It’s trendy to talk about the need to have more students study what are called STEM subjects. That means science, technology, engineering and math. It’s to talk about the need to connect what students learn in classrooms to what happens in the world.
It turns out those pipes in your hands and that soil under your feet will do both of those educational jobs. Connecticut teacher Laura Poidomani saw this, too, as she worked to meet science instruction guidelines set out by the state of Connecticut.
Her use of wastewater systems for teaching sixth-graders earned a Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators
