Session 2 K-12 Educational Initiatives

Monday, 10 January 2000: 10:30 AM-12:15 PM
Host: Ninth Symposium on Education
Organizers:
Kathleen A. Murphy, Ladue School District, St. Louis, MO and Jon W. Zeitler, NOAA/NWS, Houston, TX

Papers:
10:30 AM
2.1
Getting Involved in K-12 Outreach: Professional Development Strategies for Research Scientists
Alexandra Weaver, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. M. Buhr and H. Spetzler

10:45 AM
2.2
Water in the Earth System (WES): An Online Distance-Learning Program for Precollege Teacher Enhancement and Leadership Training
Ira W. Geer, AMS, Washington, DC; and D. R. Smith, J. M. Moran, and R. S. Weinbeck

11:00 AM
2.3
Developing Collaborative International Teacher Enhancement Learning Communties
John D. Moore, Burlington County Institute of Technology, AMS/AERA, Medford, NJ; and K. Orr and R. P. Wanton

11:15 AM
2.4
Informal science education supporting weather broadcasters on-air with TRMM "Mini-Education Supplements"
J. Marshall Shepherd, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and C. Howell, W. Sisler, A. Nelson, S. Graham, D. Christopher, and L. Bridgett

11:30 AM
2.5
Education Through Weather Day-Camps
Dorri A. Breher, Weather Research Center/The Weather Museum, Houston, TX; and J. F. Hasling

11:45 AM
2.6
Lessons learned in the SCIAD program
Jeffrey E. Passner, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico

12:00 PM
2.6a
Lunch Break

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