tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59971237515850663832023-11-16T06:21:58.624-08:00Island Energy InquiryDiana Papini Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08530443670904788139noreply@blogger.comBlogger111125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5997123751585066383.post-7445025478237347802015-09-23T17:05:00.003-07:002015-09-23T17:05:47.889-07:00Brand-new vimeo of Island Energy Inquiry!<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/139833906" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">https://vimeo.com/139833906</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span>Women In Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045066507047659597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5997123751585066383.post-50449017297966991362015-09-14T19:13:00.000-07:002015-09-14T19:13:00.838-07:00Working with Maui Electric towards energy prosperityOur Island Energy Inquiry team worked alongside Maui Electric Company at their Electric Energy Fair to help families discover the path to energy prosperity. Can you hand-crank our turbine and convert it to a table fan?<br />
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Mahalo!Women In Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045066507047659597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5997123751585066383.post-36209308988590110592015-04-23T18:18:00.003-07:002015-04-23T18:23:42.312-07:00STEM Success: For all?<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I enjoyed Alfred Hall’s commentary (April/May 2015 <i>The
Science Teacher</i>). He’s done a nice job of showing the importance of
educating STEM students—both the ‘best and brightest’ and everyone else.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">My reasons for agreeing are more social than strictly
educational. I actually became a 17-year science teacher because of what
I saw during a 19-year career as an engineering manager and executive. I
was dismayed at how ‘uncool’ it had become for American students to embrace
science and engineering. I hired many young engineers, and increasingly
they’d been educated abroad and had come to America to fill our gaping need for
technical professionals. Where were our own professionals?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Taking college campus tours with our son, I would hear our
campus tour guides pointing out the dorms, library, or campus performing arts
center with pride. Then we’d pass the engineering school (at a distance)
and the guide would say, in effect, “There’s the engineering school. We
see the freshmen disappear there and show up at graduation…we have no idea what
happens to them in between.” The not-subtle message steers young people
away from STEM—almost horrifying them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As a science teacher then, I had a combined mission.
Rather than try to turn everyone into scientists, I instead wanted them to
appreciate the possible ‘cool-ness’ of the sciences. I got everyone in
our class doing science, asking and answering their own questions, learning the
way scientists learn. But my message was straightforward.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Science (STEM) is not for everyone. We want those who
have the natural STEM talent and disposition to understand that a technical
career can be very cool, enjoyable and rewarding. We want another tier of
mechanically-gifted people to enjoy becoming technicians, mechanics,
experimenters and to know their talents are valued and rewarded by society.
And we want everyone else—the artists, actors, poets, historians,
accountants—to be comfortable knowing and working with ‘nerds’ because we are
not nearly so nerdy as we seem, and we’re actually doing cool things that all
students can and should experience in middle and high school.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Lately, I’ve been concerned with the backlash that STEM is
starting to get, as STEM programs succeed in attracting funding and student
interest. Schools want to add Arts to STEM, making it STEAM. And
add reading skills (STREAM) and maybe music (STREAMM?) because educators worry
there’s a big pendulum in education that can only swing one way or the
other. False! We’re not trying to grab humanities students and
force them into STEM pathways. That would be crazy. We just need to
create awareness among all our students on how to either pursue STEM careers
(with the natural disposition of those few students and with society’s approval
of them) or pursue totally different fields (with a clear fondness for their
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We need to be a society with members capable to figure things out and make
things work—to produce. Our courses in science and math help prepare some
specialists for their further technical training, and help the rest of society
understand the part played by scientists, engineers, and technicians.
Similarly, our science majors need to know that building a physical framework
is only a part of society’s output. Cars, spaceships, computers, and
particle accelerators are all tools and devices that serve us while we also
advance arts, culture, philosophy, religion, or even entertainment and
recreation. Students in my courses will hear my views of where their classes
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Women In Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045066507047659597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5997123751585066383.post-18904469676824365022015-03-09T13:03:00.000-07:002015-03-09T13:03:07.936-07:00Hawaii's Warm SunThese are illustrations within a new IEI module for Kindergarten, titled "Hawaii's Warm Sun" which bases the NGSS standards for grade K on energy we use from the sun in Hawaii. In this lab activity, students explore the effects of bright sunlight on colors of construction paper.<br />
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Women In Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045066507047659597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5997123751585066383.post-82576429981434669822015-03-09T12:45:00.001-07:002015-03-09T12:45:29.360-07:00Kaua`i Training PhotosOur teachers on Kaua`i are documenting their inquiry learning through iPad photos. This group was learning Island Energy Inquiry as part of the Ka Hei statewide project with our partners OpTerra Energy Services.<br />
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This IEI workshop at Kaua`i Community College was hosted by OpTerra Energy Systems as part of the Ka Hei project now being piloted. During part of our studies, we worked with Bob Conti, one of the state's top training resources in solar energy and a great friend of the program. Check out the flow of water from the pump that Bob is powering with a Photovoltaic panel!Women In Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045066507047659597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5997123751585066383.post-82662761327501385282014-09-16T14:54:00.000-07:002014-09-16T14:54:00.631-07:00Young scientists explore wind power!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dozens of young scientists and their families built wind-turbine pinwheels at IEI's display center on Saturday, part of Maui Electric's Energy Fair. These students were able to use their own pinwheel designs to harness energy from the wind!Women In Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045066507047659597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5997123751585066383.post-28164875168143461252014-09-09T15:07:00.003-07:002014-09-09T15:07:37.599-07:00Asia experiences IEI!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Women In Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045066507047659597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5997123751585066383.post-18922208143883507662014-07-14T14:48:00.000-07:002014-07-14T14:49:50.978-07:00Harnessing the sun?What variables affect the power we can take from sunlight with PV panels in series? In parallel? Our teachers learn for themselves (as scientists do) during our Oahu workshop on June 26-27.<br />
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Women In Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045066507047659597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5997123751585066383.post-56237446778863876672014-06-20T11:53:00.001-07:002014-06-20T11:53:20.325-07:00Maui Teachers Modify Their ExperimentsWhat variable will you choose to test? Does your new data support our hypothesis? Teachers modify experiments to test variables and defend their results...<br />
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Women In Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045066507047659597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5997123751585066383.post-6560885911659621852014-05-12T14:08:00.000-07:002014-05-12T14:08:18.949-07:00Tell your teaching friends: IEI workshops this summer!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Aloha all, please let your teaching friends know that we'll be offering full, 2-day Island Energy Inquiry workshops on Maui and Oahu over the summer break. Please have a look at the flier, and get in touch with Denissa 808.270.6805 or Graham 808.270.6804. Women In Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045066507047659597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5997123751585066383.post-90163972800946005862014-03-06T10:46:00.000-08:002014-03-06T10:46:22.248-08:00Compete, thanks to KidWind!Our alert IEI teacher Carmen noticed an international competition that KidWind is sponsoring:<br />
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<u><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Energy
Here, Energy There</span></u><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Energy,
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can <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i>transfer</i></b> energy just
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">All
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turn those <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i>blades</i></b>,
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Women In Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045066507047659597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5997123751585066383.post-61845056415423415582014-01-28T16:18:00.002-08:002014-01-28T16:22:13.597-08:00On Maui: What renewable energies are leading?<a href="http://hightechmaui.com/maui-county-continues-to-lead-the-way-in-renewable-energy/">http://hightechmaui.com/maui-county-continues-to-lead-the-way-in-renewable-energy/</a> This link will take you to the latest data on important renewable energies on Maui. Solar? Wind? Geo? These and many more are clearly described and quantified by MEDB's High Tech Maui group. <br />
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We had a sunny day to visit Kawailoa Wind Farm with our friends from First Wind, Adam Young and Carolyn Unser. Sun, wind, great views, and amazing technology!<br />
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Our visiting teachers on Oahu will have a lot to share with their students. Newest blade designs minimize sound and boost performance. These are 2 . 3 megawatt (million watt) turbines!Women In Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045066507047659597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5997123751585066383.post-29576476308160355112014-01-06T13:24:00.001-08:002014-01-06T13:24:32.872-08:00Losing our marbles?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Teachers in our Oahu IEI refresher course used marbles to simulate electricity flowing through a Smart Grid. What happens to the flow of marbles from a wind farm when there's a lull? Or the flow from PV panels when a cloud appears? Will all the customers receive their marbles? Who gains, and who loses? Thanks for help from Hawaiian Electric's Sam Nichols and Cybil Rawlins.<br />Women In Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045066507047659597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5997123751585066383.post-413558957128983472013-10-17T18:04:00.000-07:002013-10-17T18:06:02.288-07:00Inquiring About Energy--On Oahu<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Artist or scientist? Kellie T. proves you can be both<br />
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Our group pauses, mid-experiment, for a photo<br />
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Using the sun's energy to pump water: Transformation of energy<br />
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You know your students are using inquiry learning if the teacher can relax in the background<br />
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Women In Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045066507047659597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5997123751585066383.post-15612628095777524362013-10-16T17:50:00.000-07:002013-10-16T17:50:08.612-07:00Star in Your Own Movie!<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__-7tpK_1wc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__-7tpK_1wc</a><br />
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Our experienced IEI teacher Melinda White, of Kihei Charter School, has just finished her first major movie production! Of course, she built the movie (it runs five minutes) around her class lesson on Photovoltaic Energy, but she gives a good overview of energy and life on the islands at the same time. Nice job, Melinda, and Roll Credits!<br />
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Women In Technologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05045066507047659597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5997123751585066383.post-14253928561329673652013-10-07T18:55:00.002-07:002013-10-07T18:55:50.860-07:00Cool Example of Teacher WebsiteOur IEI graduate Carolyn Bush has been generous in sharing her classroom website, which even has a tab for Island Energy Inquiry lessons and activities. What a nice review for her students and families, and what lucky Hawaii students to have such a creative teacher! Here's the link: <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><br />
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