Opportunity For Beginning Teachers -- Pass This Along

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From: Linda Shore (lindas@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 02 2001 - 09:13:20 PST 

Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 09:13:20 -0800
From: Linda Shore <lindas@exploratorium.edu>
Subject: Opportunity For Beginning Teachers -- Pass This Along
Message-id: <3A9FD4B0.2FA32F6F@exploratorium.edu>

Hi Everyone -- If you are not planning on attending a summer institute
at the Exploratorium this summer OR know of a beginning teacher in your
school who might be interested in this opportunity, please pass this
along...

TO: Beginning Middle and High School Science Teachers
FROM: NASA's Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum and San Francisco
State
University
SUBJECT: A paid, two-week professional development opportunity this
summer

Would you like to:
-explore sun-earth astronomy teaching resources?
-earn a $1000 stipend for two weeks of effort?
-have a "front row seat" for the June 21 total solar eclipse?
-interact collaboratively with professional astronomers?

INTERESTED? Please come to a planning meeting with potential
participants.
This meeting will help to frame the particulars of our NASA-funded
professional development opportunity being planned for June, 2001. Your

input is desired and needed! The planning meeting will be held:

WHEN: Friday, March 16, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m., followed by optional
telescope
and IMAX film opportunities.
WHERE: The new Chabot Space and Science Center, 10000 Skyline Blvd.,
Oakland, CA. (See description and directions at
http://www.chabotspace.org.) Please use the front entrance and go to
the
Teacher Research Center.
ELIGIBILITY: First or second year teachers or student teachers who
include
astronomy in their curriculum. Program participants may be currently
enrolled in a teaching credential program or already have a credential.

Additional Incentives: free parking, free admission, free food and
beverages, free telescope viewing, and free tickets for the 7:30 viewing
of
the IMAX film "Solarmax."

RSVP BY MARCH 12: We need to know in advance how much food and how many

tickets to order. Please reply to either -
kaosul@sfsu.edu (Prof. Kathleen O'Sullivan, San Francisco State
University) or
schultz@ssl.berkeley.edu (Dr. Greg Schultz, Space Sciences Laboratory,
UC
Berkeley)

More information about NASA's Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum can
be
found at http://sunearth.ssl.berkeley.edu

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