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Announcement: Global Health Curriculum Project!
Laughing Crow Curriculum's owner, Kristen Bergsman, is excited to announce the company's involvement in the Washington Global Health Alliance Ambassadors (WGHAA) Program. The company has been contracted by the WGHAA Program as the curriculum design consultant to develop an 11th grade global health curriculum. The curriculum will be interdisciplinary, providing resources for social studies, science, and math teachers. During a three-year pilot program, the curriculum will be developed and piloted in four Washington State high schools, with later dissemination to schools around the state, and beyond.This education and outreach program is part of the amazing Washington Global Health Alliance, a network of the region's most influential global health organizations, including: Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Fred Hutch, Institute for Systems Biology, UW Dept of Global Health, WSU School for Global Animal Health, Infectious Disease Research Institute, PATH, Seattle Children's Research Institute. The program is generously funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.Read more about the Washington Global Health Alliance Ambassadors Program here. Read more about the Washington Global Health Alliance here.
Bones, Bird, Beach
    Death and decay at Long Beach, WA
Free Talk by Sandra Steingraber (March 31)
Three Bets on our Economy, our Ecology, and the Future of Public Health: A vision of the future from a biologist, cancer survivor, and mother Dr. Sandra Steingraber. 4pm Tuesday, March 31st University of Washington Physics/Astronomy Auditorium A118. Free and open to the Public.
Ecologist, author, and cancer survivor, Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. is an expert on the environmental links to cancer and reproductive health. She received her doctorate in biology from the University of Michigan and master's degree in English from Illinois State University. Steingraber's highly acclaimed book, Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment presents cancer as a human rights issue. She is recognized for her ability to serve as a two-way translator between scientists and activists, and recipient of awards for "excellence in medical communication," "inspiring and poetic use of science to elucidate causes of cancer," and the Rachel Carson Leadership Award. Steingraber is currently a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Ithaca College. Dr. Steingraber's visit is partially sponsored by Greenlaw. More info here.
Project BudBurst Citizen Science
PROJECT BUDBURST (K-12)Project BudBurst is a national field campaign for citizen scientists designed to engage the public in the collection of important climate change data based on the timing of leafing and flowering of trees and flowers. Participants take careful observations of the phenological events and their observations are reported to the national Project BudBurst database.The project provides teaching materials and classroom activities designed for each grade level to effectively implement Project BudBurst in the K-12 classroom setting. For more information, see http://www.budburst.org. From: WA NASA Space Grant Newsletter
World TB Day Event--March 24th
Washington State experienced record high cases of tuberculosis (TB) in 2008. This year alone, over 9 million citizens of our planet will contract this bacterial infection simply by breathing. Teachers, teens and community members are invited to come to Seattle Town Hall on March 24th, from 6-8 PM to learn alongside global TB leaders about the factors in this global challenge! Range of topics that night will include:*Mutli-Druge Resistant TB: The Coming Epidemic? *TB: Yesterday , Today & Tomorrow *TB Under Wraps: The Challenges of TB Control *Surviving TB: Stories From the Front Line *Seattle Solutions to a Global Challenge.The theme to this year's World TB Day event is "In the fight against tuberculosis, the hero could be you" - we hope to see many in attendance. Please visit SBRI's website to learn more about this free and interesting event. From: SBRI
EstuaryLive interactive online field trip
EstuaryLive! Explore our nation's estuariesFriday, May 1st & May 15th, 2009On May 1st, join naturalists from around the country and explore one of our nation's most precious resources--estuaries, where rivers meet the sea. EstuaryLive is an annual, free, live, interactive, field trip through our nation's estuaries. What makes EstuaryLive interactive? Participants have an opportunity to submit questions, comments and responses directly to field trip leaders during the broadcast. Many of these questions are answered live during the broadcast. This year's program will feature six 30-minute segments broadcasting LIVE from three of NOAA's National Estuarine Research Reserves (NERR): Hudson River NERR in New York, South Slough NERR in Oregon, and Padilla Bay NERR in Washington. We will include a discussion of the impacts of global climate change on our coastal ecosystems.
For more information & other educational materials, click here.Register for the broadcast at this website.From: EstuaryLive
Environmental Justice Workshop (Free!)
Region 10 EPA will once again conduct the one-day version of the Fundamentals of Environmental Justice workshop in downtown Seattle, WA. Workshops are scheduled March through July, 2009. There is no cost for this workshop. See workshop description and spring schedule below. For the first time, we are offering the "Day-2", more advanced version of the workshop as well. Registration for the "Day-2" version requires prior participation in the one-day Fundamentals of EJ workshop. Who can attend? We welcome representatives from communities, government agencies, NGO's, Tribes, businesses and universities. Seating is limited so early registration is encouraged. How to Register? Interested parties can send an e-mail to register. Please allow up to one week for a confirmation. Questions? Call Running-Grass, EJ Program Manager at 206/553-2899. About the Fundamentals of Environmental Justice Workshop The Fundamentals of Environmental Justice is a highly interactive, thought provoking and "learner centered" workshop experience. Based on principles of community education, this workshop is the 1-day "compressed" version of the full 3 day workshop. "Day-2" builds on the experiences and information presented in the first day. The workshop is useful for all experience levels and positions and draws upon the knowledge and experiences of participants for local examples of Environmental Justice issues and collaborative problem-solving approaches to their resolution. Spring 2009 Schedule March 12 (Advanced) March 19 (Fundamentals)... April 2 (Fundamentals)... April 9 (Advanced) April 30 (Advanced) May 7 (Fundamentals) May 14 (Advanced) May 21 (Fundamentals)... May 28 (Advanced).From: EPA Region 10
Inquiry Science Workshop in Port Townsend
Approaches to Inquiry: Shifting Classrooms Toward Inquiry Learning
Port Townsend Marine Science Center
Dates: August 17 to 22, 2009
For Teachers, grades 5 to 10
Scientific Inquiry lies at the heart of science literacy. This 4 day teacher training, held at the Fort Worden Conference Center on the Olympic Peninsula explores the nature of inquiry using methods and materials developed at the Exploratorium's Institute for Inquiry, combined with activities developed at the Port Townsend Marine Science Center utilizing the park's marine and aquatic environments.
Workshop sessions include:
An exploration of 3 different approaches to hands-on science from a learners perspective, followed by a discussion of ways each approach affects the learner and the learning process. A focus on specific scientific process skills used by both scientists and students, introducing a diagnostic to assess student proficieny in those skills along with tools for improving student proficiency. Strategies that encourage students to raise their own science-related questions, along with ways to help students turn them so that the questions can lead to investigations. A full inquiry investigation carried out in a natural area on site at Fort Worden State Park. Ideas for shifting lessons teachers currently teach, including kit-based activities, in order to raise the level of science process skills and inquiry learning taking place. Field and laboratory experiences at the Port Townsend Marine Science Center will be integrated into the training, providing application of training topics to the natural environment.
$200 tuition covers instruction, instructional materials, and room & board at Fort Worden Conference Center. Credit and clock hours are available at additional cost.
Enrollment is limited to 24 participants. Apply now! Click here to download an application form, a flyer, and a course syllabus. Or contact the Port Townsend Marine Science Center directly at 800-566-3932, 360-385-5582 or here.
Fun at St. Edwards State Park--Free!
 The Saint Edward Environmental Learning Center in Kenmore is hosting FREE workshops this spring and summer. The spring flyer is now available. Keep your eyes peeled for the summer flyer....I'll be hosting a free workshop for families in late-August on nature journaling.More information can be found here.
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