- Welcome to the Global Warming Wheel Card Classroom Activity Kit (PDF) (2 pp, 2.4 MB, About PDF)
- Instructions for Making a Global Warming Wheel Card (unassembled) (PDF) (5 pp, 2.4 MB, About PDF)
- Guide for Teachers (including Teacher Notes on Activities) (PDF) (3 pp, 1.3 MB, About PDF)
- Frequently Asked Questions About Global Warming and Climate Change: Back to Basics (PDF) (8 pp, 1.6 MB, About PDF)
- Activity #1: Using the Global Warming Wheel Card (PDF) (2 pp, 1.4 MB, About PDF)
- Homework for Activity #1: Electricity Use and Carbon Dioxide (PDF) (1 pp, 1.3 MB, About PDF)
- Activity #2: What You and Your Community Can Do to Reduce Carbon Dioxide (PDF) (1 pp, 1.3 MB, About PDF)
- Activity #3: A Simple Energy Audit (PDF) (3 pp, 1.3 MB, About PDF)
"Welcome to the Penguin Science Education Page!
Here you will find fun and educational activities to help students learn about many interesting aspects of Adelie penguin life, history and their relationship to climate change.
Students can also send questions to the researchers who study penguins, check the nests of penguins as they look today, and (if the season is right) even receive a postcard from Antarctica!
Adelie Penguin's existence in the far south region of our planet is a fascinating subject. The average day in the life of a penguin is filled with adventure and drama, as they struggle to live and thrive in a challenging environment and changing climate. "
Welcome to the Otter Spotter Blog! Otter Spotter is a collaborative project for the Seneca Park Zoo, Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), and the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Content is complied by Emily Coon-Frisch who currently works as the On-Site Education Coordinator at the Seneca Park Zoo, serves as a Education Advisor for the AZA's Otter Species Survival Committee, and is graduate student at RIT.
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Bounds and Vision
Atlas of Science Visualizing What We Know by Katy Börner MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2010. 266 pp. $$29.95, £22.95. ISBN 9780262014458.
1. Mason A. Porter
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The reviewer is at the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3LB, UK, and at the CABDyN Complexity Centre and Somerville College, University of Oxford.
1. E-mail: porterm@maths.ox.ac.uk
Visualization is a crucial but underappreciated part of science. As venues like the American Physical Society's Gallery of Fluid Motion and Gallery of Nonlinear Images illustrate every year, good visuals can make science more beautiful, more artistic, more tangible, and often more discernible. Katy Börner's continuing exhibition Places & Spaces: Mapping Science (1) and her book Atlas of Science: Visualizing What We Know arise from a similar spirit but are much more ambitious.
Visualization is one of the most compelling aspects of science. Breathtaking visuals from sources like fractals and Disneyland's long-dead "Adventure Thru Inner Space" ride are what originally inspired me toward my personal scientific path, so I welcome any resource that promises to bring the visual joys of discovery to a wide audience. Importantly, Börner's exhibition and book are not mere artistic manifestations, although they would be impressive accomplishments even if that were her only goal. Some scientists have occasionally had great success in the visual arts; for example, physicist Eric Heller has long exhibited the gorgeous fruits of his research on quantum chaos and other topics (2). To fully appreciate Börner's efforts, however, one must be conscious that she is deeply concerned not just with visualization itself but with the science of visualization. Accordingly, her book discusses the history of the science of visualization, where it is now, and where she thinks it can go. Atlas of Scie
Harmful Algae
This website from NOAA and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is meant to serve as a comprehensive resource for information about harmful algal blooms (HABs). Links include basic information about HABs, how they affect humans and ecosystems, the latest HAB news, and information about meetings and conferences.