Session 12 Science, society and schools

Friday, 7 July 2006: 8:30 AM-10:30 AM
Centre Greene Building 1, Auditorium (UCAR Centre Greene Campus)
Host: Seventh International Conference on School and Popular Meteorological and Oceanographic Education
Chair:
Malcolm Walker, Royal Meteorological Society, N/A, Reading

Papers:
8:30 AM
12.1
Weather science short courses for 'talented and gifted' school students in England
Ross Reynolds, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

8:45 AM
12.2
Weather and Climate in European School Curricula
Tomas Halenka, Charles Univ., Prague, Czech Republic; and A. Spekat and J. Wieringa

9:00 AM
12.3
Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellows in NOAA's Office of Education
Beth Jewell, NOAA Office of Education, Washington, DC; and R. Carson

9:15 AM
12.4
Comparing knowledge about greenhouse effect and ozone layer among Norwegian pupils finishing compulsory education in 1989, 1993 and 2005
Pål J. Kirkeby Hansen, Oslo University College, N-0130 Oslo, Norway

Presentation PDF (74.8 kB)

9:30 AM
12.5
Climate education – Empowering today's youth to meet tomorrow's challenges
Camilla Schreiner, University of Oslo, N-0317 Oslo, Norway; and E. K. Henriksen and P. J. K. Hansen

9:45 AM
12.6
Bringing Megacity Environmental Impacts to a Global Community of Learners and Educators on the World Wide Web through Windows to the Universe
Roberta M. Johnson, UCAR, Boulder, Colorado; and S. Q. Foster, J. Bergman, T. Eastburn, L. Gardiner, J. Genyuk, N. Gordon, M. LaGrave, R. Russell, D. Ward, D. Salcedo, J. Weinstein-Lloyd, and B. C. Gonzalez

10:00 AM
12.7
Coffee Break

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