Pete Barnes

As a STEM teacher for my Central Ohio school district, I manage a variety of gardening programs with students from first grade through high school. Many of us understand the benefits of integrating gardening into our classrooms but may not know where to start. These ideas, starting from easiest and least expensive and working up toward more complex, hopefully will enhance your classroom learning and inspire your students.

Keywords LLZO scaffold solid-state electrolyte Li-metal anode additive manufacturing digital light processing soft short Introduction Garnet-type Li7La3Zr2O12 (LLZO)-based solid-state electrolytes (SEs) have been extensively investigated as a key material for next-generation solid-state batteries (SSBs) due to their high ionic conductivity and chemical stability against Li metal.1 To achieve an energy density comparable to conventional liquid-electrolyte batteries, the ideal thickness of...

This school year has been mostly postpandemic. We have few masks and limited virtual learning in most schools. But are we back to where we were before 2020? Many teachers agree that we are not. The talk in my staff lounge (and I suspect many staff lounges across the country) is frequently about how kids have changed. Emotional fragility, lower motivation, and shorter attention spans are the most noted differences. What happened? What or whom is to blame?