a glimpse into what happened to the galaxy in the past. And how
the galaxy in the past. And how
it will evolve in the future.
All right. Let’s talk about
stem science
technology, engineering and math education. It’s an area
math education. It’s an area
of increasing importance for
students. Competency in these
areas could be a strong
indicator of future career
success. Joining us this morning to discuss secondary
morning to discuss secondary
education, science teacher,
Phil Cooke also known to his
TikTok fans as Ken teacher,
Phil with 3.8 million followers. Great to have you
followers. Great to have you
here with us this morning.
Thank you so much for joining
us.
>> Great to be here with you,
Andy.
>> All right. So let’s jump right in here. Why is STEM is
right in here. Why is STEM is
so important for students?
>> Just like you mentioned, the
area of job growth. When you
look at jobs and they’re going
to get students are going to
going into when they graduate college or high school, they’re
college or high school, they’re
all going to be more than half
of them related to science,
technology, engineering or
math, medically related sealed.
It’s really important that we start to expose them to
start to expose them to
activities and get them
interested and curious about
the scientific world around
them because that’s likely in
the avenue they’re going to pursue a job later on in life.
pursue a job later on in life.
>> Okay. So I want to talk
about your following on TikTok
here. First, what made you
decide to join TikTok and what
are you trying to achieve
through social media >> like anything else that else
>> like anything else that else
your students tend to be pretty
good.
Influencers on their teacher.
So for me, it was a student
telling I think you should put this demonstration on TikTok.
this demonstration on TikTok.
So that’s how I got started.
But what I really see it as now
as an avenue for me to engage
people from all over the world,
make them curious about the world around them and help them
world around them and help them
see how they can take some
things that they but I think
are very interesting and
actually have a world of
different possibilities and
different experiments you can
do at home with something as
simple as a like a pilot,
friction pen. The ink inside.
These is their most sensitive.
And that’s how the race is
using heat. And we’ve developed
through the curriculum design
experts at STEM DOT Org, a
series of lesson plans that
teachers can use and families
can use at home to take and a
reasonable for most sensitive ink pen and do all kinds of fun
ink pen and do all kinds of fun
science experiments with them.
>> Are there some tools that
are are good for learning?
Stand that help with stem
learning? >> I think any tool that helps
>> I think any tool that helps
engage students mind and keep
some curious. It’s going to be
a valuable tool. So something
as simple as like a pen they
might use for classes every day and you show them, hey, you
day and you show them, hey, you
can actually use the ink that’s
incited to tell you where
something is hot and where it’s
cold. I think it opens up a
brand new avenue of curiosity
with students and so taking
those things that they might normally use and never think
normally use and never think
about and showing them. There’s
a lot more behind the scenes
is a way to get them involved
in stem.
>> Yeah. Tapping into that sense of curiosity and engaging
sense of curiosity and engaging
them is so critical. All right.
Let’s talk about the friction
for good challenge. What is it
and how can people participate? >> So the friction for good
>> So the friction for good
challenges again, aim towards
getting kids exposed to stem
experiences early on in life.
And so there’s 2 ways that you
can help participate in the challenge and both of them
challenge and both of them
involve doing activities that
will result in a donation that
goes towards girls who code.
So the first way is you can buy
some packs of the color stick friction pens, like the one I’m
friction pens, like the one I’m
holding right here.
>> So the 10 pack at Walmart
and Target and for a pilot will donate. 25 1% of their profits
donate. 25 1% of their profits
up to $60,000 to girls who
code. And if you go in Amazon,
it’s a 16 pack that you be
looking for the second way.
And the way I think is actually
a lot of fun. Get your family
involved and make a little
TikTok on this. So there’s a lot of signs that you can do.
lot of signs that you can do.
And if you’re if you’re
curious, like, how do I get
started with it, you go to
friction, stem dot com to find all of these activities.
all of these activities.
So make a video posted on
Instagram posted on TikTok and
add the hashtag friction for
good. So that’s Fri acts.
and for good and for every in feed post on TikTok or
feed post on TikTok or
Instagram that has that hashtag
pilot will donate an additional
$5 up to that Maxim $60,000 to girls who code. So you have
to girls who code. So you have
some fun, learn some science
and you’ll be benefiting the
STEM communities. Well, yeah,
I’m making it fun is a way to
everybody involved.
>> Phil Cooke cam teacher Phil on TikTok. Thank you so much