Title,Recipient,Competition,"Fiscal Year","Award Number","Federal Funding","Principal Investigator",State,City,County,District,Lat/Long,"Grant Dates",Abstract,Partners "National Model Earth Science Lab Course","Technical Education Research Centers / TERC","2005: Environmental Literacy",2005,NA05SEC4691004,"$497,029","Daniel Barstow",Massachusetts,Cambridge,Middlesex,MA05,"42.39156, -71.123","2005-09-01T00:00:00 - 2008-08-31T00:00:00","A collaboration of five key states, an array of scientists and educators, and an experienced science curriculum team will develop and establish a National Model Earth Science Lab Course, providing standards and exemplary activities that will reach hundreds of thousands of students annually. The team will create a lab handbook with guidelines and exemplary activities in Earth system science and environmental literacy. All materials will be published on the web and available for free to teachers and students. The initial set of four exemplary labs will engage students in field experiences, classroom experiments and active use of data and computer visualizations dealing with oceans, atmosphere and other NOAA domains. These hands-on learning experiences will help students develop environmental literacy, build deep understandings of Earth as a system, and apply scientific thinking, problem-solving and data analysis. The participating states view this as filling a crucial gap in the approval and implementation of Earth science as a standard high school lab science. This project builds on planning done in a series of projects: National Conference on the Revolution in Earth Science Education, State Alliances for Earth Science Education, and Planning Grant for Earth System Science as a High School Lab Science. This National Model responds directly to essential needs expressed by the states. The labs will comply with national and state standards for Earth science and meet requirements for a true lab science course. This project is bold and ambitious, but also essential for states striving to strengthen their high school Earth science offerings, and it is a practical response to NOAA's need to infuse its resources into the fabric of public Earth science education.","Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Science Education Resource Center (SERC) / Carleton College, Texas Education Agency, Massachusetts Association of Science Supervisors, New York City (NYC) Department of Education (DOE), U.S. Geological Survey Headquarters" "Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Program","Triangle Coalition for Science and Technology Education","2010: Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship",2010,NA10SEC0080036,"$591,721","Vance Ablott",Virginia,Arlington,Arlington,VA08,"38.89273, -77.08059","2010-08-01T00:00:00 - 2015-08-31T00:00:00","The Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Program was enacted by Congress and is administered by the Department of Energy-Office of Science and managed by the Triangle Coalition for Science and Technology Education. Participation includes the Department of Energy (DOE), NASA, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The program provides an opportunity for current public or private elementary and secondary mathematics, technology, and science classroom teachers with demonstrated excellence in teaching an opportunity to serve in the national public policy arena. This proposal seeks funds to place Einstein Fellows at NOAA over the five-year period 2010-2015. The NOAA Einstein Fellows will support NOAA's education vision of an environmentally literate public and a diverse workforce who will use NOAA's products and services to make informed decisions that enable responsible action. The Fellows provide practical insight in establishing and operating education programs and they provide ""real world"" perspectives to program managers developing or managing education programs.","Museum of Science Boston"