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18 March 2004

UT Austin GK-12 NEWS is published bi-monthly on current and future activities of interest to all GK-12 participants in Port Aransas (UTMSI) and Austin (ESI and UTIG).

New in this issue:

·        Grants/Awards for K-12 Science Teachers section!

·        Recent presentations are now listed with the full citation of the published abstract.

·        Meetings and conferences are now split into science meetings and education meetings.

·        Education and Science Highlights

All items new for this issue will have the event date highlighted.

 

Education Highlights:

·        15-20 March 2004 is Excellence in Science, Technology, and Mathematics Education Week.

·        Students find lessons in high-tech hide-and-seek.

Science Highlights:

·        New planetoid discovered in our solar system.

·        What really happened to the dinosaurs?

 

 

UTMSI

ESI

UTIG

Meeting Dates

 

Monthly meetings at 4:30 pm, the second Wednesday of each month.

 

22 March 2004

UTMSI video classroom

14 April 2004

Flour Bluff Intermediate School

12 May 2004

UTMSI video classroom

13 April 2004  6-7:30 pm at Nancy Nixon’s house. 

 

11 May 2004  6-9 pm

26-27 March

Workshop with IRIS/SSA; Outreach Lecture Series

Lecture Series

SCHWEPPE SERIES http://www.utmsi.utexas.edu/research/seminars/schweppe.htm

 

18 March 2004.  Rudi Strickler

The Small Universe within the Large Ocean: How Do Planktonic Animals Find their Food and Mates without Running Into Predators?

 

PUBLIC LECTURES

http://www.utmsi.utexas.edu/outreach/public_lectures.htm

 

 

OUTREACH LECTURE SERIES

www.geo.utexas.edu/esi/outreach/lectures.html

 

26 March 2004.  David Wald

Citizen Science: Man versus Machine in Providing Rapid Earthquake Information

23 April 2004.  John Abbott

Texas’ Tiny Wonders: Scientific Tales from the Insect World

 

The School of Biological Sciences lists their lectures and seminars at http://www.biosci.utexas.edu/calendar/viewMonthList.asp?calendarID=0

26 March 2004.  David Wald

Rapid Earthquake Information: Citizen Science and New Tools for Emergency Response.  Lecture sponsored by IRIS/SSA, UTIG and the Outreach Lecture Series.

An extensive listing of Jackson School of Geosciences lectures can be found at http://www.geo.utexas.edu/techtalks/index.html#March

Clicking on the presenter’s name will bring up a list of the lecture titles for that week and links to the presentation abstract when available.

Research Experience for Teachers

Summer 2004.  Rivers of the Peruvian Amazon (Oxapampa, Peru)

Paula Fluhrer of Dublin Coffman High School, Dublin, Ohio

 

15 May-23 June 2004.  Arctic Climate Change (USCG ice breaker Healy) Alaska

Patty Cie, Yelm Middle School, Yelm, Washington

 

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4 April-18 May 2004.  SE Caribbean Tectonic Study on R/V Ewing. 

Meredith Keelan, O.H. Herman Middle School

 

July 2004.  Blanco Fracture Zone Seismic Experiment on the on R/V Ewing

Donna Clarke, Round Rock High School

 

Follow these cruises at www.ig.utexas.edu/outreach/ttif/index.htm

Other Affiliated Outreach

UTMSI Mustang Island Elderhostel Program

Short-term programs (~1 week) on Gulf Coast birds for adults over 55

http://www.utmsi.utexas.edu/outreach/elderhostel/elderhostel.htm

ESI Newsletters

ESI maintains newsletters to notify the community on outreach activities.

http://www.geo.utexas.edu/esi/outreach/newsletters.html

UTIG Outreach

A list of other UTIG affiliated outreach activities can be found at http://www.ig.utexas.edu/outreach/index.htm

GK-12 Workshops/ Field Trips

30 April 2004.

Spring workshop: final lesson plan development, post-TAKS field extravaganza, and symposium presentation.

 

3-9 June 2004.  GK-12 Summer Field Course, Port Aransas

http://www.utmsi.utexas.edu/people/staff/dunton/GK12/summercourse.htm

1 May 2004

Workshop on entomology and water quality to follow-up on John Abbott’s OLS on 23 April.

27 March 2004.  GK-12 and Geoscience in the Classroom workshop in conjunction with David Wald‘s OLS talk “Citizen Science."  Presenters will include GK-12 Teachers and Fellows, David Wald (USGS), Cliff Frohlich (UTIG), Jay Pulliam (UTIG), and Governor’s Office of Emergency Management.  Professional development credit offered and materials provided for participants.

16 April 2004.  Workshop – details TBA

 

Year-end UT Austin GK-12 Symposium – Monday 7 June, 2-7 pm, Port Aransas

 

GK-12 Summer Field Course – 3-9 June 2004, Port Aransas (graduate course credit for teachers!)

(http://www.utmsi.utexas.edu/people/staff/dunton/GK12/summercourse.htm

Professional Development

 

1 May 2004

Open to non-GK-12 teachers.  Lessons and professional development credit will be available.  Advanced registration required; space will be limited.  Registration information will be announced at a later date. 

27 March 2004. 

Professional development credit offered and materials provided for participants.

 

Recent Presentations

10 March 2004.  Center for Ocean Science Education Excellence

Marilyn Cook and Andrea Kopecky.  Using inquiry to promote scientific thinking in the classroom

 

15 March 2004.  South-Central Geological Society of America

Marilyn Cook and Andrea Kopecky.  2004.  Using inquiry to promote scientific thinking in the classroom.  Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America 36(1):7.

26-28 February 2004.  Texas Middle School Association Conference

Adrian Carrales, Tricia Jarrott, Lynn Kirby, Alex Hendrex, Nancy Nixon, Dennis Ruez, and Jay Banner.  2004.  University outreach:  the GK-12 program's impact on curriculum change in science and social studies.  Converging in the Middle:  Texas Middle School Association Annual, 29th Annual Conference, Austin, Texas, February 26-28, 2004, p. 22.

 

5 March 2004.  Texas Academy of Science

Lynn Kirby, Jane Thomson, Jasmine Thum, Chloe Tuck, and Amanda Villarreal.  2004.  Texas air:  the Austin ozone problem.  Program and Abstracts of the 107th Annual Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science, p. 86.

Tricia Jarrott, Sir VanLawrence Franks, Antonio Gomez, and Raymond Selby.  Solid waste and carbon dioxide in the Austin area.  Program and Abstracts of the 107th Annual Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science, p. 87.

 

15 March 2004.  South-Central GSA

Veronica Chapa-Jones, Jessica Gordon, and Nancy Poage-Nixon.  2004.  Ecology and community:  alternative approaches with GIS.  Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America 36(1):6-7.

Carla G. Guthrie and Martha M. Maas.  2004.  Adaptation of a stream rapid  bioassessment protocol to teach the concept of biomonitoring in the classroom.  Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America 36(1):7.

Jay L. Banner, Libby A. Stern, and Nelson Guda.  2004.  A novel lecture series and associated outreach program in the environmental and natural sciences.  Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America 36(1):6.

Jessica D. Gordon, Sara J. Hilgers, and Nancy P. Nixon.  2004.  Utilizing long-term soil experiments to engage students in scientific learning.  Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America 36(1):7.

Dennis R. Ruez, Jr. and Jay L. Banner.  2004.  Back to school:  graduate students and university researchers in environmental sciences join K-12 classrooms.  Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America 36(1):6.

Lynn Kirby.  2004.  Measuring your carbon dioxide footprint.  Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America 36(1):6.

15 March 2004.  South-Central Geological Society of America

Sean M. Sullivan, Kathy K. Ellins, and Murry Fly.  2004.  Technology in the classroom: remaining a step ahead.  Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America 36(1):6.

Amanda Clapp, Mae Dinan, D. Thomas, and Katherine K. Ellins. 2004.  Environment succession: geoscience in an urban setting.  Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America 36(1):6.

Katherine K. Ellins, Amanda Clapp, Vanessa Svihla, and S. Sullivan.  2004.  Improving K-12 geoscience education through partnerships.  Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America 36(1):6.

 

Future Presentations

 

7-10 August 2004.  ESRI Education User Conference 2004

Veronica Chapa, Jessica Gordon, and Barbara Parmenter.  Creating Community: University of Texas at Austin and Local Schools.

 

3-5 May 2004.  Rocky Mountain/Cordilleran GSA

Vanessa Svihla, Tim Fennell, and Katherine Ellins.  Effective problem-based activities: imparting content and learning skills through a debate on the K-T extinction event.

 

5 May 2004.  UTIG Spring Fellowship Seminar

All UTIG Fellows

 

31 March-3 April 2005.  National Science Teachers Association National Convention

Mary Phillips (Waco ISD) and Donna Clarke (Round Rock ISD).  Texas Teachers in the Field Presentation

2004-2005 Application Deadlines

Fellows –  7 June 2004

Teachers – 7 June 2004

Fellows – 23 April 2004

Teachers – 7 May 2004

 

 

Events listed on the following pages are not organized or supported by UT Austin GK-12, but are provided because they may be of interest to GK-12 participants.  These lists are updated biweekly.  Please send any additions to your program coordinator. 
Future Meetings/Conferences - Education:

 

29 March-1 April 2004 – Texas Distance Learning Association Conference, Galveston Island, Texas.  http://www.txdla.org/conference

31 March-4 April 2004 – National Earth Science Teachers Association meeting, Atlanta.  http://www.nestanet.org/events.html

1-4 April 2004 – National Science Teachers Association national convention, Atlanta, Georgia.  No longer accepting abstracts.  http://www.nsta.org/conventiondetail&Meeting_Code=2004ATL

4 May 2004 – Let the Quest Begin: a multimedia festival, Corpus Christi.  http://www.roymillerhighschool.com/multimedia.html

20-23 June 2004 – National Educational Computing Conference, New Orleans.  http://www.iste.org/necc

7-10 August 2004 – ESRI Education Users Conference, San Diego.  No longer accepting abstracts.  http://www.esri.com/events/uc/papers/callforpapers.html

21-24 October 2004 – Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science, Austin.  No longer accepting abstracts.   http://www.sacnas.org/cfpk1204.html

4-6 November 2004 – Conference for the Advancement of Science Teaching, Corpus Christi.  Abstract deadline 30 April 2004.  http://www.statweb.org/CASTCC/

10-13 November 2004 – National Association of Biology Teachers, Chicago.  No longer accepting abstracts.  http://www.nabt.org/sup/conferences/

31 March-3 April 2005 – National Science Teachers Association national convention, Dallas, Texas.  Abstract deadline 15 April 2004.  http://www.nsta.org/conventions

 

Future Meetings/Conferences - Science:

 

1-3 April 2004 – Research on the Environmental Sustainability for Semi Arid Coastal Areas Conference, Kingsville, Texas.  No longer accepting abstracts.  http://www.stei.org/events-rba.shtml

15-17 April 2004 – Southwestern Association of Naturalists, San Antonio.  No longer accepting abstracts.  http://www.biosurvery.ou.edu/swan/meet04/Call_for_Papers.html

17-20 May – 4th National Water Quality Monitoring Council Conference, Chattanooga.  No longer accepting abstracts.  http://www.nwqmc.org/2004conference.pdf

13-18 June 2004 – American Society of Limnology and Oceanography summer meeting.  No longer accepting abstracts.  http://www.aslo.org/meetings/savannah2004/

27 June-2 July 2004 – 11th International Symposium on Water-Rock Interaction, Saratoga Springs, New York.  No longer accepting abstracts.  http://www.outreach.psu.edu/C&I/WRI/

15-17 September 2004 – Texas Water Monitoring Congress, Austin.  Includes focus group on public outreach.  No longer accepting abstracts.  http://www.txwmc.org/2004_Congress/TWMC_2004_Call_for_Papers.pdf

7-10 November 2004 – Geological Society of America national meeting, Denver.  Will include K-16 education session.  Session proposal deadline 15 January 2004.  Abstract deadline 13 July.  http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2004/

13-17 December 2004 – American Geophysical Union fall meeting, San Francisco.  Abstract deadline not announced.  http://www.agu.org/meetings/meetings.html

 

Other Professional Development – Teachers

 

January-July 2004 – Teacher workshops at Fort Worth Zoo.  http://www.fortworthzoo.com/school/workshops.html

20-21, 27 March 2004 – Texas Archeology Academy, El Paso.  $90.  http://www.txarch.org/arch/2004.html

28 March 2004 – Play With Your Food: The Best of Edible Science.  Museum of Health and Medical Science, Houston.  $20.  http://www.mhms.org/images/workshops_spring_2004.pdf

3 April 2004 – Brain Attach!  Teacher Workshop.  Museum of Health and Medical Science, Houston.  $20.  http://www.mhms.org/images/workshops_spring_2004.pdf

24 April 2004 – Wet in the City Professional Development.  Museum of Health and Medical Science, Houston.  $20.  http://www.mhms.org/images/workshops_spring_2004.pdf

24-25 April, 1 May 2004 – Texas Archeology Academy, Corpus Christi.  $90.  http://www.txarch.org/arch/2004.html

May-October 2004 – Advanced, Professional and Specialty Natural History Science Seminars at Eagle Hill on the Maine Coast.  There are about 30 different seminars, mostly about botany.  http://www.eaglehill.us/mgeninf.html.

8 May 2004 – That’s a Family!  Teacher Workshop.  Museum of Health and Medical Science, Houston.  $20.  http://www.mhms.org/images/workshops_spring_2004.pdf

7-11 June 2004 – Texas Mining and Reclamation Association Teacher Workshop, Rockdale, Texas.  FREE.  http://www.tmra.com/freeteacherworkshop.html

7-11 June 2004 – Physics Teaching Resource Agent’s Rural Program, by American Association of Physics Teachers, College Station.  Stipend offered for teachers.  http://teacher.physics.tamu.edu/

14-25 June 2004.  Teaching Environmental Science.  Texas State University-San Marcos.  FREE.  http://www.texaswatch.geo.swt.edu/TES.htm

21-25 June 2004 – Texas Mining and Reclamation Association Teacher Workshop, Rockdale, Texas.  FREE.  http://www.tmra.com/freeteacherworkshop.html

June-July 2004 – Teacher workshops at McDonald Observatory.  http://drs.yahoo.com/S=2766679/K=teacher+workshops+2004+texas/v=2/SID=w/l=WS1/R=1/H=0/*-http://mcdonaldobservatory.org/teachers/profdev/

10-14 July 2004 – Down Under, Out Yonder Workshop for Educators, Galveston.  $100-$250.  http://gulfmex.org/duoy.htm

17-21 July 2004 – National Energy Conference for Educators, Galveston.  http://www.need.org/training.htm

 

Grants/Awards for K-12 Science Educators (listed by closing dates)

 

19 April 2004 – 2004 All-USA Teacher Team Awards.  $2,500.  http://allstars.usatoday.com

1 May 2004 – Evolution Education Award.  $1,000.  http://www.nabt.org/sup/education/awards.asp

21 May 2004 – CAPCO Science Class Challenge Contest.  $500-$5,000.  http://www.nocfcs.org/scc/scchome.htm

10 June 2004 – Lindbergh Foundation grants for projects balancing the advance of technology and the preservation of the natural environment.  Up to $10,580.  http://www.lindberghfoundation.org/grants/grantapp2005.html

10 June 2004 – National Geographic Society Education Foundation.  Up to $5,000.  http://www.nationalgeographic.com/education/teacher_community/get_grant.html

19 January 2005 – Toyota Tapestry Grants for Teachers.  50 grants of up to $10,000 and 20 mini-grants of $2,500 to K-12 science teachers.  http://www.nsta.org/programs/tapestry/index.htm

1 August annually – NWA Sol Hirsch Education Fund Grants to improve student education in meteoroloy.  $500.  http://www.nwas.org/solhirsch.html

15 September annually – Ezra Jack Keats Foundation grants to encourage literacy and creativity in children.  $350.  http://www.ezra-jack-keats.org/programs/minigrants.htm

1 February, 1 May, 1 August, and 1 November annually – American Honda Foundation grants to support projects with a focus on math , science, the environment, and techonology.  $10,000-$75,000.  http://www.hondacorporate.com/community/index.html?subsection=foundation

31 March, 30 June, 30 September, and 31 December annually – Captain Planet Foundation grants to promote understanding of environmental issues.  $500.  http://www.captainplanetfdn.org/

15 September, 1 February, and 1 June annually.  NEA Foundation for the Improvement of Education.  Up to $5,000.  http://www.nfie.org/programs/grantguides.htm

 

 

 

 

Other Professional Development – Fellows

 

26 March 2004 – From passion to practice:  planning your career after graduate school.  noon to 2pm, UTC 4.102.  FREE.  http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/forms/career.html

2 April 2004 – Scholarship at work: UT scholars, artists, and partnerships in the public sphere.  A practical and philosophical colloquium of UT faculty, graduate students, administrators, and community members.  8:30am-3:15pm, Avaya Auditorium (ACES 2.302).  Sponsored by the UT Humanities Institute and the Graduate Professional Development and Community Engagement Program.  FREE.  http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/pdce/saw_flyer.html

8 April 2004 – Managing your finances OR how to think about money.  noon-2pm, Texas Union Eastwoods Room (2.102).  FREE.  http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/forms/finances.html

Ongoing – Workshops on writing for undergraduates.  Topics include Introduction to College Writing, Writing Process, Research Papers, Tips for Writing Concisely, Brainstorming, Personal Statements, and Resumes and Cover Letters.  Offered by Undergraduate Writing Center.  FREE.  http://uwc.fac.utexas.edu/pages/faculty/workshops.html

Ongoing – Graduate Writing Project.  FREE.  http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/grs/gwp/index.html

Ongoing – Graduate Student Writing Service.  FREE.  http://www.utexas.edu/student/utlc/tap/geninfo.html

Ongoing – UT Dissertation Listserver.  FREE.  http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/rc/disslist.html

Ongoing – UT TA talk Listserver.  FREE.  http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/ta_ai/tatalk.html

Each semester – Preparing Future Faculty Internships.  FREE.  http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/forms/pff-form.html