Format
A STEMExplore Virtual Career Connection with Dr. Theresa Guillette Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University.
1. This program will begin with a brief overview of EarthEcho International and STEM careers
2. The featured STEMExplore Mentor will tell us their story, where they came from and how they became interested in their career.
3. We will learn about the STEMExplore Mentor's career and how their work contributes to a sustainable future.
4. Participants will be able to ask questions and interact with the featured speaker via chat and interactive video.
Objectives
During this 45-minute session, the participants will:
- Learn about environmental health and toxicology as a career in general;
- Observe the day to day tasks of a toxicologist;
- Gain insight into a STEM career and learn the steps it takes to become a professional in this area;
- Ask interview questions of the STEMExplore expert.
Standards Alignment
National Standards
NGSS STANDARDS :
MS-ESS3-3. Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
ESS3.C: Human Impacts on Earth Systems • Human activities have significantly altered the biosphere, sometimes damaging or destroying natural habitats and causing the extinction of other species. But changes to Earth’s environments can have different impacts (negative and positive) for different living things. • Typically as human populations and per-capita consumption of natural resources increase, so do the negative impacts on Earth unless the activities and technologies involved are engineered otherwise.
MS-ESS3-4. Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systems.
Ocean Literacy Principles (OLP):
Principle 6: The ocean and humans are inextricably interconnected.
The ocean affects every human life. It supplies freshwater (most rain comes from the ocean) and nearly all Earth’s oxygen. The ocean moderates the Earth’s climate, influences our weather, and affects human health.
Everyone is responsible for caring for the ocean. The ocean sustains life on Earth and humans must live in ways that sustain the ocean. Individual and collective actions are needed to effectively manage ocean resources for all.