Indulge yourself at a time of your own choosing in the many archived webinars on the Planet Stewards website. Start with John Cook, author of the acclaimed Skeptical Science website and the webinar at left, "How teachers can turn misinformation into educational opportunities."

THREE: NOAA Marine Debris Art Contest

 All K-8 grade students in the US and US territories should grab their art supplies! 

Help the NOAA Marine Debris program raise awareness about marine debris by creatively designing art that answers: How does marine debris impact the Ocean and Great Lakes? What are you doing to help prevent marine debris?

Winning entries will be featured in the NOAA Marine Debris program 2021 Calendar!  Hurry - the contest is open until November 30th! Find out more and join the fun.

The Science Communication Fellowship immerses formal and informal educators in the Nautilus Corps of Exploration and empowers them to bring ocean exploration to a global audience via the Nautilus Live website and live sessions from aboard the ship. Science Communication Fellows then bring their expedition experience back to their classrooms, organizations, and communities centered around their time at sea. Applications are open now! Learn more and apply before January 10, 2020.

Apply to participate in the 2019-2020 Northrop Grumman Foundation Teachers Academy. The premier professional learning program for middle school teachers was created to help enhance teacher confidence and classroom excellence in STEM, while increasing teacher understanding about the skills needed for a scientifically literate workforce. Administered by the National Science Teaching Association, this year the Academy will support up to 32 public school district teachers in select communities where Northrop Grumman operates in the U.S.

Empowered STEM uses Earth Force’s award winning Community Action and Problem-Solving Process to transform classrooms into engaged learning environments for young people. Empowered STEM is like project-based learning with one two important differences. First, students participating are tackling the big challenges facing their communities from equity to climate change. Second, students participating develop solutions in partnership with stakeholders and implement them in the communities where they live and work.For more information about the project take a look at the new Empowered STEM website.

Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs invites students ages 11-18 from around the world to create works of visual art, film, music, poetry, prose, or multimedia that explores climate change and impact on the ocean, and imagines solutions at personal, local, national, or global scales. Students may earn scholarship awards of up to $1,500. For more information and classroom resources, visit the program website.

K-12 students from the United States and Canada are invited to participate in a recycling contest by creating a video or a poster that imagines what recycling will look like in 50, 75, or even 100 years from now by designing a solution to a current problem. You could win a trip to the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries’ 2020 Annual Convention and Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada!. Register to participate or learn more here. All entries must be submitted by December 20, 2019.

The ocean represent the final frontier on Earth for explorations. Here we will discuss the technology, from sonars to advanced robots, needed to explore the deepest reaches of our ocean and along the way we will get to meet some of the strange creatures that inhabitants the largest biome on the planet. View the archived video here and/or view the presentation slides from the web seminar and related resources, visit the resource collection.

The self-paced online workshop (approximately 3 hours) includes 6 courses (each a 20–30-minute learning experience), video demonstrations of select PLT activities, and lesson planning exercises to help you plan how to facilitate activities with your students in your own setting-certificate of completion. Continuing education credits and state-specific supplemental resources are offered in some states. Register here.

A one-week curriculum for middle and high-school students called Resisting Scientific Misinformation prepares students to assess an author’s credibility, analyze an article’s purpose, and evaluate its claims. Students are also introduced to well-established institutions such as the US Centers for Disease Control and the Intergovern-mental Panel on Climate Change. Having a list of reliable sources to turn to can help everyone, student or not, cut through the fog more easily. The lesson materials and a teacher guide are available for free. The vision of Tumblehome who created the resources is to inspire kids to envision themselves as scientists and engineers through the power of story.

The Great Outdoors LIVE distance learning adventures are now available as streaming videos, and you can watch anytime at: Watch "Great Outdoors LIVE: A Distance Learning Adventure" – a 54-minute program from Shoshone National Forest, the first national forest in the U.S., which is also a part of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Also watch "Great Outdoors LIVE: Yours to Explore." In this 32-minute video, journey from the backyard to the back country as we explore the value, importance, and beauty of public lands.