3 from Library Journal
3 from NSTA
1 from the American Library Association
4 from the School Library Journal
and many, many more.
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page.
An Inconvenient
Truth's
Laurie David meets Rita and students! 
Laurie David, a producer of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth
with Rita
Chang and two of her students.
There was a private "meet and greet" gathering for Ms.
Laurie David, a producer of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth
at MassBay Community College. Ms. Chang, two of her students, and
Ms. Mirkin, Principal of Wellesley High were invited to join College
President, Provost, Deans, and several members of the faculty at
a screening of the film. The private meeting set off sparks between
everyone in the room so hopefully more good things will come from
this "encounter." (The Classroom Encounters DVDs were
also a hit!) Talk is ongoing about how Classroom Encounters, Wellesley
High, and Mass Bay might creatively work together to further climate
change education.
Click
here to read our Boston Globe article
Excerpt: "Daniel Schrag , a Harvard geochemist
who appears in the series, applauded Chang's vision. `'Typically
things that are new ideas in science or new observations take decades
before they are taught at the high school level. . . . Really good
teachers change that,' said Schrag, who directs the Harvard University
Center for the Environment."
Please
Donate to Fractured Atlas to Support Classroom Encounters’ 2008-2009
Initiatives
1) Teacher Guide
We’re now developing lesson plans to show teachers
how to add media to hands-on inquiry activities, labs, and lessons
to grab attention, illustrate, wrap up, or show how scientists gather
the data they are using, apply the concept in the real world, or problem
solve.
Classroom Encounters brings together teachers and curriculum
experts to develop cross-curricula teaching guides and lesson plans
with fitted video clips to teach the standards. The lessons are
aligned with state and national teaching frameworks and help teachers
learn how to use Classroom Encounters’ to teach content.
Our goal is to help teachers connect their classrooms to current
research, to introduce students to new and inspiring role models
of scientists and young people, to model inquiry, show how scientists
tackle real world challenges, and find new ways to present, learn,
teach, and communicate science. Click
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2) New DVD: Hurricanes and Climate
We are also editing footage and creating the media
for our next DVD, featuring Kerry Emanuel of MIT, a world authority
on hurricanes and climate. Click
here if you would like to donate to this initiative.
Classroom Encounters is a sponsored program of Fractured Atlas,
a 501c3 non-profit arts-service organization in New York. Donations
to Fractured Atlas, in behalf of Classroom Encounters, are tax deductible
to the extent permitted by law.
Wellesley Cable T.V. Interviewed Rita Chang
for Cable News Show!
Also interviewed were Ms. Chang's students on what impact the series
has had on them, and how they have been involved with Global Change
before and after exposure to the series. The interviews were shown
with the broadcasting of the first two DVDs in the series.
Excerpts
from recent Classroom Encounters considered for the Museum
of Science Exhibit Floor
The Museum
of Science’s Science and Technology Forum continues to be an
enthusiastic supporter of Classroom Encounters and has proposed
the showing film clips from the Classroom Encounters series
interspersed with Nova segments on a plasma screen on the floor of
the exhibit hall.
Classroom
Encounters To Lauch a Fund Raiser Campaign Summer 2008
Now that Classroom
Encounters LLC is a sponsored program of the non-profit arts-supporting
organization, Fractured Atlas, it's possible for us to launch a fund
raising campaign. Both the Wellesley Education Foundation and The
Wellesley High School Parent Teachers Students Organization, through
the Crockett Fund, provided some seed funding in the fall to help
bring two more scientists to Wellesley High School. Funds for post
production, editing the films, and creating the DVDs are still needed
for Dr. Greg Stone's Ocean Health and Human Impacts, and
for Dr. Emanuel's Hurricanes and Climate.
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