Education/Telecon 2019-08-15

August 15, 2019 @ 3pm ET

Participants: Becky Reid, Shelley Olds, Elizabeth Joyner, Patricia Reiff, Megan Carter

Agenda:

Budget Day!

1. Data tool - Out to Lunch -

• Margaret not leading
• Fall: Pat - Transit of Mercury… early November … Before Nov 11 ;
  • Hold it Wed 6th
  • Live webcam
  • Crosses the middle of the Sun
  • Next is 2032
• Kalo - Spring - 20 minute
• Becky to enlist
• Rotate the moderating
• We’ll talk more next meeting

2. Learn to code initiative -

• Continuing? Yes. to be planned in detail.
• Goal for attending Vermont meeting is to give folks a taste of what they could do at the upcoming summer meeting
• ESIP Hub is no longer available. We could use Google Collaboratory?
• LuAnn has an idea for showing how to use coding to request info from ACIS (applied climate information service) to produce climate graphs. Environment may be less constrained.
• Another idea: Take Jupyter code (python) and turn it into block coding. (Jupyter environment is pretty complex and has LOTS of dependencies.
• We also have Scratch / Blockly examples from Becky. Coding to explore Earth / Data Science.
• Shelley is working on a tephra/volcanic example through Concord Consortium.
• Here’s another tool that we could use: https://codap.concord.org
• Budget:
  • Winter meeting working session (2 + chair) [2 sessions same $$]
  • Instructional / curriculum to build the in-between steps to get teachers from scratch to Jupyter
    • How this relates to ESS
    • Pull in myNASAdata?
    • Use images (from GOES / myNASAdata) to linking to make these happen
  • Make contact with a local science teacher (coordinator/supervisor) / after school leader to bring to the Winter Meeting (Substitute teacher funding + local travel)
• Summer teacher workshop
  • This is part of the main ESIP budget - remind Erin that it goes into the main budget.

3. Share ESIP learning resources via workshops/ conferences

• Adopt a school in DC area - underserved
  • Boy’s & Girl’s club, Girl’s Inc;
  • We bring geoscience data science and Jupyter notebook - to understand the world works ;
  • Girl (/Boy) Scouts - STEM badges & journeys (longer more involved);
  • How to get a contact in the DC - GIFT workshop teacher list from AGU 2018? … Elizabeth has a contact - - Dr. Gofrey Rangasammy - science supervisor K-12 for Prince George’s County School.
    • Dr. Godfrey Rangasammy
    • Science Supervisor, K-12
    • godfreyr@pgcps.org
  • Goals / objectives before reaching out…
  • Budget: [stipend that covers substitutes] Or bring in a few teachers for observation and feedback for winter meeting
• Fall conferences - with focus on local conference will be close to next ESIP Summer Meeting
  • Budget: travel for 4
• Present @ AGU - Budget: for 1 for 2 nights

4. ESIP Ed PocketLab - we don’t need to put it in the 2020 budget since its already allocated.