Southern Californians can celebrate a "White Christmas" on the 25thholiday this month in the run up to for the Rose Parade. You can play the Drifters animation while you open gifts thanks to technology and Joshua Held. Christmas is a time for music, family, prayer, and SNOW! (at least this year). It's a teachable moment to use new gear and to have fun making new memories that will last a lifetime.
Last night Christmas Eve, in Canada's Great Hall on Q, "Beverly Hills was a reason to miss home in the North", while White Christmas'sunifying lyrics are still associated with Bette Midler they resounded on the radio while rain fell at 11pm. This morning there will be snow on LA's surrounding mountaintops.
Snowflakes can become an event to study water (hydrology):
With rims of white tips revealed in the morning light, there will be a 2018 white Christmas morning ringing the greater So Cal valleys. This makes today a perfect opportunity that when the presents, services and celebration are done to put several hearts and minds together to figure out how everyone can see the snow from home and stay dry and warm using Google Maps together to see the beautiful system we live within.
With computers and smart phones families or junior scientists can look at the big picture of the mountain range and cities with GIS and read a story to children that will explain our shared water cycle and the mountains are part of our precious geological system that will result in a new layer of our state snow pack. Scientific American to National Geographic have their place, but today is a day kids can make science, stories, meaning making and studies memorable.
With a new book released on the web by GLOBE Elementary, it could make the afternoon or tomorrow exciting to explore hydrology whether with Grandparents, family exploring science at home, or in the near future recreationally, at school or in a park (see the free NASA Earth Observer app).
While the December weather has been rotating between 70 degrees and now 30 or below with the snow, it will be an exciting Christmas day with white mountains, presents, and fun with friends with beautiful views of mountains that with new tools despite the holiday traffic or the shutdown can seen, studied, and explored using smart phones, tablets or cpus.
The carols we see the world newly, but this can bridge to media, to studies, and to the weather. Water awareness during weather variation (Snow) can become a source of state and local water reserves, but rich with new vocabulary, the start of regional climate knowledge, and comprehension of the forces in our geographic areas now impacted by urban and rural changes. Wind, water, and wildfires can become events to comprehend forces, elements, and complexities that lead to good choices during emergencies or debris mudslides, drought, heat and cold that we now call extreme weather.
GLOBE and Earth Observation through community hubs for learning or your computer and phone:
For kids and adults, GLOBE is a great way to learn about the world we live in. You can add Science and IT to holidays, walks or classrooms. A common wireless phone can become a supporting tool for student achievement, for example students will be using digital tablets and sensors in STEM/STEAM explorations. Whether in Scrabble, or storybooks, or through wandering a browser on the web, surely water saving and energy can enter the discussion for peace on Earth and good will towards others because wealth, ease and opportunity come from the planning of water use locally and the integration of California studies with hand held technologies that show us a greater picture of the place we live.
The app and tools make water conservation, weather and energy understandable and show us the synergy of city and countryside that supports our populations. Whether later this January you will want to read more, the books are online in English, Spanish, German, French and the water cycle map in 35 languages.
For more information about helping New Education Options reach more teachers, create STEM jobs, or to underwrite supportive childcare services and home school programs with individual tutoring in the San Fernando Valley, write us at 14431 Ventura Blvd. #312, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423. Our goal to help wildfire families through providing childcare scholarships with the funds we raise before the year ends at the Billy Blanks Sweat Club at Califa and Desoto by raising funds for 60 places and start our capacity building campaign for after school or day programs and our research classroom programs.
Systems thinking through songs to science:
Cities, industries, crops, and homes have risen up from the rich resources of our mountains and valleys. The California Tartan and the Sierra Club tout our landscapes beauty. It's easier to protect our natural systems and resources for ourselves and future generations if we understand them, celebrate their cycles, and participate in seeing their changes using big data and taking a deeper look. Songs remind us of what we value and where we dream to go. They also invigorate, give us courage, and encouragement to believe in our dreams. You can head to the snow in place this holiday making anything possible for young students this holiday including joining the Trees across the GLOBE or Urban Heat campaigns. Plant a seed by reading aloud the book and discussing it.
Summary/Background/News about learning technology and innovations:
New Education Options is working with kids understand citizen science. Consider trying it yourself, it's at your fingertips. AND watch for our upcoming blog, vlog and articles working with students, teachers, scientists, and artists, coming soon through PASCO Scientific (PASCO.com). You can call us for student programs or help us to raise funds to acquire a traveling classroom in Woodland Hills at 818-742-5099. We welcome volunteers for tree and hedge projects or Scrabble fundraisers and for capital donations that are tax exempt before tax time this holiday. Santa and the reindeer, snowmen and songs were never so able to explain the green, white, high color trees, and berries we'll see this morning…"Ho, ho, ho"…have a great, happy and safe holiday.
Bette Midler's White ChristmasCover Lyrics used in Canada…the West Coast from North to South…one watershed:
http://www.metrolyrics.com/white-christmas-lyrics-bette-midler.html
William Elliott's All Hearts are Home for Christmas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwLqzTQL6U8
Kulak's Woodshed writers and Steve Schalchlin using music to help animals via the Rescue Song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s_PpJciJtM
New Snow Storybook (first book about Climate):
https://www.globe.gov/web/elementary-globe/overview/climate
https://sciencenode.org/feature/climate-science-storybook.php
https://www.climate.gov/teaching/professional-development/sharing-climate-story-young-learners-through-elementary-globe
Maps and Data:
https://www.climate.gov/maps-data
Portal for Teachers:
https://www.climate.gov/teaching
Handheld with EOS (Nasa Earth Observer):
https://observer.globe.gov
https://observer.globe.gov/about/get-the-app
Storytelling with Data:
https://www.tableau.com/asset/data-storytelling-using-visualization-share-human-impact-numbers?utm_campaign=Retargeting-CORE-ALL-ALL-ALL-ALL&utm_medium=Display&utm_source=Google+Display&utm_campaign_id=2017049&utm_language=EN&utm_country=USCA&kw=%7Bkeyword%7D&adgroup=WEB-All+Other&adused=%7Bcreative%7D&matchtype=%7Bmatchtype%7D&placement=%7Bplacement%7D&creative=c18viz-redline&dclid=&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIg4-XiMO63wIVjKdpCh2y_A9lEAEYASAAEgKcpfD_BwE
Landcover from space and weather that causes disease or helps crops:
https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2004/12mar_disease
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-26/all-the-things-satellites-can-now-see-from-space
CBC Christmas Eve on CBC, Finale on Q, White Christmaswith pre-chorus on Beverly Hills from the Great Hall:
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/
Thank you for helping us remember to feel our thoughts and dreams through songs, words, stories, and characters……in a time where we need to replant, conserve, restore and renew the Californian dream into the inheritance of tomorrow for all of us:
https://yipharburg.com