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ARM Educational Outreach Puts Fun Twist on Science Night
Community STEM Event Draws Big Crowds Laura Riihimaki intrigues students with monsoon activity during science night. In November, ARM communications staff and scientists participated in the 6th annual Chief Joseph Middle School Science Night in Richland, Washington. Hundreds of students, parents, and educators turned out for the popular community event, which is free and open…
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Conversational Climate Change
Doug Sisterson In order to help their fellow scientists and the general public have science-based conversations with their families and communities about climate change, Doug Sisterson, a long time ARM Climate Research Facility team member, and his colleague, Seth Darling, have written a short book that takes a humorous, conversational style approach to the often hyper-technical…
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ARM Educational Outreach Celebrates Earth Science Week 2014
This week, Professor Polar Bear and the Climate Kids are traveling around the U.S. to promote Earth Science Week. ARM Educational Outreach was invited to contribute educational materials for tool kits that will be distributed to teachers at the American Geosciences Institute (AGI)’s 2014 Earth Science Week. The annual event, which takes place October 12-18,…
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ARM’s Educational Outreach Recognized
Resources selected by the Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN) must pass an extensive peer-review process to verify the accuracy and relevance of the science. ARM’s lesson plan, “Thermal Expansion of Water” has been selected for inclusion in the Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network’s (CLEAN) collection of educational resources. The CLEAN efforts are…
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Young Minds Blossom During Spring STEM Events
The latest addition to the ARM education materials includes a cloud version of the childhood memory match game.Earth Day 2014 is today, Tuesday, April 22. When Earth Day began in 1970, Senator Gaylord Nelson’s goal was to pay tribute to the environment in which we live. Since then, Earth Day has become recognized around the…
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Junior Rangers Enjoy Science Education at ARM Facility on Cape Cod
Children and adults join in the balloon launch countdown at the ARM Mobile Facility site at Cape Cod National Seashore. Weather balloons are launched at regular intervals four times per day throughout the one-year campaign. School break means vacation, and around Cape Cod, that often means a trip to the seashore. On April 17, families…
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A Twist on TwisterTM: ARM Educational Outreach Participates in Community Science Nights
This week, the U.S. Department of Energy begins its National Science Bowl competition, a nationwide academic competition that tests students’ knowledge in all areas of science. Created 22 years ago in 1991, the DOE National Science Bowl strives to encourage students to excel in mathematics and science and to pursue careers in these fields and…
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Education Collaboration Provides Motivation for Science Exploration
Kids and adults flock to Cape Cod National Seashore for close-up look at science facility Cathy Skowron (far left), ARM Ranger, describes a weather balloon launch to visitors from the Carroll Center for the Blind during a tour of the ARM Mobile Facility site at Cape Cod National Seashore. Barbara Dougan, education specialist at the…
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ARM Education Receives Seal of Approval
ARM’s lesson plan, “Effects of Solar Radiation on Land and Sea” was recently selected for inclusion in the NSF-funded Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network’s (CLEAN) collection of educational resources. Receipt of the prestigious CLEAN seal means that the selected resource passed an extensive peer-review by educators and scientists to ensure adherence to stringent Climate…
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Science Lesson Starts in the Yard
Madie Houdeshell and David Breedlove each hold a weather balloon data transmitter called a radiosonde.What began with the discovery of an interesting “white thing” in Madie Houdeshell’s yard led to a science assembly for fourth and fifth grade students at Udall Elementary School in Kansas. They learned all about weather balloons, why they are used,…