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2022-2023 Clean Energy Fellows: Pacific Northwest Power Grid Cohort

This cohort of educators created unique K-12 STEM programming that leveraged community relationships, regional energy resources, regional energy and justice challenges, and industry expertise, localized to meet the needs of their learning community.

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Students sit in front of laptops. One student is holding a model car that has several syringes on top and alligator clip wiring.
A girl holds a marine wave energy generator model by the float incased in foam. Below is a plastic tube with copper wire wrapped around it. Inside the tube a magnetic hook can be seen. The tube has fishline connecting it to a suction cup stuck to a lab table.
3 sets of hands hold 2 marine wave energy generator models. 2 hands hold green foam with fishing floats in the middle. Fishing line is connected to the foam extending into plastic tubes, 1 tube is held in 2 hands and can't be clearly seen. The other tube is suspended above a black lab table, it is wrapped in red copper wire. 2 clear suction cups are on the table.
Students in a classroom. Several hold up whiteboards. The whiteboard in the front reads, "Power, Solar, Hydro, Generators, renewable energy, nuclear
A legislator a group of students and a teacher stand in front of the bench at the Oregon Legislature posing for the group photo
Man presents to a classroom seated at lab tables. On the screen is a projection of a house with the title "The Future of Energy" at the bottom of the slide it reads "Building Electrification"
On a black lab table are composition notebooks and 4 pieces of wood with electric components. 1 piece holds a 9V battery and is connected using alligator clips to a motor, connected to wood block with a light, and another wood block with a motor in a circuit.
Two adults stand in front a of classroom seated at lab tables. On the projection screen is an image of high power transmission lines and the text "CPI CONSUMERS POWER INC."
Students at a crosswalk hold a cardboard sign that reads, "SAVE OUR EARTH".
A girl uses a Power Wheel with a hose connected to a sink faucet.
2 girls stand on a blacktop outside. 1 girl holds a marine wave generator model. A square of foam connected by a fishing line to inside the plastic tube which also has a square of foam above a copper wire with a suction cup hooked to the bottom.
Outside on a blue table a student builds a marine wave energy generator model using a plastic tube sitting on a suction cup to the table. The tube is wrapped in red copper wire. the student uses fishing line to control a magnetic hook with magnets in the tube. Foam rests on the table.
Students hold a banner that reads, "FRIDAYS FOR FUTURE HONOR THE EARTH!" More students in the background, one holds cardboard signs that read, "Climate Action Now".
Students with backpacks look at a mural on a wall that has an osprey with a trout flying over a black jagged landscape with fish swimming over it and blue graffiti text in a jumble.
Boy holds a marine wave generator model made from a float, foam, fishing line, a plastic tube wrapped in copper wire, a magnetic hook and magnet with suction cup bottom.
An adult holds a posterboard with a structure showing it to students standing opposite. Text that can be read at the bottom says, " Water Withdrawal" The PGE logo is in the upper right corner.

Additional Info

Links

2022-2023 Clean Energy Fellows: Pacific Northwest Power Grid Showcase

Collaborative Partners

Citizen’s Climate Lobby
Beyond Plastics
Central Electric Cooperative
Round Butte Dam
Farmers Conservation Alliance
Bonneville Fish Hatchery
Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs
Portland Street Art Alliance
Inspired Classroom
Glacier Electric Cooperative
Oregon State University’s Marine Energy Collegiate Competition Team
Oregon State University’s Physicist for Inclusion
Consumer Power Incorporated
Oregon Science Teachers Association

Funding Partners

Bonneville Power Administration

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“  Being a CE Fellow was an extremely rewarding experience. I took part in some amazingly enriching professional development opportunities and had the support of a great staff that helped me create an engaging curriculum on clean energy. I learned a lot and was able to effectively and enthusiastically teach middle schoolers the physics of different energy sources, climate science, and even methods of environmental advocacy. The students were empowered to affect positive change in our world “

Anne-Marie Eklund

2022-2023 Clean Energy Fellow, PNW Power Grid Cohort, Bend OR

Resources from this cohort

Student holds up lime green foam circles attached to clear plastic tubes wrapped in red wire in the middle between two strips of masking tape. The green foam have a fishing bobber in the middle. A suction cup with fishing line can be seen on the table.

Modeling a Wave Energy Converter
modeling a wave energy converter

GRADE(S): 10TH, 11TH, 12TH, 7TH, 8TH, 9TH,

This teacher-designed hands-on engineering activity for grades 7-8 walks you through building a wave energy converter to explore how waves can be …

Meet the Clean Energy Fellows

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Anne-Marie Eklund

Cascades Academy, Bend OR

Dr. Anne-Marie Eklund teaches lower and middle school science and is the advisor to the 7th grade. She moved to Bend in August 2007 to start a new life far away from the big city of Miami, Florida, where she spent 17 years as a fishery biologist for NOAA-Fisheries and Everglades National Park. Although she enjoyed her career aboard ships and small boats, fishing and SCUBA diving, she has found that her true passion is teaching. Throughout her 15+ years at Cascades Academy, Anne-Marie has developed and implemented science classes for kindergarten through twelfth grade, as well as health classes and environmental electives for middle school. She has worked Stroud Institute’s WATERS program and partnered with a local Environmental Center to facilitate their “Earth-Smart” program as well as the Upper Deschutes Watershed’s Council through their “Salmon-Watch” and “Students Speak: Watershed Summit” programs for her students. her life’s passion is raising awareness of environmental issues and making a positive change for the earth. Her most positive teaching experiences include empowering students to make a difference and inspiring them to take personal responsibility for their actions.

Line drawing of a person in front of a board with lines on it in dark blue.
Syver Pearson

Cascades Academy, Bend, OR

Syver served as the high school science teacher at Cascades Academy and developed hands-on lessons for his Environmental Science students around clean energy and sustainability with immersive experiences and project-based learning.

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Stacey Zaback

Luckiamute Valley Charter School, Dallas OR

Before working as a 6-8 grade science, art, and technology teacher in her rural community, Stacey worked in a group home for adults with developmental disabilities for many years, and enjoyed learning from her clients and teaching them life skills. Working with adults with disabilities provided her with an opportunity to teach individuals on many cognitive levels. When her son started elementary school, she began volunteering in his classroom and realized she loved participating in student inquiry and learning and she returned to school to earn the degrees to become a classroom educator, focusing on place-based and project-based learning. In her first year as a 4th and 5th grade teacher, she piloted the Engineering is Elementary curriculum out of the Boston Museum of Science, which actively engaged her students in science through reading, dialogue, argumentation, and activities and began to design, implement, and adapt her science curriculum for her learners. She transitioned to middle school and was awarded the OMSI science teacher of the year in 2016, and the 4 H Wildlife Stewardship award in 2019 for leadership, and was a national and state finalist for Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Teaching in 2023. She works with her students and partner teachers in the Ukraine to bring engaging robotics experiences to their students- even when they’re learning out of bomb shelters.

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Kari Hinkle

Cut Bank High School, Cut Bank MT

Since graduating from college with a biology degree and certifications in biology and broadfield science, Kari has applied her lifelong love of learning to expand her own content knowledge to include engineering standards, Blackfeet culture, robotics, and CTE. She has participated in NSF’s Research Experience for Teachers, working directly with staff at MSU-Bozeman on their research with the structural properties of 3D printed material and bringing this content into her engineering design process for her students. As a science educator, Kari believes in providing growth opportunities for her students that have a real-life applications that will help them to face the challenges of their generation, primarily due to climate change and the ever-growing energy needs of the human population.

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Bess Hjartarson

Cut Bank High Shcool, Cut Bank MT

Bess has been teaching science for 10 years. Her goals as a science teacher are to provide an immersive, hands-on learning environment where my students feel welcome, safe, and comfortable learning and practicing their STEM skills. She believe that students learn best when doing, so in her classroom and lab they do a lot of “doing.” In addition to teaching in the classroom, Bess is also the Science Olympiad Advisor, the CBHS AISES (American Indian Science and Engineering Society) Advisor, and the coordinator of the CBHS/CBMS MakerSpace (which she co-created with the CBMS Principal). Bess was also a member of the Golden Triangle Curriculum Cooperative Science Revision Committee when they were tasked with revising Montana’s science standards in accordance with the national Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).