Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) - GLOBE is a worldwide network of K-12 students who work under the guidance of GLOBE-trained teachers to make a core set of environmental observations at or near their schools and report their data via the Internet. GLOBE environmental measurements are in the following study areas: Atmosphere, Hydrology, Land Cover, Soils, GPS, and Seasons. Scientists use GLOBE data in their research and provide feedback to the students to enrich their science education. Each day, images created from the GLOBE student data sets are posted on the World Wide Web, allowing students and visitors to the GLOBE Web site to visualize the student environmental observations. Teachers and students from over 6,500 schools in over 80 countries currently participate in GLOBE. An interagency team manages GLOBE, which includes NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Departments of Education and State. There is no cost to participate in the GLOBE Program. However, schools must support participation by one or more teachers to attend a GLOBE Training Workshop and make available to students the equipment for taking measurements and Internet access for reporting their data. Contact: GLOBE Program, 744 Jackson Place, Washington, DC 20503; Phone: (800) 858-9947; Email: info@globe.gov (Added: 22-May-1999 Hits: 1412) [Spider search][grade levels: all]

 Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) - Institute on Climate and Planets (ICP) - Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) - ICP's mission is to contribute an innovative model for teaching and learning science that connects NASA's climate system research to national science standards and foster the professional/academic advancement of minority students in the sciences. The ICP is conducted in collaboration with the City University of New York (CUNY), Columbia University, New York City Public Schools, and Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Student Research Interns and Faculty Fellows are competitively selected from New York City area pre-college and college institutions and given tangible roles on GISS research teams organized to advance our understanding of climate forcings and natural variability that produce climate change. Activities during Summer Institutes (six-eight weeks) and an Academic Year Program (GISS- and school-based) are designed to facilitate research projects and develop relevant science skills and content understandings. Annually, student researchers at GISS and/or ICP schools make presentations at science fairs, regional and national science competitions and the ICP Spring and Summer Conferences. ICP students view research experiences as a means to their advancement in the science pipeline, with program alumni now entering highly competitive schools and job markets. Throughout the year, ICP faculty and GISS scientists collaborate to produce student projects and lessons, as well to share them at professional meetings and conferences. With the support of NASA's Minority University-SPace Interdisciplinary Network Resource Training Site at the City College of New York (CCNY), ICP schools are gaining the technical competencies and resources needed to participate in an electronically connected research and education network. An Earth Climate Teacher Education Course and school-based Teacher Institutes are the newest components under development. The context for the course and institutes is to examine the Earth's climate as an evolving, dynamic system by investigating how the input solar radiation interacts with the system characteristics to produce the output climate conditions. Partnerships with Columbia University, CUNY and New York City Urban Systemic Initiative are contributing to these teacher courses and institutes. Contact: Carolyn Harris, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2880 Broadway, New York, NY 10025; Phone: (212) 678-5653; Fax: (212) 678-5552; Email: charris@giss.nasa.gov (Added: 14-Jun-1999 Hits: 874) [Spider search][grade levels: 9-12|post-secondary]

 Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Teacher Intern Program - Local Maryland teachers are selected by application and work with scientists, mathematicians, computer technologists, and engineers for six weeks each summer. The teacher will learn about the scientist's project and will develop an educational component- past educational projects have included video animation and lab experiments. This internship is developed as a partnership, therefore the teacher and the scientist will determine their working relationship. Final selection is determined by an interview with the scientist. Eligible participants are local certified teachers, who have been teaching for a minimum of two years, and have competent computer skills. Applications are due in late February each year to the Prince George's County Public School Science Office, attention James Strandquist. Approximately ten teachers are selected for the summer internship; many are placed with GSFC's Earth Science Directorate. Contacts: Elaine Lewis, Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 130.3, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771; Phone: (301) 286-7356; Fax: (301) 286-1707; Email: elewis@pop100.gsfc.nasa.gov James Strandquist, Supervisor of Science, Prince George's County Public School Science Office, 9201 East Hampton Drive, Capital Heights, MD 20743; Phone: (301) 808-8251 (Added: 18-Apr-2001 Hits: 557) [Spider search][grade levels: 3-5|6-8|9-12]

 Interactions and Diversity: Earth System Science and Beyond - With demographic trends targeting Hispanics as the fastest-growing and largest minority, it is vital to strengthen efforts to attract them to science-related fields, to help Hispanics reach appropriate representation in the Nation's education base. The Integrated Science Multiuse Laboratory (ISMuL) at the University of Puerto Rico Arecibo Campus, an affiliate of the Puerto Rico Space Grant Consortium, seeks to attract Hispanic students to careers in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (SMET) by strengthening the capabilities of their science and mathematics teachers. Contact: Ibis L. Aponte-Avellanet, Associate Director, Puerto Rico Space Grant Consortium, Director ISMuL PO Box 23334, San Juan, PR 00931-3334; Phone: (787) 765-5170 x. 2117 or 787-764-0000 x. 5807; Fax: (787) 756-7717; Email: ibis@adam.uprr.pr (Added: 6-Feb-2001 Hits: 673) [Spider search][grade levels: post-secondary]

 Learning Technologies Project - The NASA Learning Technologies Project (LTP) uses NASA's inspiring mission, unique facilities, and specialized workforce, along with the best emerging technologies, to promote excellence in America's educational system. LTP funds activities that deliver NASA mission content via the Internet and other technologies to foster reform and restructuring in math, science, computing, engineering, and technical education. Contact: Mark LeÛn, NASA ARC, MS 269-3, Moffett Field, CA 94035; Phone: (650) 604-6498; Email: mleon@mail.arc.nasa.gov (Added: 18-Apr-2001 Hits: 630) [Spider search][grade levels: 3-5|6-8|9-12|K-2]

 Maryland Earth and Space Systems Science Curriculum Project - NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Education Office is collaborating with two Maryland school systems, Anne Arundel County Public Schools and Montgomery County Public Schools, to develop a new high school Earth and Space Systems Science curriculum. This curriculum will address the National Science Education Standards and Maryland's "Core Learning Goals," (http://mdk12.org/mspp/high_school/what_will/science/index.html) which will provide the basis for high school performance tests. The curriculum will use a systems approach and be grounded in current Earth and Space System Science content. Two courses are being developed: 1) a course for students in grades nine or ten (with Algebra 1 as a pre-/co-requisite) and 2) a course for students in grades eleven and twelve (with Algebra 2 as a pre-/co-requisite). The writing team is using information provided by NASA scientists as a basis for the content. The "five E" format, from Constructivist Learning Theory (http://www.exploratorium.edu/IFI/resources/constructivistlearning.html ), is providing the skeleton for the curriculum design. Throughout curriculum development, Goddard's scientists will be consulted by the writing team to ensure that the science is correct and that the latest scientific facts, theories, and processes are incorporated into the curriculum. An advisory board will be identified to review the curriculum writing efforts. Initial implementation of the first level of the course is planned for September, 2000 with revisions to the first course and development of the second level course planned for the 2000/2001 school year. Goddard will provide a Web site for curriculum dissemination so that the curriculum will be made available to other school systems. Contact: John Entwistle, Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 130.3, Building 28, Room N167A, Greenbelt, MD 20771; jentwist@pop100.gsfc.nasa.gov (Added: 18-Apr-2001 Hits: 563) [Spider search][grade levels: 3-5|6-8|9-12|K-2|adult|post-secondary]

 Mathematics of the Dismal Swamp Project - The Mathematics of the Dismal Swamp Project supports a team of professors from Elizabeth City State University to use research on The Great Dismal Swamp Project as a platform for development of a mathematics education course that incorporates a generic wetlands application. The focus of the project is to improve pre-service math education students' understanding of the interdisciplinary nature (includes biology, organisms and aquatic levels; chemistry; geoscience, estuaries and swamp; and mathematics and analysis of the data) associated with Earth system science. Four new modules will be developed, which include an interdisciplinary approach for incorporating Earth system science in the targeted mathematics education course. The project is sponsored by The NASA Earth Science Enterprise (ESE) Education Program, Elizabeth City State University, and the Minority University-SPace Interdisciplinary Network (MUSPIN) Office of Goddard Space Flight Center. Contact: Dr. Linda Bailey Hayden, NASA Network Resources and Training Site, Elizabeth City State University, Box 672 1704 Weeksville Road, Elizabeth City, NC 27909; Phone: (252) 335-3696; Fax: (252) 335-3790; Email: lhayden@umfort.cs.ecsu.edu (Added: 17-Apr-2001 Hits: 546) [Spider search][grade levels: unspecified]

 Mission Possible: Earth System Science, the Curriculum, and You - This three-week interim course is intended to provide pre-service elementary and middle-school teachers with the opportunity to become familiar with the interdisciplinary field of Earth system science. The course will provide participants with hands-on training with NASA curriculum support materials and introduce them to national and local resources, with help from education specialists from the South Dakota Space Grant Consortium and NASA Johnson Space Center. Representatives from EROS Data Center (EDC) will provide educational materials and training on EDC resources. Participants will learn how to use the interactive multimedia technology resource - "The Voyage of the Mimi" - an integrated set of concepts that involve students in math, science, social studies, and language arts related to Earth system science. The opportunity to become proficient in the use of image processing in the classroom will also be provided. Eligible participants are pre-service elementary and middle-school students at Augustana College and other colleges in the South Dakota Space Grant Consortium participating in the interim course concept. The cost of tuition is included in the annual tuition costs for each student - no extra costs are anticipated. Students from other colleges will pay room and board, however room and board is available for up to three visiting students. Contact: Valerie Keeling Olness, Department of Biology, Augustana College, 2001 Summit Avenue, Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57197; Phone: (605) 336-4720; Fax: (605) 336-4492; Email: olness@inst.Augie.edu (Added: 17-Apr-2001 Hits: 551) [Spider search][grade levels: 3-5|6-8]

 NASA Earth Science Education Products Workshops - The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), through funding from NASA’s Earth Science Enterprise, convenes an annual workshop for representatives from NASA Educator Resource Centers (ERCs), Aerospace Education Services Program (AESP), and Teaching from Space (TFS) Program. Participants receive training in new NASA Earth science education products that they can distribute through their ongoing in-service teacher workshops. Participation in the annual workshop is limited to NASA ERC, AESP, and TFS representatives. These representatives then hold teacher workshops in their state, where the products are made available to teachers. Contact IGES for information on NASA educators in your state who are conducting Earth science workshops for K-12 teachers. Contact: Stacey Rudolph, IGES, 2111 Wilson Blvd., Suite 700, Arlington, VA 22201; Phone: (703) 875-8634; Fax: (703) 875-8635; Email:stacey_rudolph@strategies.org (Added: 18-Apr-2001 Hits: 560) [Spider search][grade levels: 3-5|6-8|9-12]

 NASA Native Earth Systems Science Curriculum Project (NESCP) - The All Nations Alliance for Minority Participation (ANAMP) is developing curriculum materials for K-4 education. The Salish Kootenai College and its collaborative partners (the Colville and Nez Perce Tribes) have a unique and innovative plan to develop and field test a set of age-appropriate activities related to fields of Earth system science research and data assessment for the K-4 education community. A "trio" approach to curriculum development will be used that includes two teachers (K-4 and high school) and one elder from each tribe involved (Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, the Colville Tribe, and the Nez Perce Tribe). These trio's will attend two training institutes annually. One institute will focus on Earth system science content areas and will be held at NASA Goddard. The second institute will focus on training in effective teaching practices already developed for Native American students by ANAMP. Each year, a Native American college student in his/her third year in elementary education or math and science secondary education programs will participate in the training institutes. Curriculum and appropriate assessment tools will be developed by the three trio teams of the NASA Native Earth Systems Science Curriculum Project (NESCP). Curriculum that meets assessment and evaluation criteria will be field tested in pilot modules within reservation schools. All curricula will be created in black and white, with standard size duplication in mind. Contact: Dr. Judith Gobert, All Nations Alliance for Minority Participation, Salish Kootenai College, PO Box 117, Pablo, Montana 59864; Phone: (406) 675-4800; Fax: (406) 675-4838 (Added: 18-Apr-2001 Hits: 570) [Spider search][grade levels: 3-5|6-8|9-12|K-2]

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