{"id":5301,"date":"2021-04-22T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/?p=5301"},"modified":"2021-04-22T08:25:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T12:25:31","slug":"earth-day-2021-bring-your-kids-pets-to-work-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/2021\/04\/22\/earth-day-2021-bring-your-kids-pets-to-work-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day 2021 & Bring Your Kids & Pets to Work Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Earth Day 2021 is also Bring Your Kids (+ pets) to Work Day and the Maryland Energy Administration (MEA)<\/a> is excited to combine the both to help share some clean energy facts and free resources for students K-12. We are excited to share several STEM career related videos to highlight career opportunities that support clean energy.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Read below for online Earth Day student resources:

Elementary school student games and activities:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Energy Match Game<\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Energy Coloring Sheets<\/strong><\/a> from the National Energy Education Department (NEED.org<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find the renewable energy sources<\/strong><\/a> or find the nonrenewable energy sources<\/strong><\/a> (correct guesses fill in with color)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Use thermal energy exchange and kinetic energy to make ice cream<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Make a solar energy oven<\/strong><\/a> from a pizza box <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Try your hand at some energy origami<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calculate your home carbon footprint<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn how to m<\/strong>anage home energy use<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Middle & High school student activities and resources:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Switch Energy Alliance Energy Education<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wind Works Challenge<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Build an Anemometer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interested in a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math career? Check out STEM career pathways<\/strong><\/a> or watch some STEM career interviews<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn more about <\/strong>Geothermal energy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn more about Wind energy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn more about Solar energy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn more about Hydro energy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn more about Biomass energy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn more about Department of Energy videos<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Happy Earth Day \/ Bring Your Kids to Work Day from MEA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earth Day 2021 is also Bring Your Kids (+ pets) to Work Day and the Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) is excited to combine the both to help share some clean energy facts and free resources for students K-12. We are excited to share several STEM career related videos to highlight  …Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":5347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[42,25,10],"tags":[83,251,252,120,158],"class_list":["post-5301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-main","category-news","tag-clean-energy","tag-earth-day","tag-k-12","tag-stem","tag-stemed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5301"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5345,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301\/revisions\/5345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}