Connecting Kids to the Sun-Earth
Connection:
ISTP Workshop '98
This year's teacher workshop brought to you by
the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics program, Connecting Kids to
the Sun-Earth Connection, took place over three fun- and education-filled
days in July 1998. Participants learned about the Sun, the Earth,
and the geospace in between. This site is aimed at workshop
participants, to make materials used available for classroom purposes and
to facilitate the extension of workshop ideas into daily teaching.
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Pictures from Workshop '98
Smile! You're on Workshop '98 Camera
on this page. Watch as your new friends work through activities, learn,
and have fun.
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Presentations from the workshop
See once again the material presented
by ISTP scientists and special guests. Visual aids and, in some cases,
text are offered in both HTML and PDF (Adobe Acrobat portable document
format) versions. These are the pretty pictures all of you asked
for!
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Links to education materials discussed in the
workshop
This page links to both the activities
and programs such as Solarscapes that were discussed as a group and the
sites for education in science and astronomy that some participants requested.
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Links to learn more
On this page, hyperlinked, is the
list of sites given at the workshop that are useful for further information.
You can learn more about ISTP, the Sun, the aurora, and space weather.
Happy reading!
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Communicate
Links to three pages here:
participants (teachers), presenters/facilitators, and the various ask-the-scientist
pages which might be useful for the classroom.
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Evaluate the workshop
Please fill out our handy evaluation
forms if you've used workshop materials
or used workshop tutorials; also, the
ISTP Workshop Electronic
Evaluation is available and needs your input.
Feedback will help us make these resources even more useful.
Also, you can see
what participants thought about the workshop, activity by activity.
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Updates and news
Here you can view the fruits of
your labor: teachers' ideas for activities, possible reunion information,
and new and interesting sites and information which apply to you.
- Information on the 1998 IDEAS Grant Program
**HOT**
Do you have an idea for an educational program or product?
Would you like to receive government funding to develop that idea?
The Initiative to Develop Education through Astronomy and Space Science (IDEAS)
grant program funds partnerships between space scientists and educators.
Perhaps we can submit a proposal together . . .
Besides trying the Communicate page, where you can
take your pick of people to write to, we would appreciate it if you would
write to us in general
with your comments and feedback about Workshop '98, your ideas for further
outreach, and your suggestions for future conferences such as ours.
Thank you!
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