SOS Explorer - A new classroom tool for integrating science literacy visualizations in elementary classrooms

A workshop hosted by NOAA Boulder for Science On a Sphere®.

Help your students make connections to the Earth.

A free accredited teacher workshop hosted by NOAA Boulder for Science On a Sphere®.

July 28-30th, 2015 at NOAA Boulder (8:30 - 3:30).

Good data visualizations in the classroom can be challenging to find and to use. You’ll get to use our new data visualization tool for the classroom, SOS Explorer, before it’s official release! We’ll provide you with tools and examples to come up with your own relevant ways to use it in your classroom setting. Or, if you already bring your students to NOAA Boulder for field trips, you will also have the option to make your own tailored SOS Theater presentation.

Science On a Sphere (SOS) is a giant animated, intuitive & captivating globe used by NOAA as an educational tool that allows your students to see weather, plate tectonics, geography, the effects of seasons, and details about the far reaches of our globe - the Arctic & Antarctic. SOS Explorer is a desktop version of the SOS musuem experience.

SOS Explorer is a personal flat screen version of the SOS musuem experience, which is due to be released in August '15.

To equip you to use Science On a Sphere to explain difficult-to-visualize scientific concepts such as weather, plate tectonics, geography & vegetation, seasons, the Arctic & Antarctic.

Write an email to Hilary Peddicord. Include in your email application:

• Where and what grade you teach.
• A few sentences about why you are interested in working with Science On a Sphere®
• Whether you will be applying for 2.0 CEU credits or 1.5 graduate level credit from University of Colorado (1 CEU = 10 CDE)

The first 15 teachers who apply with all of the information required will receive an email of acceptance. The next 5 will be wait-listed.

Send an email to Hilary Peddicord.