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Here’s One Way that McKinney ISD is Bringing STEM from the Real World into the Classroom

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McKinney Courier-Gazette/Audrey Henvey|
Monday, March 20, 2023
PlastiVan Educator Evan Morton discusses the science behind plastics engineering with Faubion Middle School students on Wednesday, March 16. (Audrey Henvey / Star Local Media)

PlastiVan Educator Evan Morton discusses the science behind plastics engineering with Faubion Middle School students on Wednesday, March 16. (Audrey Henvey / Star Local Media)

McKinney, Texas — “Continue being inquirers.”

Evan Morton included the three-word encouragement as he taught class on a rainy Wednesday morning in a classroom at Faubion Middle School.

It was a class that involved poking stakes through balloons and creating slime, but also discussing things like polymer chains, exothermic reactions and the properties of thermoplastics.

It was all part of a STEM program geared towards 6th graders that McKinney ISD has kicked off in partnership with the Society of Plastics Engineers…

Read the full story at the McKinney Courier-Gazette by clicking here.

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