Workshop for Colorado Middle and High School Science Teachers

Earth Systems Science: Exploring Change in the Critical Zone
Teacher Professional Development Field Course for Middle and High School Practitioners

Join experts from the University of Colorado Boulder and other national-level organizations for three days of experiential learning, field-science research, hands-on activities and classroom resources focused on Earth Systems Science and the Boulder Creek Critical Zone Observatory Program. Based from the inspiring CU Mountain Research Station on Niwot Ridge, with field explorations of local steams, ponds, snowfields, research sites and areas impacted by recent forest fires, this will be a fun, enriching and educational experience for all participants. http://sciencediscovery.colorado.edu/teacher-mountain-research-experience/

Yellowstone Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) Resource Education Curriculum (REC) 2014

http://repository.uwyo.edu/ycc_rec/

The AirWaterGas Teacher Professional Development Program

 Drill rigs have become a common sight in Colorado and have raised concerns. Learn about ways to tackle the topics of climate change and issues surrounding oil and gas extraction with your students through a year-long blended learning experience.
http://spark.ucar.edu/airwatergas-pd

Lifting Up: How Big Data Can Help Eliminate Poverty

http://smartdatacollective.com/rick-delgado/200566/lifting-how-big-data-can-help-eliminate-poverty

Take a look at Colorado Nonprofit Association's website and us - Colorado Geographic Alliance - featured for Member Appreciation Month!

http://www.coloradononprofits.org/

National Geographic - Connect! Transform the Future

http://www.connectenergyed.org/?ar_a=1&utm_source=NatGeocom&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=education_20140412&utm_campaign=Content#
The Center for Science is a national collaborative network focused on advancing science and technology, starting with the nation's youth. For Connect! Transform the Future, six of its leading science centers have partnered with National Geographic and GE to educate students about energy, engage them in a conversation about the future of energy, and inspire them to be the next generation of scientists and engineers.

Congratulations to UCCS Center for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Education (CSTEME) on their award winning program "Tech that Helps – Transforming Kids from Tech Users to Tech Makers Using Arduino Microcontrollers.”

http://communique.uccs.edu/?p=15168

How "Big Data" is Changing Lives

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-21535739

Dwindling Food Variety - National Geographic Learning Resource

This media can be used in a variety of contexts—from media spotlights to encyclopedic entries to lessons. From the linked page, check out the different ways you can use this Graphic.

http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/photo/seedbank-graphic/?ar_a=3&utm_source=NatGeocom&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=education_20140503&utm_campaign=Content

11th International Conference of the Learning Sciences Boulder, Colorado, USA June 23-27, 2014

http://www.isls.org/icls2014/index.htm

Sheltered Instruction Using Project Learning Tree and Project Wild, Workshop, June 19 - 20, 2014

http://coloradoplt.org/workshop/sheltered-instruction-using-project-learning-tree-and-project-wild/

Climate Science Connections: Water in the West

Free online course for Colorado Educators,  June 2 - 30
This online course is build around panel discussions with hydrologists, policy makers, engineers, and science educators. In the course we explore challenges for water management in the Western US both at a large scale – using the Colorado River Basin Watershed as an example – and at small scale – using the Boulder Creek watershed as an example where flooding occurred on the heals of drought and wildfire damage.
https://www.canvas.net/courses/climate-science-connections-water-in-the-west

Defining "the South".

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/which-states-are-in-the-south/

Retronyms: Linguistic Shifts

http://mentalfloss.com/article/56478/15-retronyms-when-youre-talking-old-school

Watch 62 Years of Global Warming in 13 Seconds

http://www.climatecentral.org/watch-62-years-of-global-warming-in-13-seconds-15469.html

BYU study reveals historical droughts in the West

9 Droughts Dwarfed Dust Bowl in the Past 500 Years

http://news.discovery.com/earth/weather-extreme-events/9-droughts-dwarfed-dust-bowl-during-the-past-500-years-140507.htm

Food Chain - Learning Resource by National Geographic

http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/encyclopedia/food-chain/?ar_a=3&utm_source=NatGeocom&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=education_20140503&utm_campaign=Content

Spatial Environmental Education

Zooming in to a satellite image to examine deforestation, visualizing the retreat of a glacier, and navigating a trail on a smartphone have become commonplace in the 21st century. For centuries, maps have stirred imaginations and inspired explorations of the unknown. Far from the static documents of the past, today’s maps can be manipulated and combined with other maps, charts, images, databases, videos, websites, and other data to help us understand spatial relationships. Geotechnologies make the maps and the everyday activities detailed above possible.  However, the technologies are effective because the people using them have cultivated a spatial way of looking at the world by examining patterns, relationships and trends through maps.  Decisions that use GIS include planning urban greenways, mitigating invasive weeds, locating optimal sites for wind energy, and studying the impact of groundwater withdrawal on aquifers, from a local to global scale. 

 http://blogs.esri.com/esri/gisedcom/2014/05/09/spatial-environmental-education/

32nd Annual NSELA Summer Leadership Institute - The Road Ahead

Preparing to Lead Through Innovation

June 24-27, 2014

Colorado Springs, Colorado

COGA Coordinator Steve Jennings will be leading the field trip, The Impact of Fire in the Wildland-Urban Interface, on Saturday morning during this conference.  For more information, visit www.NSELA.org/SLI

National Geographic Education is looking for your input -

National Geographic wants to know how Geography Educators are using the MapMaker Interactive Tool in your teaching and learning environment. If your tips are chosen, you will be credited on the NatGeoEd.org website!
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/B9VT3BW?utm_source=AC+BLAST+for+May+5%2C+2014&utm_campaign=AC+BLAST&utm_medium=email

Geography Game for the Classroom - Map Treasure Hunt

Geography Game to play with Students! Provide as many questions (clues) and answers (locations) as you like to create a virutal 'treasure hunt'. When you are finished you can save the game and share it with others. Players have to use each clue to collect the 'coins' that appear in each of your secret locations.  http://www.classtools.net/mapgame/game.php