Title,Recipient,Competition,"Fiscal Year","Award Number","Federal Funding","Principal Investigator",State,City,County,District,Lat/Long,"Grant Dates",Abstract,Partners "Engaging ESL Adult and Youth Learners in Technologically Facilitated Outdoor Experiential Learning to Improve Environmental, Ocean, Climate and English Literacy","Literacy Volunteers America of Monroe County","2010: ELG for Informal/Nonformal Education",2010,NA10SEC0080025,"$203,454","Mary Casanova",Florida,"Key West",Monroe,FL28,"24.55448, -81.78707","2010-10-01T00:00:00 - 2012-09-30T00:00:00","Literacy Volunteers America of Monroe County and The College of Exploration are developing and implementing a pilot project to target traditionally under-represented ethnic groups who are limited English proficient – many reading and writing in English at the grade 0 - grade 5.5 level. The project goals are for learners of English as a Second Language (ESL) to use digital photo cameras, digital video cameras, waterproof underwater HD cameras and GPS technologies to geo-locate, explore, observe, record, display and tell stories in English both in words, photos and short HD video clip sequences. Stories will be about the exploration of places like the National Marine Sanctuaries and other areas of the country and coasts where there are scientific observation and monitoring opportunities created and supported by NOAA partners.","College of Exploration, Cooke Communications Florida, LLC., ProLiteracy, Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF), Pigeon Key Foundation, Volunteers for Adult Literacy in Florida (VALF)" "Science on a Sphere – Earth Systems Display Center at Science Museum of Virginia","Science Museum of Virginia","2010: ELG for Informal/Nonformal Education",2010,NA10SEC0080023,"$297,396","Richard Conti",Virginia,Richmond,"Richmond City",VA04,"37.56145, -77.46565","2010-10-01T00:00:00 - 2012-09-30T00:00:00","The Science Museum of Virginia has assembled a unique team of federal, state, and private institutions to create The Earth System Display Center based on the Science on a Sphere (SOS) platform. The goal of the Center is to capture the visitor's attention and spur interest in climate change literacy and how impacts on a local scale can have an aggregate effect globally. Of particular significance are a docent training program to stimulate and facilitate visitor interaction with the Sphere through dialogue, and formative and summative evaluation of the impact of docent led Sphere experiences with the general public. SOS will anchor a new data display center for examining global impacts of energy consumption, stormwater management, agriculture practices, and climate change - tying together Earth system themes from four major projects now underway at the Science Museum in Richmond, Virginia. Use of NOAA data sets and the Sphere as a dynamic presentation tools coupled with flatscreens will enable the conveyance of local and statewide trends and issues into a compelling global context.","University of Wisconsin–Madison / Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS), George Mason University / Center for Climate Change Communication (4C), James Madison University, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Virginia State University (VSU)"