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Opportunities for Educators: Attend the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting in December 2016
Planning to attend the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting, December 12-16, in San Francisco? The GLOBE Program is providing educators, currently engaged in implementing GLOBE, with the opportunity to submit abstracts and present at the conference during GLOBE focused-sessions. The registration fee will be waived for formal K-12 and informal educators who are accepted.
1) For those using The GLOBE Program in a park, environmental education center, refuge, museum, or other place-based education program:
- Submit your abstract to present in a GLOBE-focused session, Climate Literacy: Bringing Citizen Science to Place-based Climate Change Education,
- Abstracts can be submitted through the link below by 11:59 pm ET on August 3, 2016.
ED009: Climate Literacy: Bringing Citizen Science to Place-Based Climate Change Education: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session13280
2) For those using The GLOBE Program for taking environmental measurements to help students (of any age) understand Earth science concepts:
- Submit your abstract to present in the following session: Demonstrations, Hands-on Activities and Simple Measurements for Education.
ED017: Demonstrations, Hands-on Activities and Simple Measurements for Education: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session12506.html
type: globe-newsNews origin: GLOBE Implementation Office