{"id":177,"date":"2010-12-09T11:57:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T15:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/?p=177"},"modified":"2010-12-09T11:57:11","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T15:57:11","slug":"prototype-activities-for-stem-box-debuted-to-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/09\/prototype-activities-for-stem-box-debuted-to-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Prototype Activities for STEM Box Debuted to Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_2480-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-194\" title=\"IMG_2480 2\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_2480-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_2480-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_2480-2-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>With activities for a brand new Biology in a Box K-12 unit on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) under development, several members of the Biology in a Box team traveled to Nashville to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsta.org\/conferences\/2010nas\/\" target=\"_blank\">Area Conference for the National Science Teacher&#8217;s Association<\/a> to gauge teachers&#8217; reactions to the new activities. <a href=\"http:\/\/eeb.bio.utk.edu\/biologyinbox\/\" target=\"_blank\">Biology in a Box<\/a> creator and project director <a href=\"http:\/\/eeb.bio.utk.edu\/riechert.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Susan Riechert<\/a> presented the new hands-on activities, which capitalize on examples from the field of biomimicry, a design discipline that studies and emulates natural systems to create technology. As the conference theme was &#8220;Sound Science: Southern Style,&#8221; activities involving animal sound production were highlighted. These included a popular video of the mating call of a jumping spider, which uses three varieties of sound production in combination during its dramatic song. <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/personnel\/lenhart\" target=\"_blank\">Suzanne Lenhart<\/a>, professor of mathematics at the University of Tennessee and associate director for education, outreach and diversity at NIMBioS, presented the &#8220;M&#8221; part of the STEM activities: student exploration of math concepts using sound wave graphs and sound measurements. Kelly Moran, education and outreach coordinator at NIMBioS, described additional <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/education\/pre-college\" target=\"_blank\">opportunities for teachers<\/a> at NIMBioS. Biology in a Box sets are now in 80 school districts in Tennessee and several surrounding states. &#8220;Box Keepers,&#8221; designated teachers who store sets of boxes and handle loans to others interested teachers, are still being sought for several counties in Tennessee. To view a map of participating county school systems in Tennessee and a current list of Box Keepers for each county, <a href=\"http:\/\/eeb.bio.utk.edu\/biologyinbox\/schools.htm\" target=\"_blank\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With activities for a brand new Biology in a Box K-12 unit on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) under development, several members of the Biology in a Box team traveled to Nashville to the Area Conference for the National &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/09\/prototype-activities-for-stem-box-debuted-to-teachers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,14,6],"tags":[5,101,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}