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I'm leaving this week feeling inspired, energized, and motivated to take on the upcoming school year. Some of my favorite things from this week are the contacts made, getting ideas on strategies for my class, and finding out about resources that are available to me. My goal is to use more PBL throughout the school year.
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The GLOBE Institute has provided me with important, practical tools. I plan to make them available to my students so they can probe our local environment. It also has provided me with a wealth of ideas for project expansion.
I will actively be expanding my professional network to include local scientists in order to correlate our data to theirs. Learning through actual research, along with collaborating with local scientists will enable my students to truly appreciate how human activity does affects our climate.
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The week at L2R has been a wonderful experience to collaborate with educators all across the US. My biggest take aways from L2R include:
a better understanding of the importance of a network of educators
feeling more confident bringing Globe into the classroom
feeling more confident utilizing collaboration technology with my students
recharging for the upcoming school year
utilizing 21st century learning skills and project-based lessons
feeling like I belong to an educational program that really matters
Thank you everyone for a wonderful ...
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I'll be heading out from Boulder on Friday with so many more tools in my teaching toolbox!
-- Myriad resources for teaching my students about weather, climate, and how to help them clearly understand the difference.
-- So many insights into the climate change debate and how best to approach this often volatile subject in a way that focuses on data for science literacy, not emotion and misinformation.
-- A GLOBE recharge ! It's been a number of years since my last GLOBE training and this opportunity to revisit the phenology and atmosphere protocols - and know that the ...
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I was excited to attend the Learning to research Summer Institute to enhance some inquiry methods related to climate change. But when we started the program it overwhelmed me. Each day was a bundle of enormous information. I had a new perspective of climate now. I have clear guidelines to develop a project to better assist my students. Exposure to new dimensions of technology made be a little bit more confident to participate actively in GLOBE activities through out the year and after.
I got to know lot of people across the nation and received bulk of information on ...
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Invitation from L2R landed as a boon to me. After I received my training for GLOBE in 2006, I had not been consistent to participate in GLOBE activities. Climate research project will be the passport for me and my students to get connected with real people who think and act like scientists. The word climate may be familiar to students but the facts associated with it will open the gates to explore and experiment. I am excited to know what this project is in store for me and my students. I am very enthusiastic to learn new ways to research and transfer the knowledge ...
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This has been one of the most enriching and educationally productive weeks I have had the opportunity to experience in a quite a long time. To the institute staff, if you didn't hear it from me before, please know that I sincerely appreciate all you have coordinated and put together for us this week. Putting together a meaningful experience for a diverse group of educators is a large task and you did it exceptionally well and always with patience and a smile. Every single session you planned had many new ideas, contacts, links, information, etc. that I was directed ...
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This has been a great week of learning new things and meeting new people. I hope that my students benefit from this training as much as I have. I cannot wait to get started on our atmosphere and hydrology testing. I think it will be a valuable experience for the students to communicate with other students across the continent who are doing similar work. As we do our atm and water testing, we will be sharing data and stories with--
1. a school in Houston, a city similar to ours, with environmental issues similar to ours
2. a school in Montana, much ...
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I am looking forward to the GLOBE workshop in Boulder, CO. I know I will meet scads of fantastic and energetic teachers brimming with great ideas, which I never tire of. Im looking forward to learning about some new protocols and collaborating with others to design projects. I want to learn more about the protocols and learn to use the new website. I also hope to see the Rocky Mountains!
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There are several things I am taking from the Learning to Research conference. The main thing is the number of contacts with people who are committed to the GLOBE program and understand the value it represents to educators. I got to know the teachers from the schools whose data my students used in their surface temperature campaign last year. This is my first experience with so many people who are doing many different things that benefit students and who feel as strongly as I do. I came with the expectation of acquiring the skills to design a study of aerosols and ozone in Huntington, ...
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L2R Expectations 2012
From learning to research is indeed a transformational way to look at teaching and learning from both student and teacher perspectives. Throughout the past academic school year I participated in many professional developments, content specific and non-content specific. Just about 100% of the time the facilitator reads off some statistical data augmenting a point about learning methodologies or pedagogies that sometimes captured my attention. I feel more often than not, that I am only a learner in this situation, ...
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My expectations for the Learning to Research project and the summer institute is to gain knowledge on incorporating Climate Change into a Math Curriculum. Climate Change is a very in depth topic and working in the Globe program previously aligned the topics with the science strands only. We are encouraged to cross-curriculum and it would be great to see how the subject can be incorporated into other areas besides science. It especially helps when we work with other teachers to team teach.
In addition to cross-curriculum, I expect to gain knowledge on how ...
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My Hopes for the From Learning to Research Project and Summer Institute Opportunity
Like any other teacher, my most altruistic goal is to participate in a professional development activity that will motivate, educate, and stimulate me into developing a learning activity that will encourage my students to become productive, lifelong learners. I am blessed to teach on a campus rich in nature, only 2miles from Merchant’s Millpond State Park and 20 miles from the Great Dismal Swamp. With ...
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This initial blog starts out as a "what I did on my Summer vacation" exercise and ends with what I expect to get out of the on-going GLOBE project.
This institute fits in to my on-going overall annual professional goal: learn something new in Science. A specific goal for this year is to acquire training in order to participate in real time scientific investigations. An added benefit will be to share data with other schools both within my own school system and globally.
I am also looking to gain the confidence and acquire strategies needed to engage my students in authentic Earth ...
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TEACHERS
I have been a GLOBE teacher since 1999. In the first few years, my school was very active in atmosphere testing as well as hydrology. However, we lost our atmosphere station in Hurricane Katrina, and from that year until this past school year, I did not teach Environmental Science. I returned to teaching Env.Sci. this past school year, and renewed my interest in the GLOBE program. I took a couple of refresher workshops on atmosphere testing and hydrology during the past few months and am ready to get to work!!!
I signed up for the L2R program and summer ...
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In one week I will be boarding an airplane on my way to Boulder for the ITEST/GLOBE training program. I am so excited! The schedule promises a plethora of experiences designed to increase my knowledge of climatology, project development skills, research methods, technology exposure, and best practices in all of these areas. I'm looking forward to learning so many new things to help my students learn more. I feel very fortunate to be included in this endeavor, and my school and students will reap many rewards from my work at ITEST/GLOBE.
One of the biggest ...
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In one week I will be settling in at the University of Colorado campus in Boulder. News stories and headlines in recent days have been rife with images of the current wildfires so honestly my thoughts about participating in the L2R event have largely centered on the impact of the fires on the Colorado citizens who are coping with this enormous crisis. My prayers go out to them as they work to contain the destruction.
What I would like to get from the conference has several facets. First, I fully believe that as a teacher it is an important exercise to continue to be a student, so ...
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The Learning to Research project and summer institute will allow me to make some great contacts for my own professional development and for my students. This will enhance both of our learning experiences about many topics besides climate change. One never knows where meeting such like minded and outstanding teachers will lead.
This project will increase my knowledge about climate change to better educate my students and indirectly the surrounding community.
Lastly, I want to learn as much about the types of technology that can be used in the ...
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This is my first blog ever, not just my first blog for L2R. I must confess that I feel like my students must when asked to do something publicly that they are not quite sure they have mastered. It's not an altogether comfortable feeling, really--a little "first day of a new school" plus "what if I fall flat on my face?" In any case, one of my biggest goals for this project is to immerse myself in new-to-me skills so that I can bring them to my classroom. If I don't try things out myself, I am much less likely to ask my students to do it.
I am really quite excited about L2R. My ...
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What do I want to get out of the “From Learning to Research project and the summer Institute”?
First I would like to gain more knowledge about tree phenology and apply it to our research on Alaska Climate using bud moisture content of Alaska paper birch buds to predict when bud burst would occur.Then provide an opportunity for my students to present their findings at the 2013 GLOBE conference.
Second, to increase my technology skill level so that I can enhance the student learning experience by allowing the students to use more tools to assist them on their research projects. ...
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