I signed onto an organization called 350.org. According to materials I received, 350.org is sponsoring climate change actions around the world. The banner will take you to the 350.org site for further details about how you and your students might get involved. Receiving this information is perfect timing for post later this week about Australian scientist’s actions toward boldly confronting the world’s climate deniers. 350.org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the...
The Great Migrations Blog Carnival: Part II Minjae Ormes, of National Geographic Channel, sent me this text that announces further the NatGeo’s Great Migrations program that premiered last week. As Minjae notes, a group of science bloggers wrote about the program on their blogs. The Art of Teaching Science was among this group. Here is Menjae’s post on the Inside NGC Blog. As you know, on the eve of Great Migrations premiere last Sunday,...
I recently received an announcement of an ecology program from John Kamman whose organization sponsors field science and cultural exchange projects. The organization is Ecology Project International and has projects and programs in Montana, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Galapagos. Their website describes many opportunities for students and teachers in the field of ecology and environmental education. The email couldn’t have been more relevant given the Gulf Oil Spill disaster is wrecking havoc on the...
I’ve been in England for the past two weeks, and will be writing a few posts about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill reporting on the views of this catastrophe from the U.K.
As we all know, President Obama told the story that his daughter knocked on the bathroom door while he was shaving, and asked him, “Have you plugged the hole yet, Daddy?” As science teachers we are reminded that this question is the kind of question our youth asks about important issues that face us today. In today’s post on the New York Times, Thomas Friedman uses Malia’s comment suggest that this is the time...
As of today, no one really knows how much oil has leaked into the Gulf of Mexico threatening the entire Gulf Coast Region, and possibly Florida and the East Coast. NOAA is using an estimate of 210,000 gallons of oil per day (5,000 barrels), but in a closed door meeting with members of Congress, BP administrators said that the amount could be as high as 60,000 barrels per day, ten times NOAA’s estimate. PBS...
In 1987 I met Sergey Tolstikov, who at the time was the lead English teacher at Moscow Experimental Gymnasium 710. Sergey, along with many of his colleagues at School 710, and other schools in Moscow, St. Petersburg (Leningrad at the time), Pushchino, Yasoslav, and Chelyabinsk teamed up with American teachers to create the Global Thinking Project, a hands-across the global environmental science and education program. Over the years we supported exchanges of secondary school...
