What a year it has been! For our last week of STEM @ Home in 2020, we are highlighting some of our favorite weeks and the videos that went along with those week. In 2021, we will update and revise our STEM @ Home series. If you have any suggestions for improvements, please let our…
Author: Carol Colaninno-Meeks
Learning about the Sun

The Sun is an essential part of our lives. Without the sun, the Earth wouldn’t have an orbit, the Moon couldn’t orbit the Earth, and there wouldn’t be life on Earth! But, how much do you know about the Sun? Learn more about the Sun’s light and how the Earth orbits the Sun in this…
Voluntary Water Quality Monitoring and RiverWatch

Today’s blog post is brought to you by Xander Kalna. Now that you have learned about different habitats in streams and qualities that are important to them, we are going to talk about stream health. There are many ways to describe stream health based on dozens of variables but the easiest way (and cheapest usually!)…
Introducing Josh!

Hi everyone, my name is Josh. I am a graduate student at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) pursuing a master’s degree in environmental sciences. I work as a graduate assistant with the STEM Center on the Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA). My role within our team is to develop and maintain our noise and air…
Introducing Carolyne!

All of us at the STEM Center would like to welcome one of our new graduate assistants, Carolyne. Carolyne is joining our Environmental Health Investigators team. In this post, Carolyne has developed her Environmental PhotoVoice narrative. PhotoVoice is one of the teaching tools we will be exploring this year with participants in our Environmental Health…