Education and Outreach Opportunities

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Education and Outreach Opportunities
Roberta Johnson, Susan Foster, and Lisa
Gardiner Education and Outreach Office
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OVERVIEW

• UCARs strategic and programmatic approach to
  education and outreach
• Our key focus areas
• Opportunities for partnership with TIMES

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Informal Education Events, Clubs Museums Zoos Aqu
aria Websites Parks
Education through Research
Formal Education Home schooling K-12 College and
Universities Graduate Post-doc Prof. Training
Diversity
Technology- Facilitated Learning
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Improving Diversity
SOARS A learning community and mentoring program
to bring ethnically diverse students into careers
in the atmospheric and related sciences
9 yrs, 90 protégés 29 MS, 10 PhD candidates 1
PhD, 17 in SE workforce
Funding Agencies - NSF, DOE, NOAA, NASA, NCAR,
UCAR Received 2001 Presidential Mentoring Award
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Building Upon UCAR/NCAR/UOP EO Programs

• Formal Education
• K-12 Students
• Mesa Lab Tours and Classroom Programs
• K-12 Teachers
• Professional Development Workshops
• Curriculum Development/Evaluation
• Distance Learning
• GLOBE
• Undergraduate
• SOARS
• Unidata
• COMET
• Undergraduate Leadership Workshop
• Internships
• Graduate/Postgraduate Study
• ASP, VSP, Graduate Fellowships, COMET, SOARS,
  Early Career Faculty Forum
• Digital Libraries
• DLESE, NSDL

• Informal Science Education
• Events
• Super Science Saturday, Public Lectures,
  Conferences
• Tours
• Customized Visits, Guided and Self-guided (Audio
  Tour)
• Exhibits
• Mesa Lab Lobby, and potentially off-site
• Web-Based Resources
• Windows to the Universe
• Web Weather for Kids
• NCAR EO web site
• Divisional EO web sites
• Roberts Forum
• Skymath, LEARN

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Aligning with K-12 Science Content Standards
Unifying concepts and processes - Systems, order,
organization, evidence, models, explanations,
change, constancy, measurement, equilibrium, form
and function (MODELING, SPATIAL/TEMPORAL SCALES
OF CHANGE) Inquiry Designing, doing, and
understanding the process of science (TELL OUR
STORIES) Physical science - Properties and
changes of properties in matter, motions and
forces, transfer of energy (WAVES, CONVECTION,
VORTICITY, FLUID DYNMAMICS OF ATMOSPHERE) Earth
and space science Origin, evolution, and
structure of the Earth system and the universe,
energy in the Earth system, Earth in the solar
system, geochemical cycles (ATMOSPHERIC
STRUCTURE, WEATHER, CLIMATE, GLOBAL CHANGE)
Science and technology - Abilities of
technological design, and understanding about
science and technology (GROUND, AIRBORNE AND
SATELLITE-BASED OBSERVATION FACILITIES FIELD
CAMPAIGNS) Science in personal and social
perspectives - Personal and community health
natural hazards, risks and benefits and science
and technology in society SOCIETAL IMPACTS,
SCIENTISTS AS CAREER ROLE MODELS, TOOLS FOR
INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY DECISION MAKING) History
and nature of science - science as a human
endeavor, nature of scientific knowledge, and
historical perspectives (AGAIN STORIES!)
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K-12 Teacher Professional Development

• Climate and Global Change for Geoscience
  Educators Science content, activities, field
  work, standards, technology, and training support
• Modeling in the Geoscience Workshop Funded by
  NASA through ESMF - Focus on the use of models in
  geoscience education (e.g. STELLA, ArcView)
• GLOBE Creating the next generation of
  environmental leaders and scientists by teaching
  children in 107 countries how to take
  environmental measurements, report them via the
  Internet, and address challenging environmental
  problems

2002-04, 450 applicants, 99 teachers trained

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Exhibits Program

• Guided by an NCAR Scientific Advisory Committee
• Climate Discovery Exhibit nearing completion
• First floor Weather Gallery upgrade planned in
  2006-2008
• Increasingly utilizing video media, interactives,
  and games
• Growing opportunities to collaborate with other
  museums and science centers and broadcasters
• CURRENT RESEARCH

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Teachers Guide to ML Exhibits
Extending ML visit experience using existing and
new web-based activities
Current funding from NCAR Strategic Initiative,
NASA EPOs, and Friends of UCAR
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Web-Based Outreach and Distance Learning

• Supporting formal and informal education for
  students, teachers, and science professionals
• Content derived from on-going curriculum
  development and training efforts
• Often integrated into professional development
  programs

Comet training modules, focused on professional
training for meteorologists
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978,684 sessions in May 2005 (249K Spanish)
865K unique ips 11.2M page views 33.5M hits
11 pgs/session
25 of Spanish language comes from US web
domains, with the rest from other countries.
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ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE, DYNAMICS, and CHEMISTRY
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The Suns Structure, Dynamics, Sun-Earth
Connections
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ENERGY and WAVES
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Current/Recent Collaborations with NCAR/UOP PIs

• ACD
• Web site content development associated with
  SNOE, NASA EPO, 15K/yr, 3 yrs, Science PI - Dan
  Marsh
• Teacher/student involvement in use of
  instrumentation in the classroom, NSF
  Biocomplexity, 48K over 3 yrs, Science PI Dave
  Carlson
• HAO
• Resource development supporting scientist
  outreach, NASA EPO, 15K/yr, 3 yrs, Science PI -
  Gang Lu
• Teacher in Residence Program to develop classroom
  resources, NASA EPO, 15K/yr, 3 yrs, Science PI -
  Art Richmond
• 4 Web site content development collaborations
  leveraging Windows to the Universe (NSF and NASA
  ranging from 25K/yr to 70K/yr each)
• SCD
• Earth System Modeling Framework Professional
  Development Workshops for Educators, 453K over 3
  yrs, NCAR Lead Collaborator Cecelia DeLuca
• ESIG
• Climate Discovery Center (part of
  Human-Environment Learning Project), NCAR PI Bob
  Harriss
• TIMES
• Biocomplexity content/activities development on
  Windows to the Universe, 50K/yr SOARS
  cosponsorship 20K/yr Science PI Beth Holland
• ISSE
• Little Ice Age curriculum development, 15K/yr,
  Science PI Caspar Ammann/Linda Mearns
• UOP
• Cataloging of Web-based resources into DLESE, UOP
  PI Mary Marlino
• Education contact/program database for NSDL, UOP
  PI Dave Fulker
• GLOBE-EO K-12 Professional Development for
  Educators, UOP PI Craig Blurton

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EO CONTACTS
Susan Foster, EO Deputy Director, susanf_at_ucar.edu
Roberta Johnson, EO Director, rmjohnsn_at_ucar.edu
Sandra Henderson, GLOBE Chief Educator,
sandrah_at_ucar.edu
Rajul Pandya, SOARS Director, pandya_at_ucar.edu
Also, in UOP COMET, Unidata, DLESE, NSDL, GLOBE