Session: Teacher training (Seventh International Conference on School and Popular Meteorological and Oceanographic Education)

Wednesday, 5 July 2006: 10:30 AM-3:00 PM

Centre Greene Building 1, Auditorium (UCAR Centre Greene Campus)

Host: Seventh International Conference on School and Popular Meteorological and Oceanographic Education

Cochairs:

John T. Snow, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK and Agueda Benito-Capa, Universidad Europea/CEES, Physics Department, Madrid

Papers:

10:30 AM

8A.1

AMS education program - a collegial success story

I. W. Geer, American Meteorological Society, Washington, DC; and J. M. Moran, R. S. Weinbeck, D. R. Smith, E. J. Hopkins, E. W. Mills, and B. A. Blair

11:00 AM

8A.2

AMS programs to enhance education in the ocean sciences: The Maury Project and DataStreme Ocean

David R. Smith, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and I. W. Geer, J. M. Moran, R. S. Weinbeck, and E. W. Mills

Presentation PDF (75.8 kB)

11:15 AM

8A.3

Using oceanography examples to teach chemical principles

Bruce G. Smith, Appleton North High School, Appleton, Wisconsin, Appleton, WI

11:30 AM

8A.4

NOAA Teacher-at-Sea Program; how experiencing real research makes teaching and student learning fun.

Brian D. Emond, University of Massachusetts (NOAA Teacher-at-Sea Program), Amherst, MA

11:45 AM

8A.5

An application of beach measurement techniques from Project Maury to the evolution of a meso-tidal system at Sandy Hook, New Jersey

William Blanchard, AMS/Maury, Neptune, NJ

12:00 PM

8A.6

Earth2Class: Connecting Teachers and Researchers

Michael J. Passow, Lamont-Doherty and Teachers College, Columbia Univ., New York, NY and White Plains Middle School, White Plains, NY; and G. J. Iturrino, C. M. Assumpcao, and F. D. Baggio

Presentation PDF (194.1 kB)

12:15 PM

8A.7

The Weather Outside our Window: Teacher Education Through Inquiry-Based Case Studies on Rocky Mountain Front Range Weather

Linnea M. Avallone, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. Laursen, J. Hacker, W. Abshire, and B. Hendrickson

12:30 PM

8A.8

Professional Development for Middle School and High School Educators on Climate and Global Change and Modeling in the Geosciences at NCAR

Roberta M. Johnson, UCAR, Boulder, Colorado; and S. Henderson, D. L. Ward, S. Q. Foster, L. Gardiner, R. Russell, S. Gallagher, and K. Meymaris

12:45 PM

8A.9

Building bridges between researchers and educators at CIRES