Education/Telecon 2018-08-08

From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)

August 8, 2018 Participants: Shelley Kalo Becky LuAnn Patrick Carla

Agenda: Fiscal year 2019 budget items to discuss

Due Date… end of August. Continue discussions online too.

What project(s) do we want to consider?

A return to broader Earth Science? Continue w/ coding, with support from Jupyter gurus? Supporting other Edu/training components w/in ESIP?

ESIP Theme 2019 is … “Looking Forward” proposed


Yes move ahead - Coding in classroom: taking it into orbit w/ Jupyter

Is this a Special Project? Special project max = $7k

Funding for Jupyter & curriculum experts to put a learning module together in Jupyter?


Should this be an ESIP special funded project too?

Purpose: How to use coding as a tool to promote Earth Science learning/ ESIP content to school

Using ESIP Hub: Sean Gordon, Ben, Keith Maul, Ben G, others - modify some project that already exist

Frank G has good examples

ProjectGUTS - http://159.65.232.49/ https://teacherswithguts.org/welcome

Way to connect - earth science, citizen science, data

Yes - move ahead - Sponsoring students

Yes - move ahead- SACNAS student - Earth Science focus ($1000) (http://sacnas.org/)

Attach some strings - report back

Need to hear who is the recipient?

What is this money used for? Any obligation?

Where is the money sent?

Is the presented by Erin Robinson

Ask Erin to share her experience

Other/More options - to teacher, Friends of Earth Science NESTA reception @ NSTA national; (NAGT, NOAA) - certificate

No - Student @ EER ? ... ESIP summer workshop location (under discussion) …

Yes - move ahead - Teacher Workshop @ ESIP Summer Meeting

One day workshop

Partial funding (registration) comes from NOAA

ESIP funds stipends, instructors, materials

Yes - move head - Presenting @ NSTA national 2019 (have an abstract in for 1 or 2 hour session)

St. Louis (National): April. 11–14, 2019

(still waiting to hear on session proposal)

Share a thon(s)

2 people

Yes for 2 regional 2019 + Share-a-thon Charlotte-- Present @ Regional NSTA Share-a-thon @ Charlotte (Charlotte: Nov. 29–Dec. 1, 2018)

Share a thon is Friday, November 30 11AM to 12PM

What would we share? Drones, coding..

Registration for day & fuel & one night stay to help

Kalo could possibly go

FYI - Reno: Oct. 11–13, 2018

Registration for day - & fuel & one night stay

Registration dates

Reno, NV: Early bird: Aug. 31, 2018 Advanced:Reno: Sept. 21, 2018

Charlotte, NC:Early bird: Oct. 19, 2018 Advanced: Nov. 9, 2018

FYI - National Harbor (MD): Nov. 15–17, 2018

Early bird 190 full/170 one day; advanced 200/180 one day

Dates due:

Yes - 2+1 Abstracts for Regional NSTAs + National for 2020?

Abstract funds

Typically deadline for Regional proposals is around January 15 each year

Deadline for National is approximately April 15

Locations have not been determined yet.

If 1-2 are within driving distance - do we want to present? what to present? + do the shareathon

yes 2018 AGU + No to - GIFT 2018

Hint: topic well aligned w/ NGSS and teachers can see themselves using it in the classroom, (Google Glass - cardboard - took people to Earth science

sites; Climate change sessions w/ database & activities)

Not doing - GIFT Proposal due August 31, 2018

Requires: hands on component

Science scientist / communicator

deadline Aug 31

Location: in DC

support for 2 instructors

Dates: December 10-11, 2018 (full conference: Dec 10 - 14, 2018) - maybe can help w/ ESIP booth for other days?

Application: https://serc.carleton.edu/nesta/gift.html

Let’s plan on 2019 GIFT @ AGU - in San Fran

(Ask Erin about professional meetings and presentations)

Yes - 2019 AMS

Margaret, / Carla, / Shelley(?)

no-2018 GSA conference - ?

present & great for recruitment for next summer workshop (message to participants: You can do even more if you come to the summer workshop)

Deadline 14 August, 11:59 p.m. PDT

Nov 4 - 7 in Indianapolis

Carla will be at GSA

?? 2019 GSA conference - in Phoenix in September 2019

Carla is the K-12 Program Committee Chair; Is there any way that ESIP would like to be involved? Eg short course?

Special project: PocketLab project in the classroom from Kalo Haslem

Had been a FUNding Friday submission

Details: see below

ESIP Finance Committee Special Projects Request for Proposals: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b3ZZ7pvDHsx9Qf8wv- 9VXi8IEdm7MLSmBNGQ_Elk1b0/edit#heading=h.ydm2yiiyco2

Out 2 Lunch

4 sessions in the fall; 4 in the spring

Margaret sending invites

Your ideas!!

2. Please do your summer meeting expenses!

Send to Shelley & staff@esip.org Slides & Pics - if you need the link, I will send it (its a public link so I don’t want to post it here, a public viewable doc)

3. Summer workshop recap - lessons learned? Reflections?

   Expenses

4. Details - Special project: PocketLab project in the classroom from Kalo Haslem PocketLab Project Presentation


Initial lesson Ideas:


Activities would be published multiple places: ESIP, sensor website (w/ attribution to ESIP), etc

Future activities could tie data collected w/ remote sensed data

Possible citizen science focus

Use with past focuses such as drones and coding

Lending library & permanent ‘donation’?

Projects from 2017-2018


Extra notes: Encourage to make dates for summer meeting soon