2009 ESIP Teacher Workshop
Facilitating Earth Science data in G6-12 Education

UCSB Bren School of Environmental Science & Management

         
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--- Agenda for the ESIP summer conference teacher track ---

 Wednesday July 8th

9:00– 11:45: ESIP Plenary (UCSB Bren Colloquium Room)
9:00 Opening Welcome, James Frew, UCSB and ESIP Federation President
9:15 Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information
10:15 Break (Bren Courtyard)
10:45 Jeff Dozier, Professor, UCSB and Chief Scientist, WATERS Project Office
11:45– Lunch

1:00 - Welcome, Teacher Workshop Overview & Introductions
Margaret Mooney, ESIP Education Chair

1:30 - Climate Literacy Essential Principles
Tamara Ledley, Climate Literacy Network/TERC
2:00 - Activities to incorporate NOAA Weather & Climate Data into the Classroom
LuAnn Dahlman, NOAA Climate Program Office
3:00 - Break
3:30 - Ocean Temperature, Salinity and Density
Gregg Foti, NASA PO. DAAC
Annette Decharon, Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence
4:30 - Seaicebox:  Exploring Sea Ice in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions
Annette Schloss, UNH
5:30 - Conference Reception and poster session

Thursday July 9th

9:00 to 10:00 - Two concurrent sessions in adjacent computer labs
Satellite Observations in Science Education

Tommy Jasmin, CIMSS/SSEC, UW-Madison
Using the 2008 TerraViva! SEDAC Viewer in the Classroom
Robert R. Downs, CIESIN, Columbia University
10:00 - Break
10:30 - - Two concurrent sessions
KML and Google Earth
Raj Singh, Open Geospatial Consortium
Sampling the Sea
Bruce Caron and Constance Penley
11:30 - Two concurrent sessions
World Ocean Atlas (WOA) Data Viewer
Martin Landsfeld (NASA DIAL ACCESS Project) and Bruce Caron
Earth Exploration Toolbook
Tamara Ledley, TERC
12:30 - Lunch
2:00 - Two concurrent sessions
Climate Change Activities that clarify the 2007 IPCC Report
Margaret Mooney, CIMSS/SSEC, UW-Madison
NWS Education Products and Services for Teachers, Students and the Public
Ron Gird, NWS
3:00 to 3:30 Break - Reconvene as one group after break
3:30 - Overview & Recap of ESIP Educational Resources
Brian Rogan, ESIP Research and Outreach Coordinator
4:00 to 5:30 - Shar-a-thon, evaluations, wrap-up
5:30 Adjourn

         
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