MY NASA DATA E-note (Number 30)
January 2009

Greetings MY NASA DATA Alumni and Newslist members!

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1) Lessons added to Teacher Plans collection
2) Professional Development Webcast Series
3) Where Can I Find Grant Money?? 
4) STORM Air Quality course

1) Lessons added to Teacher Plans collection

Two more new lessons from the 2008 workshop group and one lesson from the 2005 workshop group are 
available on the website on the Teacher Plans page http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/User_lessons.html:

Lesson #67: Geographic Effects on Precipitation, Water Vapor and Temperature contributed by Myles Loveall 
and Lindsay Penney, Long Beach, CA
Lesson #68: Dry Season and 'Green' Season in Costa Rica contributed by Jeff Weigel, Hampton, VA. 

Lesson #69: The Reason for the Seasons contributed by Janell Simpson, Harahan, LA


2) Professional Development Webcast Series
A Professional Development Webcast Series will be offered by NASA Langley Research Center in co-operation 
with NOAA and the VA Department of Education Region 2 Math/Science Coalition, for grades 3-8 and 
Earth Science teachers. Each of the five monthly webcasts will address a different Earth System 
Science topic. The webcasts may be accessed on the NASA Digital Learning Network at 
http://dln.nasa.gov/dln/.
  
3) Where Can I Find Grant Money?? 

A new link has been added to the Science Focus page under Educational Links.   The feature, Where Can 
I Find Grant Money??, http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/links.html, was contributed by Eileen Poling, 
workshop alumnus and ambassador from Parsons, WV, who presented the information at the NSTA Portland 
conference in November.

4)  STORM Air Quality course

The Science center for Teaching, Outreach, and Research on Meteorology(the STORM Project) at the 
University of Northern Iowa (Cedar Falls) will sponsor a short course entitled "Studies in Air Quality 
for Science Educators" on June 21-26, 2009.  This intensive, one-week course is designed specifically 
for middle school and high school science teachers.  Participants will receive a stipend.  Expenses, 
including travel, will be paid by the STORM Project.  Out-of-state teachers are encouraged to apply. 
Applications will be accepted until session is filled, but those received by February 27, 2009 will 
be given first consideration. For more information, see http://www.uni.edu/storm/saqse/.