So Will NOAA Planet Stewards!
Scroll down to the last event for a special invitation to
NOAA Planet Stewards Educators!
Join NOAA Planet Stewards and amazing partners for workshops, at Share-A-Thons, and at social events!
NOAA Planet Stewards Official NSTA Pre-Workshop Get Together
Wednesday, March 26, 6:00 - 8:00 PM at Victory Brewing
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For many years NOAA Planet Stewards has held an after hours informal social gathering the evening before the NSTA National Conference, and we'd like you to join us! Meet NOAA Planet Stewards educators and valued NOAA partners from around the country - and anyone else who would like to connect with the NOAA Planet Stewards. Meet colleagues, maybe some old friends, and definitely make new ones!
NOAA Planet Stewards Supported
Workshops & Presentations
Thursday, March 27, 2025
NOAA workshop - Use Games and Role Playing to Engage Students in One of the Most Dangerous Climate Impacts of Our Time: Sea Level Rise
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM • Pennsylvania Convention Center: Terrace Ballroom III
Why are sea levels rising? Why is it so dangerous - no matter where in the US you live? How can we address it? Using hands-on role-playing activities from NOAA, engage your students on one of the most dangerous climate impacts of our time.
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NOAA workshop - Explore National Ocean Service (NOS) Education Resources for Your Classroom
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM • Pennsylvania Convention Center: Terrace Ballroom III
Dive into a sea of classroom-ready resources! With standards-aligned teaching materials, tutorials, hands-on activities, Professional Development, and funding opportunities up to $5,000, NOS Education supports ocean, coastal, and climate learning at ALL levels and engages students and communities in hands-on stewardship.
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Meet Me In The Middle Share-A-Thon - Explore classroom ready, NGSS aligned, Earth science resources from NOAA Ocean Service Education
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM • Pennsylvania Convention Center - Exhibit Hall, Poster Session Aisle
NOAA Ocean Service Education offers classroom ready, standards aligned ocean, coastal, Earth, and climate science resources for teachers to immediately plug into existing curriculum, as well as opportunities to receive up to $5000 in funding to develop and carry out stewardship projects in their school or community.
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NOAA workshop - NOAA Planet Stewards: Affect change through education, collaboration, and action - and receive up to $5000 to do it!
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM • Pennsylvania Convention Center: Terrace Ballroom III
NOAA Planet Stewards Educators are STEM agents of change in their schools and communities. Access professional development opportunities, education resources, and FUNDING up to $5000, to increase students’ science literacy, and have them respond to real world environmental threats. Appropriate for Grades K-12!
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NOAA workshop - Explore the Ocean, Weather, Climate Connections with Teek & Tom, NOAA’s New Animated Series and Lesson Plans
9:20 AM - 10:20 AM • Pennsylvania Convention Center: Terrace Ballroom III
Teek and Tom Explore Planet Earth investigates the relationship between the ocean, weather and climate on local to global scales. You’ll sample some of the ten hands-on activities for upper ES and MS students to reinforce Earth science concepts related to oceanography, meteorology and climate.
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Hands-on workshop - Let’s Talk Trash! Next Generation Marine Debris Education with the NOAA Marine Debris Program
9:20 AM - 10:20 AM • Pennsylvania Convention Center: Room 121 B
The NOAA Marine Debris Program has resources for students to learn about marine pollution and how they can be a part of the solution! We will share standards-aligned, hands-on, and place-based materials and strategies to help engage and inspire youth to learn and take action on marine pollution.
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NOAA/NESTA workshop - Discover Your Changing World with Innovative Tools from NOAA
10:40 AM - 11:40 AM • Pennsylvania Convention Center: Terrace Ballroom III
Join the National Earth Science Teachers Association to explore NOAA's resources and dive into interactive, data-rich investigations. Engage students in exploring human impacts on terrestrial and ocean ecosystems, environmental changes, and pathways to informed decision-making.
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NMEA Whale of a Share-A-Thon - Explore classroom ready, NGSS aligned, ocean, coastal, Earth, and climate science education resources from NOAA Ocean Service Education.
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM • Pennsylvania Convention Center - Exhibit Hall, Poster Session Aisle
NOAA Ocean Service Education offers classroom ready, standards aligned ocean, coastal, Earth, and climate science resources for teachers to immediately plug into existing curriculum, as well as opportunities to receive up to $5000 in funding to develop and carry out stewardship projects in their community.
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Presentation - Marine Debris Communications Lab: Support Youth to Go From Raising Awareness to Inspiring Action with NOAA
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM • Pennsylvania Convention Center: Room 121 C
It can be challenging to communicate information on pressing environmental issues like marine pollution without losing hope. Support inspiring, energizing education on marine pollution through science, art, math, and the humanities with resources and strategies from the NOAA Marine Debris Program.
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NESTA Friends of Earth Science Reception
(...and NOAA Planet Stewards Recognition Ceremony!)
Friday, March 28, 6:30 - 8:00 PM at
1116 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19107
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This event will be for NESTA (National Earth Science Teachers Association) Friends of Earth Science to gather after hours, socialize, and celebrate the individuals who have contributed to NESTA as an organization, and have made significant contributions to Earth science education.
There will be a special recognition ceremony for
NOAA Planet Stewards Educators at the reception!
If you are now or have ever been a NOAA Planet Stewards educator (or a NOAA Climate Stewards educator - you know who you are), and will be attending NSTA, you are invited to this reception. We want to recognize you for making a significant contribution to Earth science education and stewardship in your community.
To receive this recognition you MUST email Missy.Holzer@gmail.com by 5:00 pm ET Friday, March 21, 2025, RSVP your attendance, and download, complete and submit this media release form to her.
We can't wait to meet you at NSTA!
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