This week’s Black In STEM Canadian scientists include Dr Juliet Daniels, an amazing researcher and leader at McMaster university, and Dr Eugenia Duodu, who encourages youth like her to participate in STEM education. Her TED talk, An Unlikely Scientist, is worth showing to your students. Find the whole week 3 calendar (along with weeks 1 and 2) here Black-in-Stem-2021-Week-3.

Dr Juliet Daniels and the scientific team she has assembled.

Professional Learning in Science coming up

Tricky Topics in Elementary Science–Feb 22–Matter; Mar 8–Climate Change; Apr 19–Heat and Energy Transformations. Join us for a brief (one hour) session to dig in to the scientific background of these topics and learn how to stimulate student understanding, curiosity and inquiry. Sign up on the SD41 Staff Development Calendar. If you miss one (Evolution already happened), e-mail me at Donna.Morgan@burnabyschools.ca to get a link to the materials and recording.

Book Suggestion

Cece loves science and adventure!

In this STEM-themed Girls in Science picture book, Cece and her Adventure Girls troop use science, technology, engineering, and math to solve problems and earn their camping pin. For younger students, there is a picture book Cece Loves Science!

Week 2 of Black in STEM calendar includes BC’s first dentist, an order of Canada recipient and BC’s top birder.  Find it here: Black in Stem 2021 Week 2

Mystery Science

Burnaby teachers have a trial access to Mystery Science for this year. Join up here: https://mysteryscience.com/

February is Black History Month, and it is is a good place to start if you want to show students a diversity of Scientists in STEM. I’m putting together a calendar for each of the weekdays in February highlighting current and historical Black Canadians and others from around the world engaged in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. Clicking on the name links in the actual calendar gets you to some biographical information about that person. You can find the calendar at Black History STEM Week 1.  I will be updating it for each week in February.

You might also want to check out this assignment idea, A Scientist Like Me, if you want to diversify what your students think of as a mathematician or scientist.