The Oklahoma Climatological Survey has been offering summer teacher workshops since 1992. OCS realized that many teachers had not taken earth science classes during their college years. However, many elementary and middle school curriculums include a weather unit and high school physics and chemistry classes deal with concepts like phase change, heat transfer, etc. Without a knowledge base in earth science to draw from teaching weather was a challenge. Our workshops are a mechanism for teachers to build that knowledge base in the atmospheric realm of earth sciences.

Below you will find a list of upcoming teacher workshops offered or co-sponsored by the Oklahoma Climatological Survey.
 
EarthStorm Workshop

EarthStorm is a free four-day workshop that provides an opportunity for teachers to investigate weather. Each participant will be provided with a variety of hand out materials.

The workshop is limited to 30 Funded participants from Oklahoma. Additioanl participants will be accepted at their own expense as space allows. We will not be able to provided funding for Kansas teachers like in past years.

 
Registration: Open April 1st
What: EarthStorm Weather Institute for Teachers
When: Tuesday, July 15 - Friday, July 18, 2008
Where: National Weather Center (Map)
120 David L. Boren Blvd.
Norman, OK 73072-7305
Lodging:

Holiday Inn of Norman
1000 N. Intersate Dr.
Norman, OK 73072

405-364-2882
Agenda:
 
 
   
 
FOSS Weather and Water Workshop

The Full Option Science System (FOSS) staff at the Lawrence Hall of Science (University of California) in cooperation with the Oklahoma Climatological Survey, the University of Oklahoma, and NOAA Weather Partners are presenting a workshop at the National Weather Center in Norman, OK. The National Weather Center, opened in 2006, is an unique collaborative research, operational, and teaching facility in meteorology.

 

For more information contact Terry Shaw at terryshaw@aol.com

  
What: FOSS Weather and Water Workshop
When: Monday, July 21 - Friday, July 25, 2008
Where: National Weather Center (Map)
120 David L. Boren Blvd.
Norman, OK 73072-7305
 
 
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