Title,Recipient,Competition,"Fiscal Year","Award Number","Federal Funding","Principal Investigator",State,City,County,District,Lat/Long,"Grant Dates",Abstract,Partners "Signals of Spring - ACES [Animals in Curriculum-bases Ecosystem Studies]","U.S. Satellite Laboratory","2006: Environmental Literacy",2006,NA06SEC4690006,"$599,862","Glen Schuster","New York",Rye,Westchester,NY16,"40.98353, -73.68647","2006-10-01T00:00:00 - 2009-09-30T00:00:00","Signals of Spring ACES (Animals in Curriculum-based Ecosystem Studies), will use NOAA remote sensing data with curriculum-based activities for middle and high school students (see http://www.signalsofspring.net/aces/). Students use Earth imagery to explain the movement of animals that are tracked by satellite with NOAA's ARGOS monitoring system. The project addresses the issues surrounding the animals and environments of NOAA's National Marine Sanctuaries (NMS). Comprehensive teacher professional development will be delivered both onsite and online for 250 teachers. The project will impact 20,000 students and parents. Ten curriculum modules will be delivered to students, accompanied with an investigation of El Nino and animals, as well as ocean life and global climate change. ACES will provide classrooms with the curricular area of conservation and the ecological issues surrounding the ocean, using marine animals as the engaging component. Students will apply NOAA Earth data to animal migrations and the critical environmental issues that face these animals that are of depleting populations. Once teachers and students have the necessary skills to interpret data, students will perform the ACES investigations.","Eureka City Schools / Eureka High School, Oakland Unified School District / Oakland High School, Oikonos Ecosystem Knowledge, Shoreline Unified School District / Tomales High School, Stanford University / Graduate School of Education, Sunnyvale School District (SSD) / Stanley B. Ellis Elementary School, Columbia University / Teachers College, Newark Public Schools District / Ann Street School, University of Washington (UW) / School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, Wheelock College (WhaleNet)" "Ocean Science - Formal and Informal Education for Ocean Literacy","Seattle Aquarium","2006: Environmental Literacy",2006,NA06SEC4690008,"$599,735","Kathleen Sider",Washington,Seattle,King,WA07,"47.60749, -122.34239","2006-09-01T00:00:00 - 2011-08-31T00:00:00","The Ocean Science project integrates the Ocean Literacy Essential Principles and Fundamental Concepts into a Western Washington region-wide, coordinated program of formal and informal education consisting of: 1. Teacher professional development in the ocean sciences to integrate the Ocean Literacy Essential Principles and Fundamental Concepts into inquiry-based marine science education and instruction; 2. Evaluation and re-alignment of existing Sound Science ecosystems curricula into Ocean Science, incorporating NOAA data and promoting the Ocean Literacy Essential Principles and Fundamental Concepts; 3. Classroom programs, beach field investigations, and on-site programs at the Seattle Aquarium of the Olympic Coast national Marine Sanctuary's Olympic Coast Discovery Center for grades 4-5 students, their parents and teachers; 4. Parent training in ocean science content, the Ocean Literacy Essential Principles and Fundamental Concepts, and inquiry-based methods for supporting their children's science education; 5. Informal education for the general public via an interactive learning station linked to the Window on Washington Waters exhibit and designed to innovatively use NOAA data and information (videos, computer simulations and other creative media) to increase and evaluate ocean literacy in adults and children. Window on Washington Waters displays the outer coast marine environments and sea life of the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary.","Highline Public Schools, Seattle Public Schools, Environmental Science Center (ESC), Feiro Marine Life Center (Feiro), Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife"