City University Science and Math Announcements - Jane Goodall is coming!
Ryan Gunhold
Hope your school year is off to a good start everyone!
1) An Evening with Jane Goodall
An Evening with Dr. Jane Goodall
The Power of Youth is Global
with Marcie Sillman
October 28 at 7:30 pm
McCaw Hall at Seattle Center
Giant Magnet, in association with the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI), is proud
to present an evening with JGI founder, Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE at McCaw Hall
on October 28. Dr. Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, conservationist
and UN Messenger of Peace, will discuss Jane Goodall¹s Roots & Shoots the
global environmental and humanitarian youth program of the Jane Goodall
Institute. Roots & Shoots empowers young people from preschool through
college to make positive change happen for our communities and the world.
Dr. Goodall¹s McCaw Hall appearance will focus on the global empowerment of
youth, growing Roots & Shoots in the region, her partnerships with Northwest
schools and organizations, and how we can work together to create a brighter
future for all those who calls this planet home.
³Roots creep underground everywhere and make a firm foundation. Shoots seem
very weak, but to reach the light, they can break open brick walls. Imagine
that the brick walls are all the problems we have inflicted on our planet.
Hundreds of thousands of roots and shoots, hundreds of thousands of young
people around the world, can break through these walls. We CAN change the
world.² - Dr. Jane Goodall
TICKETS GO ON SALE SPETEMBER 17 AT 10:00 AM
Purchase tickets here:
http://www.ticketmaster.com/Dr-Jane-Goodall-tickets/artist/803914
Post-show book-signing in lobby. Dr. Goodall will sign copies of her new
book Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being
Rescued from the Brink
2) Alien Safari! Using Extremophiles To Excite Students And Meet State
Science Standards
Join NASA Solar System Exploration Educator Denise Thompson and special
guest University of Washington assistant research professor and NASA
Astrobiology: Exobiology and Evolutionary Biology Program project principal
investigator Stephen Wood to explore the diversity of the microbial world.
Use hands on activities and multi-media tools to investigate life, extreme
environments, habitability, and microbial diversity. Includes a variety of
FREE NASA astrobiology curricular materials. . (WA state clock hours
available at no charge).
Date: October 9, 2010
Time: 9:00 am 1:00 pm
Audience: Educators teaching students in grades 6 - 12
Location: Museum of Flight
Fee: Free
Registration: dsm...@museumofflight.org or 206-764-1384
Questions: mkw...@museumofflight.org or 206-768-7216
3) Lives of Science (science education)
A letter from Dr. Lee Hartwell:
http://www.fhcrc.org/science/education/livesofscience/hartwell/index.html
4) Earth Science Week 2010 Photography Contest
The American Geological Institute (AGI) is sponsoring a photography contest
to celebrate Earth Science Week 2010. The photography theme for this year
is: ³We Depend on Energy.² This contest is open to interested persons of any
age. The winner will receive $300, a copy of AGI's Faces of Earth DVD, and
his or her photograph will be used on the Earth Science Week website. Photos
will be judged by a panel of geoscientists on creativity and relevance to
and incorporation of the topic. All eligible submissions must be received
electronically by 5pm EST on October 15, 2010. For more information, please
visit:http://www.earthsciweek.org/contests/photography/index.html
5) IISME ETP of the Week: "Design and Analysis of PCR Primers"
This exemplary piece of curriculum was created by a 2009 IISME Fellow. The
Education Transfer Plan (ETP) describes a multi-step lesson that teaches
students how to choose the best primers for PCR. It was designed for the
Advanced Bioinformatics and Genomics course at City College of San Francisco
and can be modified for use in high school biology courses. The lesson
starts by testing the students' knowledge of the basic principles of DNA-DNA
binding and PCR. The students then apply this knowledge to a real-world
example of PCR primer design. Using Vector NTI, a DNA and protein sequence
analysis software package (this software is free for educational use), the
students will analyze the primers they have designed. In the final step the
students will apply what they have learned and use the software to optimize
the sequence of their primers for an efficient PCR. All activities,
handouts, teacher notes, and assessment pieces for this curriculum are
included. The following link will take you directly to the "Design and
Analysis of PCR Primers² ETP.
http://community.iisme.org/lessons/display.cfm?lessonid=623.
Hoping you all have a glorious academic year!
My Best,
Ryan Gunhold, M.A., S.T.E.
Associate Faculty
School of Management
School of Education
CityUniversity of Seattle
www.cityu.edu
Outgoing Board President
CUPA-HR Washington Chapter
http://www.cupahrregions.org/western/chapters.asp
Chief Learning Architect
Resonant Insights
http://www.resonantinsights.com/
Direct: 206.930.4410
Email: rgun...@cityu.edu
http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryangunhold
To create a world of clarity and deeper understanding through the realization of human potential and educational greatness.