{"id":8208,"date":"2021-10-06T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/?p=8208"},"modified":"2023-06-23T12:44:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T16:44:20","slug":"youth-experience-marine-science-through-4-h-stem-education-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/sans-news-releases\/youth-experience-marine-science-through-4-h-stem-education-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth experience marine science through 4-H STEM education series"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Educators in UMES Extension\u2019s 4-H STEM program<\/a> have continued to provide area youth with ways to experience STEM topics despite the challenges of the pandemic.  Brad Hartle, an agent associate with the program, recently partnered with the Maryland Business Roundtable for Education<\/a>\u2019s Next Generation Scholars Program in delivering an educational series, \u201cAn Introduction to Marine Science and a Look into Marine Biology,\u201d to 20 students in grades eight-12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe primary focus of the four-part series was to introduce youth to the world of marine science and the career paths connected to it through virtual activities and experiments,\u201d Hartle said.  \u201cIn a year filled with virtual learning, the goal was to make the real-time demonstrations seem as if the students were in the same room doing them themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participants saw an experiment on sea level change and explored shark biology during the first lesson that introduced them to marine biology.  In the following lesson, \u201cBuoyancy and Density in the Marine World,\u201d they learned how different marine animals regulate their buoyancy in the open ocean by making a Cartesian (density) diver, Hartle said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe explored the impacts that density and buoyancy have in the marine world and how humans have used that information in their own technology, such as SCUBA diving,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the favorites according to a high school junior was the lesson on anatomy.  \u201cI really loved it all, but my favorite was the squid dissection,\u201d she said.  \u201cI can see myself studying this in college.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The series culminated with an exploration of ocean currents, marine nearshore ecology and coral reef ecology.  Hartle demonstrated in a real-time experiment how ocean currents work and how water temperatures and salinities play an important role in those currents.  He also discussed the succession of organisms in nearshore environments, including sponges and seagrass, and pointed out the different types of coral and the importance of coral ecosystems and the current threats to their health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Educators in UMES Extension\u2019s 4-H STEM program have continued to provide area youth with ways to experience STEM topics despite the challenges of the pandemic.  Brad Hartle, an agent associate with the program, recently partnered with the Maryland Business Roundtable for Education\u2019s Next Generation Scholars Program in delivering an educational series, \u201cAn Introduction to Marine Science and a…Read more Youth experience marine science through 4-H STEM education series<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":18,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-8208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sans-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8208"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=8208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}