What's up with the Atmosphere?- Teachers bringing real science to young learners

First, Jazzing up is an idiom meaning "capturing attention" or "making a subject more meaningful".

Second: There are a lot of "Jazzing up" subjects on the web.

Third: The story below is just one "jazzing it up" out of many.  This is just one teacher's context to make school cool through multimodalities…a broadened definition of literacy development aimed at both the learner, the learning climate, the actual climate and achievement.

New Education Options's  primary instructor is acting to connect younger and younger children to Science.  By creating a culture of inquiry, prediction, and trial and error in public, title 1 elementary schools, Ms. Lebo is "jazzing up" day to day study of language arts with real time science, big data, blended instruction, team work and math.

NEO's project: "WaterBuddy" is bringing ipads, android and iphones and new apps in citizen science to bear with K-12 student investigation of "The World Around Them" the watershed, the weather conditions, and the clouds.  Through a new series of books and interactive support for classroom study groups, kids see they can make a difference in their studies and their motivation, their skills and comprehension.

Using science activities with  arts standards can bring science off the shelf by inviting multiple learning styles.  With a goal of student engagement through arts integration, Ms. Lebo, NEO's executive director, is acting to overthrow familiar reticence, and worse, student bias against science.  This subject pedagogy deserves further inclusion into daily practice in American classrooms and this kind of instruction is supported in the literature to transform school and open up options for a competitive workforce and student skill advancement.

Bo Lebo's musical exploration in real science is supported by her masters study on "music" and  "linguistics" and driven by science policy and cognitive research.

"Jazzing it up" refers to a set of new learning paradigms, well-researched university content and GLOBE's worldwide group of classrooms gathered by UCAR, NASA, and NOAA actively bringing complex ideas and scientific inquiry to school children.

It draws on the president's initiative to bring climate resiliency to neighborhoods and climate readiness through self-awareness to each of us through hands on activities, STEM awareness and access to school equity through engagement and participation with real Science concepts through functional linguistics and multimodal approaches. 

Kids gain comprehension through familiarity with words, phrases, concepts, and formulas that they would never experience at home. Measurement, descriptors, terms forces, conditions and laws become a playground for cognitive gains and school performance.

While yesterday KidsFirst at Hamlin kids learned about forces and components in chemistry and earth science that they will mimic by building a volcano.  Last month, Gault Street Elementary School studies were captured on video by Cleveland High School Media Academy youth producers in a new release on Teachers Tube and You Tube called "Jazzing up Science".  Meter, mentor, data entry, and inclusion in Nature are part of learning about phenology, becoming Earth Scientists, learning to steward a watershed or taking advantage of a watershed moment in new resources for classroom teachers.  It promises to give students, arts educators, or Lea's a new voice and resources to embrace citizen science as a training tool for new student involvement for gains in language arts, math, and at risk student achievement.  Kids can learn through their own learning style, learn to test, correct, and predict and look at vocabulary in families of words and in the context of Systems Theory. This kind of inquiry is supported by the National Science Foundation in order to respond to our nation's need for new generations of engineers, scientists, mathematicians, and technologists, but it also will put new musicians, drummers, dreamers, and writers on track to find the mentoring and the books they will need to create, discover, compose, or invent. 

Changing the classroom by addressing climate inside and outside can change everything….create jobs for arts teachers and drive our national need for children to acquire long term skills through STEM that will open up their futures.  NEO is reaching for arts inclusion through science for better attendance, motivation, and achievement gains in elementary education.  Familiarity breeds improvement through English Language Arts buoyed by the common core and NGSS standards. 

The program engages children in the world, in their region, and in their local resources from the Zoo, to the Remo Recreational Drum Center, from the Discovery Cube to Hansen Dam, from the park to the Arboretum. 

By tying children to their own need to discover the "music of the Spheres", she is building a new vocabulary that includes the mayor's plan for civic engagement with sustainability and academic words with comprehension that will allow children to more easily test or matriculate through words, wonder, worthiness, comprehension, capacity, collaboration, computer skills, and writing, listening, predicting, proposing, and testing their theorem and their experiments with others. 

This kind of learning is student centered, collaborative, and parallels the kind of workplace environment that they will face when they job shadow or enter internships, college, or the workplace. 

Bravo for the tools, the content, the research, the rubrics, and the Congressional and Presidential support to bring Science to younger children in such an exciting and vibrant way.  Thank you to all the music and VAPA standards researchers and career clusters that have contributed tools, code and contracts that have led to STEM, blended instruction and STEAM as a resources that can reach at risk children and initiate a new potential for a nontraditional learner to catch up one brain at a time.  This is just one of many programs reaching out to make students globally competitive.  The video you have to see yourself to make this more than an empty bla, bla, bla, in other words a picture is really worth 1,000 words. How apt.

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The Video:

http://www.teachertube.com/video/jazzing-up-science-elementary-students-harmonizing-with-globe-426228

What's up with the Atmosphere  …GLOBE:

http://science-edu.larc.nasa.gov/skycolor/

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Aerosols/

Helping schools become more resilient and climate ready for graduation:

https://www.amazon.com/Education-Environment-Creating-Standards-Based-Districts/dp/1612506291?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0

Big Data and Health:

https://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.local_state&stateid=5

http://www3.aqmd.gov/webappl/gisaqi2/VEMap3D.aspx

http://airquality.weather.gov/

Making Science memorable in Elementary school…defining jazzing it up:

http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/jazzing+up

Making Science study idiomatic:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/jazz+up

Multimodal Classroom or functional linguistics:

http://www.inclusiveclassrooms.org/inquiries/multimodal-classroom-engaging-all-learners-grades-7-12-limited-technology

Making Language a culture and a culture adopt language:

http://carla.umn.edu/culture/definitions.html

http://www.livescience.com/21478-what-is-culture-definition-of-culture.html

https://www.amazon.com/Jazzing-Instruction-Integrated-Curriculum-Elementary/dp/193159600X?ie=UTF8&tag=duckduckgo-ffab-20

http://news.mit.edu/2013/dylan-sherry-jazz-music

https://www.questia.com/newspaper/1P2-32577371/jazzing-up-parent-teacher-conferences-with-a-narrative

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/jazzing-euclids-algorithm

Journaling:

http://eric.ed.gov/?q=%22%22&ff1=subLearning+Strategies&id=EJ1051498

http://www.creativeteaching.com/products/jazzing-up-journals

http://www.dedicatedteacher.com/guided-journaling-for-beginning-writers-and-readers-jazzing-up-journals-ebook/creative-teaching-press/CTP2215/pd/

Music to learn language:

http://jonstansell.com/pdfs/Jon_Stansell_The_Use_of_Music_for_Learning_Languages.pdf

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/using-music-strategies-language-arts-classroom-heather-wolpert-gawron

http://community.lessonplanet.com/t/jazzing-up-the-classroom/535

http://www.teachmag.com/archives/8616

Where do the arts belong:

http://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2014/11/18/ctq-jolly-stem-vs-steam.html

http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2014/04/schools-shift-stem-steam

Integrating learning styles:

http://ed.psu.edu/pds/teacher-inquiry/2004/multipleintell_sluboski.pdf

Cognitive Diversity and Memory:

http://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED482822

Music to improve math skills:

https://ruthcatchen.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/how-to-use-music-to-improve-math-skills/

http://www.teachmag.com/archives/category/class-perspectives

Seeing Patterns:

http://architizer.com/blog/seeing-patterns/

Preschool Science:

http://www.childcarelounge.com/environments/science-area.php

http://www.kinderbykim.com/books.htm

Benny the Irish polyglot:

http://www.fluentin3months.com/sing-to-learn-languages/

Jazzing up Neuroscience:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v426/n6965/full/426386a.html

Waterbuddy and Neo's first 152 views:

http://www.teachertube.com/video/jazzing-up-science-elementary-students-harmonizing-with-globe-426228

http://waterbuddy.org/

www.kidsfirst.la

Leaving a legacy engaging all students:

http://www.rootsofrhythm.net/pmc.html

http://remormc.com/

http://everychildneedsmusic.com/