03.05.10 | 11:20am

Come Visit GM's Booth at NSTA 2010

Anyone out there heading to the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) 2010 National Conference in Philadelphia? General Motors will be there! Come check us out at booth 2155 from March 18-20. We'll be on site with all sorts of goodies that teachers can take back to their classrooms. And we're also bringing along the Chevy Volt chassis!

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03.05.10 | 07:47am

Teaching Alternative Fuels

Hi, I am Ron Grosinger, an alternative fuel educator at a high school in New Jersey.

Last spring, during a pilot after school club, we converted a gasoline-powered car into an electric vehicle. With the success of the club, we have expanded it to create two Alternative Fuel classes during the day. In one of these courses, I have partnered with another science teacher to create a class named The Science of Alternative Fuels where students learn the chemistry of how different fuels work. In this blog I will post lessons and success stories from my classes.

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03.05.10 | 06:02am

Trinity River Watershed Conference in Grand Prairie Texas

Early on a Saturday morning, nearly 200 students and teachers from eight schools gathered at Jackson Middle School in Grand Prairie, TX to attend the Trinity River Watershed Conference. The purpose of the event was to give both student and teachers a background on the local watershed preparing them to selecting an issue to work on for their Earth Force GM GREEN service-learning project in the Spring. With temperatures plunging to the mid-thirties in Texas, the attendees proved their passion and interest in braving the unseasonably cold weather.

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03.05.10 | 06:01am

Chemistry Everywhere

Chemistry, chemistry, chemistry everywhere. We dove into chemistry a couple weeks ago. So far we have done three labs. To teach states of matter, I used a lab I found online at the INQUIRY IN MOTION Web site. It is a free Web site through Clemson University (you have to register, but the lesson plans are free).

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02.26.10 | 07:26am

Rivers Run on Saturdays Too

Grand Prairie, Texas students began their GREEN curriculum this Spring with a Watershed Conference where they learned more about their watershed and began to think about their community activism projects. What a great way to get started! Grand Prairie ISD environmental coordinator, Tracy Hollis, along with support from the City of Grand Prairie, Texas Parks and Wildlife, the Trinity River Authority and Texas A&M, provided middle school and high school students participating in GREEN the opportunity to attend a professional style conference on a variety of water quality topics. General Motors volunteers also had the opportunity to help staff the conference, and build excitement around the GREEN program with a Chevy Hybrid Tahoe and Camaro display. The event drew nearly 200 students from eight schools on a Saturday morning! It was a great event, lots of fun and excitement, and a great learning opportunity...all around water quality education!!!

Stay tuned as our students start to apply their classroom and conference knowledge to develop their community activism projects to help local watersheds!

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