Research and Educational Institutional Partners:
Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
Sea Education Association (SEA)
Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC)
Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (WBNERR)
National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS)
WGBH Teachers Domain
November Learning

Volunteer Consortia:
WHSTEP – Woods Hole Science and Technology Education Partnership
Falmouth Public Schools Volunteers in Public Schools (VIPS)
UMASS Dartmouth

THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING OUR JULY 14TH PRE-C0NFERENCE,

WELCOME TO FALMOUTH KIDS GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE INITIATIVE NING.

If you were not able to attend the pre-conference, click here to read about the event. http://capecodnow.net/artman/publish/falmouth/Education-Key-To-Reversing-Climate-Change.shtml


July 9, 2008

You can click here to view the Kids Global Climate Change WIKI: http://kidsgcci.pbwiki.com/

See below for some suggested pre-conference assignments

Conference Agenda

Map of Woods Hole Meeting Locations and Local Shops

We are pleased you decided to join us on July 14th. Our town is lucky to have so many world renowned scientific institutions in Woods Hole, a village of Falmouth, Massachusetts. The scientists and other staff associated with the scientific research emanating from Woods Hole have been generous to the schools on Cape Cod for many years. They are working with the Falmouth Public Schools, as they have for many years, to provide you an agenda for a very exciting day of learning.

Our hope is to foster a community of educators and scientists who will have fun and learn together before, during and after the pre-conference. We want to model self-directed, creative, online, collaborative learning so together we can apply what we learn to teaching students.

We invite you to select two or more options from the following list to do prior to, during or after the pre-conference. You can post your reflections on this Ning at any time after joining the site. One way you can do this is to click on the "My Page" tab above and post a comment on your "wall" with a blog post. Here's an example of a personal page with blog post on it.

1. Read two articles about climate change one from a public communications source such as a newspaper, magazine, news web site, or blog and one from a science based source such as IPCC or Oceanus, a magazine about Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution research

2. Calculate your carbon footprint
These sites have carbon emissions calculators:
Nature Conservancy
US EPA
World Resources Institute

3. Write a brief statement in our KidsGCCI Forum to introduce yourself and indicate what you would like to learn from this conference

4. Think about groups with whom you would like to communicate about climate change. Consider the groups you work with on a regular basis. These could be a class of students, colleagues, or community members. What goals do you have for sharing Global Climate Change information learned during this pre-conference?

Falmouth Kids Global Climate Change Institute resources, websites, and an overview of topics, standards and activities.

Lawrence Middle School WIKI
Moving Into 21st Century Technologies
Falmouth Kids Global Climate Change Project
Introducing New Technologies to Grade 7 and 8 Students
The lessons began with the Falmouth Kids Global Climate Change Summer Institute and training from November Learning. Teachers learned about editing sound files, communicating using Skype, programs to record Skype conversations, and podcasts. The challenge was to take the training and create lessons for students to expose them to the exciting new technologies the teachers learned about.

K-12 Essential Principles of Climate Literacy "This guide is the product of a three-day workshop, Climate and Weather Literacy: Using the AAAS Project 2061 Science Literacy Research to Develop Weather and Climate Literacy Framework, in April 2007."


The Climate Change Collection "is a suite of science education web-based resources covering natural climate dynamics as well as human impacts on the climate system. Developed by a team of science teachers, climate scientists and learning experts who reviewed hundreds of resources for accuracy and effectiveness, the collection includes background materials, high-quality web portals, classroom activities, and reseach on misconceptions about weather and climate. "

Dating back to the dawn of the Space Race, calls to improve young people’s mastery of the academic material undergirding U.S. technological strength have been a recurrent refrain in American education.

In the past few years, the leitmotif has grown louder, amplified by concerns about competition from well-educated yet lower-paid foreign workers and the perceived precariousness of U.S. prosperity. Business leaders, governors, and others are urging a redoubled commitment to strengthening U.S. students’ preparation to succeed in the subjects known by the increasingly familiar shorthand of STEM.

As Technology Counts makes clear, American education is listening.