Title,Recipient,Competition,"Fiscal Year","Award Number","Federal Funding","Principal Investigator",State,City,County,District,Lat/Long,"Grant Dates",Abstract,Partners "Sailing Elementary Teachers Towards Ocean Literacy Using Familiar Water Resources","Eastern Michigan University","2007: ELG for Formal K-12 Education",2007,NA07SEC4690004,"$461,534","Sandra Rutherford",Michigan,Ypsilanti,Washtenaw,MI06,"42.25068, -83.62409","2007-10-01T00:00:00 - 2012-09-30T00:00:00","This project plans to increase elementary and undergraduate ocean science and related Great Lakes science literacy that aligns with the Michigan Curriculum, the national science standards, and the Ocean Literacy Essential Principles and Fundamental Concepts. We will 1) develop an elementary storybook and other elementary classroom materials that support ocean and Great Lakes literacy, 2) train pre-service elementary teachers to use this Storybook, 3) develop undergraduate activities that support the NOAA Education Plan and Ocean Literacy in teacher education courses at Eastern Michigan University (EMU), and 4) train teachers in Detroit and Dexter (MI) and Golden (CO) to use an elementary storybook and related activities that support Ocean Literacy. The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and oceanographic experts at EMU and the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) will partner with us to develop the elementary storybook. This elementary resource will be freely available to all teachers, via the internet (see http://www.windows2universe.org/teacher_resources/ocean_education/curre…). Our second objective is that teachers will relate ocean and Great Lakes science to theirs and their students' lives. We will accomplish this by 1) producing teacher-friendly web resources that make Great Lakes data from GLERL accessible for use by elementary teachers and 2) teaching pre-service teachers to interpret these data during undergraduate, inquiry activities at EMU. Our third objective is to measure environmental, ocean and Great Lakes literacy among pre-service teachers and their students before and after implementation of targeted instruction. We will accomplish this via 1) assessing pre- and in-service teachers' content knowledge and ability to apply content knowledge in ocean and Great Lakes science, 2) assessing elementary children for content knowledge and ability to apply content knowledge in ocean and Great Lakes science, 3) performance assessments of pre- and in-service teachers' abilities to interpret environmental data, 4) standardized tests of Earth Science content knowledge, and 5) surveys of pre- and in-service teachers' attitudes towards ocean literacy and supporting materials.","University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) Center for Science Education, City University of New York (CUNY) / Hunter College" "GLOBE Program","University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) Center for Science Education","2010: Support for GLOBE Program Office Activities",2010,NA10SEC4690010,"$2,399,000","Valerie Williams",Colorado,Boulder,Boulder,CO02,"40.03115, -105.24605","2010-09-01T00:00:00 - 2012-08-31T00:00:00","In the project entitled ""The GLOBE Program 2010: Collaborative Environmental Research at Local to Global Scales"", the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) will improve the functionality of the GLOBE Program (www.globe.gov) by providing: (1) new methods, tools, and services to enhance GLOBE Partner and teacher abilities to facilitate inquiry-based learning and student research, (2) initial pilot testing and assessment of student and teacher learning activities and events related to Climate Science research, (3) improvements in GLOBE's technology infrastructure and data systems (e.g. database, social networking, information management) to support collaborations between students, scientists, and teachers, and (4) development of a robust evaluation plan. In addition, the UCAR will continue to provide support to the worldwide GLOBE community, as well as program management and timely communication with program sponsors.","Arizona State University (ASU) Phoenix, South Dakota Game Fish and Parks, Texas State Aquarium, Florida State University, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters, National Science Foundation (NSF) Headquarters, University of Missouri–St. Louis, University of Nevada-Reno, University of Tulsa (UT)"