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Want to know more about global climate change?
What: Global Climate Change Institute for Teachers: Elementary and Middle level
Where: Western Oregon University, Monmouth, OR
When:
Elementary: Wed and Thurs Aug 26, 27
Middle (6-8): Thurs and Fri Aug 27,28
Time: 8:30-4 pm each day
Cost: FREE! Includes snacks and lunch. Your only cost is if you want one graduate credit ($50) or if you choose to stay overnight (limited housing in WOU dorms available with advance notice).
What to expect:
-Gain an understanding of what global climate change is and how it will impact the Pacific Northwest
-Explore ways your school and students can initiate changes to reduce your school’s carbon footprint.
-Learn how Global Climate change curriculum connects with national and Oregon’s new state science standards
-Participate in lessons and hands-on activities suitable for use in elementary or middle level classrooms
-Receive copies of the lessons
-Examine children’s books that can be integrated with the global climate change curriculum
Limit: 32 K-5 elementary and 24 middle school teachers
For more information contact: Dr. William Schoenfeld or Dr. Adele Schepige at gccift@wou.edu
Funded by NASA through a grant to Earth & Space Research (www.esr.org ). Additional support from WOU and the NASA/Oregon Space Grant Consortium.
The Space Place, NASA’s award-winning Web site for kids, presents the Space Place cartoon kids hosting their own talk show “live” from the Space Place Clubhouse. Their guests are NASA scientists and engineers. The goal of “Space Place Live!” is to introduce kids to the human, down-to-Earth side of real scientists and engineers working in the space program. Each guest is presented as a passionate and accomplished role model for every child interested in science or engineering.
In the latest episode, the kids interview a cartoon version of the GOES satellite Deputy Project Manager, Andre Dress. Andre works at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. He talked with Kate and Kyo about preparing the new GOES-O weather satellite and the team for the most exciting day of the mission, the launch!
To watch the latest episode and past episodes that have been archived, visit http://spaceplace.nasa.gov
As a writer for the NASA Web site’s students’ and educators’ pages, Heather Smith has written quite a few stories about students and teachers flying experiments on NASA’s reduced-gravity aircraft. Now she’s getting a chance to fly with a team and experience microgravity herself.
From June 3-9, 2009, Heather will be at NASA’s Johnson Space Center and Ellington Field in Houston with a student microgravity team from the University of Colorado at Boulder. After a few days of training, they’ll take part in a flight that includes 30 parabolic maneuvers — basically an up-and-down roller coaster pattern. As the plane climbs, they will feel the pull of about twice the gravity of Earth. The plane will then “nose over” the top of the parabola and descend toward Earth in a free fall. For about 18 to 25 seconds, they’ll feel what it’s like to float in space.
Students and teachers can follow along during Heather’s adventure by reading her Free Falling blog on the NASA blogs page. Regular updates and photos will be posted during the experience.
For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/going-weightless.html
