Title,Recipient,Competition,"Fiscal Year","Award Number","Federal Funding","Principal Investigator",State,City,County,District,Lat/Long,"Grant Dates",Abstract,Partners "Earth System Science for Elementary Teachers (ESSET)","Angelo State University","2011/2012:  ELG for Formal K-12 Education",2012,NA12SEC0080014,"$403,436","Christine Purkiss",Texas,"San Angelo","Tom Green",TX11,"31.44343, -100.46636","2012-08-01T00:00:00 - 2015-07-31T00:00:00","Angelo State University (ASU), in partnership with Texas borderlands school districts and the National Weather Service Office in San Angelo, Texas, are recipients of a NOAA Environmental Literacy Grant Priority 1 grant titled ""Earth System Sciences for Elementary Teachers"" (ESSET). This project will: 1) Increase the knowledge and skills level of 25 elementary in-service teachers regarding best practices for teaching integrated Earth System Science concepts in a learner-centered, outdoor environment; 2) Increase teachers' ability to align integrated science content with Texas standards-based curriculum and NOAA's Education Strategic Plan; and 3) Integrate concepts of environmental stewardship with teachers' newly acquired pedagogy and science content. Participants will receive nine semester-hours of ASU graduate credit, and a variety of tools and equipment for their classrooms following successful completion of this 18-month project. Anticipated results include increases in overall integrated science content knowledge, best practices, and self-efficacy for participating teachers. Scaling-up this proof-of-concept project to catalyze change across Texas will occur near the end of ESSET.","Weather Channel Headquarters, NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO), Education Service Center / Region 15, NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) San Angelo, TX Weather Forecast Office" "Ocean Interpretive Stations: A Pilot Program for Coastal America Coastal Ecosystem Learning Centers","Dubuque County Historical Society / National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium","2007: ELG for Free-choice Learning",2007,NA07SEC4690005,"$443,671","Jerry Enzler",Iowa,Dubuque,Dubuque,IA02,"42.49649, -90.66111","2007-10-01T00:00:00 - 2011-09-30T00:00:00","This project creates a pilot program to deliver ocean literacy learning opportunities to 7 million people across the country through installation of dynamic Ocean Interpretive Stations at five Coastal America Coastal Ecosystem Learning Centers: the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, CA; the J.L.Scott Marine Education Center in Ocean Springs, MS; the John G. Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, IL; the National Aquarium in Baltimore, MD; and the National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium in Dubuque, IA. These Interpretive Stations present vital messages of ocean literacy to the broad public using and expanding on a proven product in a free choice learning environment in four key sites across the country. The pilot kiosks provide the regional stories of Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic, the Great Lakes, the Mississippi River watershed and the Gulf of Mexico, and the Pacific. The Ocean Interpretive Stations enhance ocean literacy among museum goers through multimedia offerings, providing current, newsworthy and foundational ocean topics to encourage visitor learning. The project has the potential to be disseminated to 18 other Coastal Ecosystem Learning Centers throughout the United States, with the possibility of reaching over 25 million visitors. The project outcomes are: Increased awareness of ocean issues on the part of visitors; increased knowledge of regional ocean issues; increased capacity of sites to provide additional resources to teachers in the four regions; and encouragement of additional partnerships in the future.","Aquarium of the Pacific, John G. Shedd Aquarium / Shedd Aquarium, National Association for Interpretation (NAI)"