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Publication Announcement: Recasting Content in a New Light
I am excited to announce the publication of a resource for informal educators, science teachers, and curriculum developers. Recasting Content in a New Light: A Guide for Adapting Formal Education Materials for Informal Settings is a guide co-authored by Kristen Bergsman of Laughing Crow Curriculum for NASA's Space Telescope Science Institute and Pacific Science Center. The guide is a useful resource for anyone who wants to translate curriculum materials originally developed for classroom environments for use in out-of-school time settings.The 29-page guide includes information on out-of-school-time settings, information on how to adapt materials to meet the needs of the out-of-school-time environment, tips on adapting curricular materials without reinventing the wheel, and a useful curriculum adaptation template.To download a PDF of this guide, visit NASA's Science Mission Directorate website here.
Engage: The Science Speaker Series
This from Pacific Science Center and the UW...... Graduate students in the sciences at the UW get a lot of cutting edge training but rarely in the ways of explaining their research to non-specialists. Engage: The Science Speaker Series is a pilot program where PhD students build their skills of communicating with the public about their work. This year, we showcase the research of mostly Astronomy PhD students; next year we will plan a seminar whose sole purpose is to make an engaging science talk the entire family would understand and appreciate.This is brought to you by the UW Graduate and Professional Student Senate and the Forum on Science, Ethics, and Policy. Admission is free. Venue: Physics and Astronomy Auditorium, Room 118, UW Campus. Public talks are every other Wednesday. Doors open at 6:45pm, talk will be about 30 minutes with lots of timefor questions. For more Information, click here. Next up: Feb 10 Weeds are More than Plants out of Place: Mechanisms of Plant Invasion Feb 24 Galaxies in a Different Light: Astronomy in X-rays, Optical, IR, and Radio March 10 Big Bang to an Immigrant Sun: The Birth and Life of Spiral Galaxies And there's more. Check out their website. From: PSC/UW
Student Opportunity to Shadow Organ Transplant Staff
Donate Life Today, in partnership with Swedish Medical Center, Virginia Mason Medical Center, and Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center have an opportunity for high school students to job shadow organ transplant staff at these medical centers in Seattle and Spokane. What an amazing opportunity to open a student's eyes to this medical specialty. For more information, please contact Molly Schoeb via email or phone 425-201-6617. More info here.
Brower Youth Awards
The Brower Youth Awards recognize people ages 13 to 22 living in North America who have shown outstanding leadership on a project or campaign with positive environmental and social impact. "Outstanding leadership" means that you played a major leadership role in creating, organizing and implementing your project or campaign. We are looking for the person with the vision, motivation, and leadership skills that made the project or campaign work. We gauge impact by how your efforts benefited the environment and community in terms of measurable results (e.g. acres of wildlife habitat protected or restored, number of people engaged in social issues because of the project, numbers of children no longer exposed to toxins, etc.), as well as movement-building and raising awareness. Click here for more information. From: Earth Island Institute
Island Fauna of Vieques
      Vieques is a small island, 7 miles off the shore of Puerto Rico. The island straddles the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean and is known for its picture-perfect white sand beaches. About two-thirds of the island was once appropriated by the U.S. military to build a base, train soldiers, and practice dropping bombs. Now, the military has vacated the island and the base has been transformed into a national wildlife refuge that is mostly inaccessible to people. The entire island is home to a variety of wildlife, including sea creatures that inhabit the nearby coral reefs, birds that call from the coconut palms, herds of wild horses that wander the island freely, a bizillion ants and termites, and a variety of lizards, iguanas, and bearded dragons. The photos in order are: - Ants sipping water from our breakfast table.
- Treasures collected from a beach in the wildlife refuge: corals, shells, sea fans, and sponges.
- Small lizard scaling beach rocks.
- Bearded dragon in the tree by our guest house's pool.
- Iguana munching on tree leaves.
- A herd of wild horses alongside the road.
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