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CIRES Outreach projects focus on professional development for teachers and scientists, partnerships with school districts, opportunities for students at all levels and avenues for teachers and students to be involved in current research.

Hallmarks of our Projects:

  • driven by the needs of the teacher, district or student who is being served;
  • uses inquiry-based pedagogy and the processes of science.
  • involves research scientists and current research
  • often targets under-represented and educationally disadvantaged populations
  • based upon National, state and local science education standards
  • contributes to our understanding of best practices in geoscience education and outreach.

CIRES Education and Outreach Newsletters

For more information about our projects, please contact us.

Present Projects

tibet

Upward and Outward
Scientific Inquiry Tibetan Plateau

 

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National Ocean Sciences Bowl
Student competition increasing knowledge of the oceans for high school students, teachers, and parents
video "Owning the Polar Crisis"
A film by Ryan Vachon

 

 

WORKSHOP:
Making Climate Hot: Effectively Communicating Climate Change

"Teaching about Publicly Controversial Science"
by Sarah Wise

Kutscher Presentation

 

 

Past Projects

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Digital Library for Earth System Education
CIRES contributions to a community resource supporting teaching and learning about the Earth system
 
Earthworks logo
Earthworks
Earth System Science for Secondary Science Teachers free professional development workshop
 
IPY logo International Polar Year: an opportunity for researchers, educators, and others to plan a wide range of strategies for the IPY
 


 Video clip

 

A Film by Ryan Vachon

 
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Ocean Interactions
Connecting Scientists, educators, and students in learning about oceanic and atmospheric sciences
 
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ReSciPE: Resources for Scientists in Partnership with Education
 

Assessment Frameworks
: supporting the Colorado assessment frameworks for science with a variety of resources
EVE: the Solar Dynamics Observatory Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment (SDO EVE) project
Math/Science Partnership: intensive summer institutes on the northeast Front Range
Sombrero Marsh Education Program: a field-based watershed curriculum for upper elementary students
THREDDS: Evaluation for Thematic Realtime Environmental Distributed Data Services (THREDDS) 2nd Generation

December 2007
Outreach Newsletter


Outreach Sept 2007
Newsletter


     
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