SATELLITES (Students And Teachers Exploring Local Landscapes to Investigate The Earth from Space)
July 11-15, 8:30am-4:30pm
University of Toledo, Snyder Hall
“We work with all three geospatial technologies, GPS, GIS, and remote sensing. Participants will be introduced to the science behind each of the technologies, receive lesson plans and class activities that are standards based. They will spend the day from 8:30 to 4:30 each day mirroring the activities that they will be introducing to their students. An inquiry based science project will be done during the workshop using at least one of the technologies. Participants will become GLOBE certified in surface temperature and atmospheric protocols. They will receive a free GPS, GIS software and many classroom resources. In return we ask that participants have their students participate in the classroom pre and post testing (approximately 30 mins. of class time for testing). All testing materials are supplied to them. Their students are able to become a part of the field data collection campaign on surface temperature and the urban heat island effect. This data is sent to a center where the data is available to scientists and students around the world. The field data is collected at their school during 10 school days between Thanksgiving and the Christmas break. They choose the 10 consecutive school days. In addition we ask them to submit at least one student inquiry based research project using one of the geospatial technologies to our annual SATELLITES conference. We have both a face to face conference and a video conference for those unable to attend the face to face conference.”
“Although our grant is unable to pay for their housing for the week, we do provide lunch and snacks each day and I can arrange housing for participants in an air conditioned dorm room for approximately $125 for Sunday through Thursday night.”
To register, send the information below to Mikell Hedley <mikell.hedley@utoledo.edu>:
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