New Education Options (NEO) is working with Globe Elementary Materials from UCAR and NSF partners locally and nationally since visiting and doing science in Woods Hole in April 2014. We are a Globe U.S. Partner working in Elementary Schools in ESC NW in LAUSD starting with "What's up with the Atmosphere?- Exploring the Colors of the Sky" in 4th grade. We are now able to take Donor Advised Fund donations with Fidelity Investments and Schwab and their partners from the website at www.waterbuddy.org and you can see our "World Around Me" debut with Kids First students from Hamlin Charter Academy in their video section www.kidsfirst.la or hear about Lynda Reichbach's great unstoppable enrichment programming now featured historically in "It's Elementary my dear" on Teachers Tube or at Youtube featuring a student video created at Cleveland Media Academy by KCAV students and youth video producers. We are looking forward to bringing our elementary video sequence from the NASA/Langely book together with Career Tech tools and student advisors in the next round of working with the new Atmosphere book and taking observations digitally as well as in our journals.
Our exploration of Globe tools continues our school located near Lake Balboa and the Sepulveda Basin following up on teacher collection, input, and research experiences in the park courses led by Gary Randolph near the 100 year flood marker and the outdoor classroom this summer. As a part of learning to do measurements in real time with new Apple or Android tools, we are continuing on in the early grades as a part of our follow-up of the 2015 District and Mayor sponsored Globe Annual Conference last July.
We are now becoming sky observers and finding other LACOE and PREL.org resources that can make this really fun! We have matched funds to open a second school for Kids First once we find a second site. As our nonprofit, we are recruiting for LAUSD, BUSD, GUSD teachers whether English, Arts, or other subject specialists or generalists and students into our ESSA oriented Globe Programs. We'd love you to join us as Waterbuddy (in helping Californians and District 3 student bodies to save water) or in early education settings singing and laughing while learning with Kids First.la (contact us at 818-742-5099 by text or phone).
As a live performance piece using relaxed awareness and real time science, we are sharing what we learned at the annual conference and are now reaching out to museums, classrooms, learning centers and libraries to speak and present. For EarthDay and as a nonprofit engaged in music, health, school contentment, and student success, we are making our Nature infrastructure more accessible and we are testing and using new handheld consumer electronics just as we have in the past with the Flashmic and with the Music Tutor, Fender, Shure, Sennsheiser, Janome, Swivl, Thinkpads and other tools.
Then we are headed to the NSTA meeting in Nashville and would love some company, a stipend or a grant, or new teachers to talk to and learn what they are doing for our MEI/Songworks conference or RMPDA and BEA conferences later this Spring. Watch for new videos, new songs, new curricula, and new downloads next month. The new "What's up book"…is not to be confused by "What's app" getting so much press because of Zinka this month….but it's really great to be able to tell arts teachers that they can talk about color or music teachers they can sing about the sky and then go out in the school yard and measure it (Humidity, Particles, Heat, and more). Rodgers and Hammerstein to Ella Jenkins, Trout Fishing in America, to Peter Alsop and Bill Harley, Raffi, to Sarah Vaughan and Suni Paz, Jackson Brown, Pete Seeger, or the Green Songbook by Guitars in the Classroom….
Globe:
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/k-4/features/F_Elementary_GLOBE.html
Classroom Collaboratives:
http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/classrooms/gayle/projects/projects.html#experts
http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/classrooms/gayle/projects/projects.html
Globe Learning:
http://www.colorado.edu/journals/cye/13_2/FieldReports/GLOBE/GLOBEProgram.htm
Distance Learning:
http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/projects/projects.html
Making Data Count:
http://www.globe.gov/news-events/e-newsletters/e-newsletters-2015/may/may_2015_news_brief
Using other measures to reach kids:
http://www.nea.org/home/11616.htm
Nasa Videos and media:
http://www.nasa.gov/index.html
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/index.html
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
NSTA books:
http://www.nsta.org/publications/ostb/
Seer.org:
Education and the Environment book by Gerald Lieberman (2013)
Resources behind NSF policy:
Fun Sphere Ideas (Atmosphere, Geosphere, Hydrosphere, Biosphere):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LODMQ3irprk
Resources
Hunt, V., Layton, D., & Prince, S. (February, 2015). Diversity matters. McKinsey & Company.
Kania, J., & Kramer, M. (2011). Collective impact, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Winter. Retrieved from http://www.ssir.org/articles/entry/collective_impact" http://www.ssir.org/articles/entry/collective_impact.
National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (2015). Women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in science and engineering. Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation.
Committee on Underrepresented Groups and the Expansion of the Science and Engineering Workforce Pipeline, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, & Policy and Global Affairs (2014). Expanding underrepresented minority participation: America's science and technology talent at the crossroads. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.
Teacher Tool Websites- many sources:
http://www.reallygoodstuff.com/?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=SEM%20Bing%20NB%20-%20Teacher&utm_term=%2Bteacher%20%2BTools&utm_content=Teacher%20Tools
http://www.teachers-tools.com/
http://teachers.net/tools/
http://education.ohio.gov/Topics/Teaching/Tools-for-Teachers
http://www.4teachers.org/tools/
http://www.teachertools.org/index.html
It's Elementary My Dear (QRC codes or on youtube) 2:05 min: