STEM in Environmental Education with Meridith Ebbs

Want to incorporate STEM into environmental education? Meridith Ebbs is someone to guide you through this! Meridith is a highly experienced teacher with a real passion for teaching students in natural environments whilst using different  technologies.

Hosted by Ben Newsome from Fizzics Education

About Meridith Ebbs

Meridith is an experienced teacher with a background in Education, Environmental Science and Digital Technologies. She is currently exploring applications for STEM and technology while learning outside and applications for STEM in low-cost real-world projects. She facilitates the hashtags #STEMnNature and #STEMinTheWorld on social media and shares knowledge and ideas using the handles @iMerinet and @MakeCreateEducate 

In the past, Meridith worked for 4 years as the CSER NSW Project Officer on the Digital Technologies project with the University of Adelaide. Meridith has experience teaching students K-10 and she is an experienced facilitator of adult workshops, with experience working in both school and corporate environments. She has worked as an instructional designer documenting computer systems and creating training materials. Meridith is accredited as a Makey Makey ambassador, an Apple Teacher, an Apple Teacher in Swift Playground and Sphero Lead Educator. 

Contact Meridith

https://withkoji.com/@iMerinet  - one link for all contacts

https://www.instagram.com/imerinet/

https://www.facebook.com/makecreateeducate

https://twitter.com/iMerinet

https://www.youtube.com/c/MeridithEbbsiMerinet/videos

https://makecreateeducate.blogspot.com/

More information about Meridith

https://imerinet.weebly.com/

Resources for more information

What is Citizen Science - https://citizenscience.org.au/10-principles-of-citizen-science/

Project Finder

https://www.csiro.au/en/education/get-involved/citizen-science

https://citizenscience.org.au/ala-project-finder/

https://biocollect.ala.org.au/acsa#isCitizenScience

Projects mentioned

International:

Great Southern Bioblitz 2022 https://www.greatsouthernbioblitz.org/about-1

iNaturalist https://www.inaturalist.org/

Backyard Bioblitz https://www.backyardbio.net/

Australian:

Frog ID Project https://www.frogid.net.au/

Dead Tree Project ​​https://biocollect.ala.org.au/acsa/project/index/77285a13-e231-49e8-b212-660c66c74bac

About the FizzicsEd podcast

Hosted by Ben Newsome from Fizzics Education

With interviews with leading science educators and STEM thought leaders, this science education podcast is about highlighting different ways of teaching kids within and beyond the classroom. It's not just about educational practice & pedagogy, it's about inspiring new ideas & challenging conventions of how students can learn about their world!

https://www.fizzicseducation.com.au/

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