ED23C:
Demonstrations, Hands-on Activities, and Simple Measurements for Education Posters


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Session ID#: 46573

Session Description:
Presenters will share their most effective, most fun, and most interesting science demonstrations, hands-on activities, and simple measurements that help learners of any age understand concepts related to any AGU field. Activity audiences will range from general public to K-12 to undergrad. Come and try out some of the activities, too!
Primary Convener:  Robert R Downs, Columbia University of New York, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Palisades, United States
Conveners:  Lin H Chambers, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States and Michelle Nichols-Yehling, Adler Planetarium, Chicago, IL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Robert R Downs, Columbia University of New York, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Palisades, United States
Chairs:  Michelle Nichols-Yehling, Adler Planetarium, Chicago, IL, United States and Robert R Downs, Columbia University of New York, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Palisades, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Robert R Downs, Columbia University of New York, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Palisades, United States
Index Terms:

0805 Elementary and secondary education [EDUCATION]
0815 Informal education [EDUCATION]
0840 Evaluation and assessment [EDUCATION]
0845 Instructional tools [EDUCATION]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Classroom Fossil Dig: An Inexpensive Method of Creating Materials and Providing Inquiry-Based Geoscience Activities in Elementary Education (416001)
James M Danch and Kelly Aker, Woodbridge Township School District, Science, Woobridge, NJ, United States
Hands-on Spectroscopy Experiments for Advanced High School Students (420927)
Tracy Becker, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, Gregory Fletcher, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States and Cassandra R Runyon, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, United States
Hands-on Learning About the Atmosphere in the New GLOBE Weather Curriculum (421779)
John Daniel Ristvey Jr, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Lisa S Gardiner, UCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, Becca Hatheway, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, Renee Curry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Lindsey Mohan, Biological Sciences Curriculum Study, Colorado Springs, CO, United States, Lin H Chambers, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States and Tony Murphy, The GLOBE Program/UCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
GLOBE Observer: Earth Science in the Palm of Your Hand (436244)
Kristen Linn Kopp Weaver, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, United States; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Cassie Soeffing, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Arlington, United States and NASA Earth Science Education Collaborative and the GLOBE Observer team
An easy experiment to feel Coriolis force effective for all ages covering K12 (445009)
Kensuke Nakajima, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Earth Observatory for Kids - Bringing Hands-on NASA Data to Our Young Earthlings (459881)
Tassia Owen, Global Science and Technology Inc Greenbelt, NASA LAADS DAAC, Greenbelt, United States and Ginger Butcher, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., NASA Landsat Communications & Outreach, Lanham, MD, United States
Exploring Science Data with NASA’s STEM Innovation Lab: Explore, Create, Share (436479)
Troy D Cline1, Lani Sasser2 and Bryan E Stephenson2, (1)ADNET Systems Inc. Greenbelt, Heliophysics, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)ADNET Systems Inc. Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States
The DIYnamics project: making geophysical fluid dynamics demonstrations easy and affordable (422583)
Norris Chih-Min Khoo, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Spencer A Hill, UCLA AOS & Caltech GPS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Juan Manuel Lora, University of California, Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, & Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Sean Faulk, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Jonathan M Aurnou, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
Fluids in 4K (459961)
Kial Douglas Stewart, Australian National University, Research School of Earth Science, Canberra, ACT, Australia and Andrew M Hogg, Australian National University and ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, ACCESS-NRI, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Analog experiments on formation process of “Pele’s hair” and “Pele’s tears” using a cotton candy machine (463155)
Ichiro Kumagai, Meisei University, School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo, Japan and Miyuki Yamada, Tokyo Keizai University, Tokyo, Japan
Teaching statistics with Lagrangian trajectories (466685)
Inga Monika Koszalka, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Who’s Coming and What’s For Dinner: An Exercise in Dietary Analysis using Stuffed Animal Necropsies (349153)
Marianne Mcnamara, SUNY Suffolk County Community College, Selden, NY, United States
Leveraging Students’ Understanding of Sound to Teach Time Series Analysis with Interactive Demonstrations (355872)
Maximiliano Bezada, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Quantifying Plate Tectonics in the Classroom - Magnetic Anomalies, Euler Poles, and Plate Motions on a Sphere (402705)
Kevin P Furlong, Penn State Univ, University Park, United States, Matthew W Herman, California State University Bakersfield, Department of Geological Sciences, Bakersfield, CA, United States and Douglas B Rogers, Real World Globes, Visalia, CA, United States

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