discrimination:
That’s not all!
We also have five new adapted scientific articles:
In How can we reduce our environmental footprint one food at a time? scientists studied the environmental impact of substituting a single food in your diet.
Alongside this article, you can use this blog post for ideas on teaching sustainability in the classroom and lots of related resources! #climatechange #carbonfootprint #environment
What makes you choose the food you eat? is about what factors influence the dietary choices that teenagers make. This article is the second part of a series exploring food and adolescent health. Check out part one if you haven’t already! #nutrition #adolescenthealth
We also have a new series of articles on endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs).
In the first article of this series, How are chemicals impacting our reproductive health?, researchers investigated how EDCs can affect the reproductive systems of fish and mammals. #biology #reproduction #development
The second, How can chemicals influence your hormones?, addresses how EDCs get into the environment and disrupt hormone levels in our bodies. #chemistry #environmentalhealth
Finally, How do chemicals affect animals (and their kids)? details the negative effects of EDCs on different animals and their offspring. #amphibians #birds #genetics
These are high-quality FREE science teaching resources. Please, share with educators in your networks!
Happy science exploration!
Tanya Dimitrova
Founder and Editor