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AN: ED51A-0115    [Abstracts]
TI: Students and Teachers Exploring Local Landscapes to Interpret the Earth from Space Application to the International Polar Year (SATELLITES-IPY Application)
AU: * Czajkowski, K
EM: kczajko@utnet.utoledo.edu
AF: Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toledo, 2801 W. Bancroft St., Toledo, OH 43606, United States
AU: Hedley, M
EM: mikell.hedley@utoledo.edu
AF: Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Toledo, 2801 W. Bancroft St., Toledo, OH 43606, United States
AU: Benko, T
EM: alohawhales@hughes.net
AF: Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toledo, 2801 W. Bancroft St., Toledo, OH 43606, United States
AB: The SATELLITES Program was established in 1999 at the University of Toledo to engage students in "real science" and introduce Earth System Science and geospatial technologies into the K-12 environment. The SATELLITES Program has now expanded to include scientists from the OhioView Remote Sensing Consortium, teachers from over 200 schools and reaches students in countries from around the world through the GLOBE program. SATELLITES is made up of four parts 1. the Observing Earth from Space Summer Institute, 2. a fall field intensive through the GLOBE program to engage students in observing their environment, 3. a spring inquiry- based application project in which the students address an environmental question using the observations that they took and that other students at other schools in the GLOBE network have taken, and 4. the SATELLITES Conference where students present their inquiry-based projects. The week-long SATELITES summer Institute introduces teachers to geospatial technologies of GIS, GPS and remote sensing. Content knowledge is built through interactions with scientists and everything is linked to the Standards. Through the field campaign, students focus on observing locally to understand the global issues of the polar regions and melting of ice and snow.
DE: 0830 Teacher training
DE: 1631 Land/atmosphere interactions (1218, 1843, 3322)
DE: 1640 Remote sensing (1855)
DE: 3310 Clouds and cloud feedbacks
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting