Citizen+Scientist+TC

Citizen Scientist/ Using Real-time Data //Members: Betsy Wilkening and Liesl Scheffel//

To Do over the Year: · Research areas that have Citizen Scientist Projects (Astronomy, Weather, Phenological) · Research real-time databases in our content areas to have students analyze and use. · Learn GPS technology · Learn Arc/GIS software for reporting and mapping data · Create a delicious page for sharing with other teachers / All for Education 3 hour tech coach meeting · Work on researching online · Learn GPS/GIS · Work on Delicious Tasks for next meeting · Research our science content areas for projects/databases

__Completed Tasks 10/24__ Researched real-time projects and online data sources Began to learn how Betsy's GPS units work - with thoughts to classroom applications We need to start a de.icio.us page for our projects

__Plan for January Meeting:__ Betsy will investigate energy resources Create a delicious page to share Betsy will work on Globe at Night Project Liesl will investigate climate resources Betsy will practice with GPS unit

Work on Delicious page Bring resources and research new resource for delicious page Provide a resource through delicious for other science teachers at our school/district Betsy will work on Globe at Night and Project Budburst Research FREL resources
 * __Plan for February Meeting:__**

We created a del.icio.us page of science resources for teachers to use. It can be found at [|del.icio.us/amphiscience] We hope that this site will be useful for other teachers to find content-specific resources. We have divided the tags into Earth, Physical, Life, and General Science. We have included links to projects, real-time data, and informational sites. Our next step is to advertise this to the other science teachers in the district.
 * __Accomplishments at February All-Day Meeting:__**

[|Kids Count: Young Citizen-Scientists Learn Environmental Activism] [|Real Time Data Sources] - especially look at the CIESE resources as they do a superior job.

Betsy Wilkening and Liesl Scheffel (on maternity leave)
 * __End of the Year Report__**
 * We created a del.icio.us page to create a repository of science sites that are available to teachers. At this point we are going to add more to that site and then start advertising it across the district.
 * After attending the MEC conference and working with ESRI, I learned a lot about their GIS software. I have been able to map light pollution data that my students obtained using GPS and light meters during the GLOBE at Night project. As soon as I get an article written and published in GIS Explorer with ESRI, they will grant us a site license of the software for Wilson.
 * Next year I am planning on having students expand the light pollution project and working with NOAO in conjunction with the International Year of Astronomy.
 * A school in Phoenix is doing “art”caching with GPS. Students search out and find public art on field trips. On a recent field trip to the Grand Canyon some of teachers and I looked at earthcaching that is set up through Geologic Society of America. The concept behind earthcaching is to locate the latitude and longitude of certain geological points. Next year another 7th grade science teacher and I are going to work on setting up earthcache points in Tucson area.