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Enhancing Science Education Through IPY Community Building

Join us to support effective science education efforts for the International Polar Year (IPY) at CU Boulder. Learn about the lasting legacy of IPY and engage in collaborative education and outreach projects. Explore data-driven stories to demystify scientific research.

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Enhancing Science Education Through IPY Community Building

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  1. IPY EOC @ CU-Boulder Mark S. McCaffreyIn Support of Effective & Coordinated Education, Outreach, Communication and Community Building for the International Polar Year at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado- Boulder

  2. Earth Science Education “Our education system has failed…” “…has permitted progressive deterioration” “Many science teachers are not interested in science…” “Certification requirements…pay little attention to subject matter.” ---U.S. News and World Report, 1956

  3. What I am proposing is that our instruction in science from the start to the finish should be mindful of the lively processes of science making, rather than being an account only of ‘finished science’ as represented in the textbook…and in the standard and often deadly ‘demonstration experiment.’ Jerome Bruner The Culture of Education 1996

  4. Third IPY (International Geophysical Year) 1957-1958 • Lasting Legacy • Antarctic Treaty • “…massive transformations in our understanding of earth’s physical environment.” • “..new era in large-scale internationally-coordinated field science.” • More than Sputnik

  5. The FirstInternationalPolar Year (1882-1883) Inspired by Austrian Explorer -Carl Weyprecht “But whatever interest all these observations may possess, they do not possess…scientific value. They only furnish us with a picture of the extreme effects of the forces of Nature in the Arctic regions, but leave us completely in the dark with respect to their causes.”

  6. The Second International Polar Year (1932-1933) • During Depression Years • Study of Earth as a system • Beginning of Space Age • Auroral Heights Research funded by Rockefeller Foundation Brabant Rocket Launch, Churchill.

  7. International Polar Year 2007-2008 • Planning by International Council for Science (ICSU) & World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Joint Committee • March 2007 through March 2009 • Planning at National levels • In U.S. the Polar Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences led planning • National Science Foundation lead U.S. agency NFWS

  8. Planning for IPY EOC in USA • Workshops • Polar Research Board and National Academies Reports • Current NSF IPY solicitation ($12M/ 2006, $60M/2007) Bridging the Poles Workshop 2004 Poles Together Workshop 2005 Washington, D.C. - NSF Boulder, CO - NOAA/CIRES

  9. ICE • Online Strategic Planning Workshop funded by NSF and NOAA • March 17-31, 2006 • Asynchronous Web ConferenceTools Integrated CollaborativeEducation • International • Interdisciplinary • Interactive • Identify key concepts for Polar Literacy http://coexploration.net/ipy

  10. International Polar Foundation IPF website:www.polarfoundation.org Scientific website : www.sciencespoles.org Educational website : www.educapoles.org Adventure website: www.antarctica.org The International Polar Foundation : www.polarfoundation.org

  11. DataStoriesDemystifying scientific research • Who • What • Where • When • Why • HOW! NOAA

  12. We live in a sea of stories, and like the fish who (according to the proverb) will be the last to discover water, we have our own difficulties grasping what it is like to swim in stories. Jerome Bruner The Culture of Education 1996

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