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July 20, 2022
The University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H has two new STEM toolkits available for use by formal and informal educators in hands-on science-based activities with youth.
The Sky’s the Limit is designed to increase awareness and understanding of solar energy through basic circuitry; energy collection and transfer; engineering design principles; and building design challenges. It is suitable for sixth through eighth grades. Support for this toolkit is from the Maine 4-H Foundation and RLC Engineering.
The Sustainable Fishing toolkit is designed for use with grades three through five to explore and investigate what species are fished for in Maine waters and methods of finding fish, including showing how eDNA is used to detect species’ presence in the water and the…