Happy Teacher Appreciation Week, May 5-12th!

“I love working with teachers because they provide safe spaces for students to take risks, literally and figuratively, in the pursuit of scientific understanding and stewardship.”

     — Molly Harrison, NOAA Planet Stewards Co-coordinator
                                             See the NOAA Teacher Appreciation article here.

May's Upcoming Planet Stewards Webinar

May Webinar May 13, 2019 - Hurricanes & Robots: How New Technology is Changing the Way We Study and Predict Extreme Storms Hurricanes are one of the deadliest and costliest natural disasters in the world. Our ability to predict where storms will make landfall has improved steadily, but it is still a challenge to predict a storms intensity or strength. Robots patrolling our coastal oceans are providing new opportunities to improve hurricane intensity forecasts and inform better response plans. In this talk you’ll learn how these heroic robots swim and survive into the eye of the storm to keep us safe. Space is limited!

Make a Date with Data May 11th in

Oxford, Maryland from 10-3pm

NOAA, The Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, and Delaware Sea Grant invite middle school, high school, and field-based educators to come to the Cooperative Oxford Lab, in sunny Oxford MD (well sometimes) for a one-day professional learning opportunity. Act fast! Register here >

Great Outdoors Live Webinars this September

• Watch a pre-taped video, “Great Outdoors LIVE: From Backyard to Backcountry,” that will be webstreamed and available beginning September1st and  2nd, 2019.

• On September 25, 2019, participate in a LIVE, INTERACTIVE webcast and send in your questions about public lands for scientists and others to answer. We’ll be coming to you LIVE from Shoshone National Forest – the first national forest in the United States – located near Cody, Wyoming and Yellowstone National Park. Find out more here.

2019 ESIP Summer Meeting July 16-19

Data to Action: Increasing the Use and Value of Earth Science Data and Information.  

For 20 years, Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) have brought together the most innovative thinkers and leaders in Earth observation data, forming a community dedicated to making Earth observations more discoverable, accessible and useful to researchers, practitioners, policymakers, educators and the public. Participants will learn how to put data in action in the classroom through using Jupyter Notebooks and other Earth science tools. Registration for teachers is $50. Teachers attending the Teacher Workshop will be refunded the registration fee after attending the meeting plus a stipend of $200. A full refund will be given for all registration types until June 10th. Register here.

The Journal of Geoscience Education is soliciting manuscripts for a special issue on polar education. The following types of papers are being solicited for this issue:

• Research Papers that describe the methods and results of original studies focused on all aspects of polar education.
• Curriculum and Instruction Papers that describe new teaching materials or methods and provide evidence for their effectiveness.
• Commentaries that are grounded in the literature and provide a critical or alternative viewpoint on a key issue or provide insight into an important development in polar education that is of broad interest to geoscience educators or researchers.
• Literature Reviews that synthesize and evaluate the published literature on a polar education topic within geoscience education research or practice.

The manuscript submission deadline is June 15, 2018. For information, including author instructions, please visit here.

The Gulf of Maine Marine Education Association is proud to host the National Marine Educators Association National Conference, July 21-25, 2019 at the University of New Hampshire campus in Durham, NH. Our mission is to make known the world of water both fresh and salt, and our annual conference brings together formal and informal marine educators from around the world to promote awareness and education of the global marine environment. The conference draws 300-500 professionals from K-12 schools, public aquariums, non-profit NGOs, and government agencies together for four days of learning, sharing, and networking. Bring your family and get back to nature! There are several family-friendly conference events and field trips, and SO MUCH to explore in New Hampshire and Maine! Hope to see you there! For more information and to register >

The World Oceans Day Youth Advisory Council has released 5 new guides and toolkits to help you take action on plastic pollution during World Oceans Day and throughout the year. The new resources include:

• Guide to Talking about Ocean Plastic Pollution
• Plog for the Ocean Toolkit
• Coastal and Inland Cleanup Guide
• Plastic Pollution Lesson and Action Plan
• Upcycling Guidebook

WorldOceansDay.org also has a variety of promotional materials, resources for youth and more available for download

Renewable Energy Curriculum from Climate Generation

Innovation and Renewable Energy: A Humanities Module is a standards-based, interdisciplinary humanities module that uses the true story of William Kamkwamba — from The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by Bryan Mealer — to bring the discussion of renewable energy to the English Language Arts, social studies, and science classroom. You can download this new resource for free from the Climate Generation website! Also, check out the new Netflix original movie that just came out on March 1st!

The Aquarium of the Pacific produced Straw Cops, a parody “preview” video for a buddy cop movie starring Seymour Shark and Captain Quinn, two of the Aquarium’s beloved Pacific Pals characters. Straw Cops follows our heroes as they take on a gang of nefarious plastic bootleggers trying to spread single-use straws and environmental devastation. Fortunately, Seymour and Captain Quinn are able to reform the plastic purveyors and help the public choose better alternatives. You can help spread Straw Cops by sharing any of the following links, or tagging your friends on the Aquarium’s posts: on Facebook, on YouTube, on Twitter, and on Instragram.