Classroom Encounters Presentations
Fletcher School of Diplomacy Invites
Classroom Encounters to Host a
Workshop for History Teachers"Using Earth's Modern and Historical Climate Records to Build 21st Century Thinking and Problem Solving Skills"
Fletcher School of Diplomacy, Tufts UniversityRita Chang has been invited to be the featured teacher for the afternoon session of the "Global Politics of the Environment" Seminar at Tufts. She will be modeling a multimedia infused hands-on activity for students that uses authentic data to build thinking and problem solving skills. Video clips from Classroom Encounters will be used to introduce, illustrate key concepts, and wrap up the lesson. Professor Bill Moomaw of the Fletcher school will host one of the two morning sessions. Dr. Moomaw's session is called "21st Century Environmental Challenges and the Climate Change Debate. Dr. Kent Portnoy will also host the other morning session, Water and Air Protection Policies and Programs in U.S. Cities." Rita will be the teacher "expert" for the only afternoon session.
Global Issues Seminar Series 2008-9
"Global Politics of the Environment"
The Fletcher School, Tufts University
A Conference for Educators in Grades 6-12Click here to see the program.
Primary Source invites Classroom Encounters
Classroom Encounters presented a global studies workshop on climate change for humanities teachers. Scott Gordon showed how Vostok and Keeling data - and clips from our videos Climate Change and Our Future and Freeze, Freeze, Fry - can help students understand their changing planet. July, 2008
Tufts Wright Center for Science invites
Classroom Encounters to Glacier National ParkRita Chang was invited to Glacier National Park (as a guest of the Tufts Wright Center for Science) to share Classroom Encounters pioneering materials (innovative video of top scientists coupled with hands-on activities using real data) to show teachers a new way to bring cutting edge science, hands-on learning, and the passion and wisdom of eminent scientists into any classroom. In sharing student works and excerpts from Classroom Encounters participatory media productions (students, scientist, teacher, and filmmaker collaborated to create topic-driven media), Rita also modeled what teachers can do with 21st century communication technologies to build interest, motivate, and engage themselves and their students in a whole-person learning process. Scott Gordon, Department Head from Lynnfield High, who has been using Classroom Encounters lessons and video in his
class, joined Ms. Chang as a presenter.Click here for images from the workshop, access to supporting teaching materials, and views from a visit to Grinnell Glacier, one of the remaining 10% of the glaciers still existing at Glacier National Park.
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Classroom Encounters presents at the Massachusetts Environmental Education Society’s Annual Conference at College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA on March 5, 2008. Conference title: Energizing Environmental Education: Going Green!
Rita Chang, and Lynnfield High School Science Chair, Scott Gordon, team up for the first time at a teacher workshop: Get Connected: Team Teach with Top Scientists. Click here to go to the Teacher Forum for more information, and to read Rita’s article Climate Teacher Aha!s.
Classroom Encounters was invited to present a two-hour workshop on November 3, 2006 entitled "Unprecedented Changes, Unprecedented Challenges: Partnering with Scientists to Teach Climate Change. Classroom Encounters with Global Change Scientists." If you were an attendee, please click here to submit the evaluation for MAST.
Museum of Science Teacher Workshop on Climate Change: Rita Chang and Alan Fine have been invited
to host a workshop at the Museum of Science's Annual Weather Conference which this year will include global climate change. The title of their workshop is "Extreme Teaching Events: Tapping Passion and Modeling Excellence, Bringing World Class Scientists to Your Classroom." The workshop is on October 15, 2006.
See pictures from a special IMAX Theater presentation honoring parents and students
See the films and results for the Classroom Encounters Student Film Competition
Presenting at the Massachusetts Environmental Education Society's 2006 Conference entitled Environmental Education Crossings: Connecting Arts, Language, History, Math and Science Wednesday, March 8, 2006, Rita Chang and Alan Fine showed excerpts
from Classroom Encounters with Global Change Scientists series as a new
resource for teachers at the Massachusetts Environmental Education Society's
2006 Conference.
Workshop at the
Woods Hole Oceanographic InstituteRita Chang and Alan Fine presented excepts from Classroom Encounters, as part of their Massachusetts Marine Educator’s workshop “Rocking Their World: Connecting Global Change Scientists to Classrooms” on April 29, 2006.
Classroom Encounters presents at Green STEM Institute at the Christa McAuliffe Center on Excellence in Science Education, at Framingham State. MAST
Green STEM Institute (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)
OCT 26-27, 2007 Presenter’s Forum
The Massachusetts Association of Science Teachers (MAST) held a Green Energy STEM Institute Conference at Framingham State College, Framingham, MA. Rita Chang and Alan Fine were invited to host a workshop for teachers on how to teach global change science with experts, using Classroom Encounters DVDs and teaching resources.
Presenting at the First Annual Center for Ocean Science EducationSaturday, MARCH 4, 2006 at UMass Boston's Boston Harbor Campus, at 11:30 am, Rita Chang and Bill Moomaw from Tufts University, the first scientist featured in the Classroom Encounters with Global Change Scientists film series, co-presented a workshop at the first annual Center for Ocean Science Education Excellence -New England community conference, "Partnerships in Ocean Science Education-New England" (POSE-New England.) Their presentation topic was Ocean and Climate. It included the latest science and a hands-on activity illustrating the forces that drive the global thermohaline circulation. For more conference details, please visit www.cosee-ne.net.
