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GLOBE Webinar: Meaningful Teacher-Scientist Partnerships: How to Make It Work
Date/time: 15 January 2013 2100 UTC (4pm EST)
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So, you're thinking about working with a K-12 school teacher...K-12 schools are very different from the university and research world, and working with a teacher or visiting a classroom can be very intimidating. Join this webinar to learn how the GLOBE program can help you to build meaningful teacher-scientist partnerships. Lindsay Knippenberg, a classroom teacher who has built successful partnerships with scientists and her students, will give you ideas for planning classroom visits, collaborating while in the field, and building a lasting, two-way partnership between the teacher and scientist. For more information on the GLOBE International Science Network (GISN), please go to: http://www.globe.gov/web/globe-international-scientist-network/overview
Speaker: LIndsay Knippenberg
Lindsay Knippenberg has been teaching Environmental Science for the past ten years in both urban and rural schools and is currently teaching at Mooresville High School in Mooresville, North Carolina. In her classroom, Lindsay challenges her students to think like scientists and be collectors and users of scientific data. Through her partnerships with several scientists she has been able to bring current science and data into the classroom to make learning more meaningful to her students. Some of those partnerships include working alongside a team of researchers studying microorganisms living deep within a glacier in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antractica through PolarTREC and being part of a team of fisheries biologists studying pollack in the Bering Sea through the NOAA Teacher at Sea program. For the past two years Lindsay has been a Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow at the NOAA Office of Education in Washington, DC. Lindsay used her fellowship to help link teachers to scientists and provide teachers with the resources to bring current science into their classrooms to inspire students across the nation to become our future scientists.
If you have questions, contact Dr. Sarah Tessendorf of the GLOBE Science and Education Team.
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