Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears

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Beyond Penguins and Polar
Bears

• Kimberly Lightle, PI
• lightle.16_at_osu.edu
• College of Education and Human Ecology
• Ohio State University

Images U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Sue
Sheridan
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Integrating polar science and literacy in K-5
classrooms

• This work is supported by the National Science
  Foundation under Grant No. 0733024. Any opinions,
  findings, and conclusions or recommendations
  expressed in this material are those of the
  author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the
  views of the National Science Foundation.

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Monthly thematic issues of a free online magazine

• Content Knowledge
• Lessons Activities
• Virtual Bookshelf
• Researcher Stories
• Misconceptions
• Teaching Assessment Strategies
• Technology Integration
• Standards alignment

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Beyond Penguins utilizes NSDL and other tools,
including
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Project Partners
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Current Issue
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Past Issues
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Year 1 AccomplishmentsSeptember 1, 2007 August
31, 2008

• Blog
• 129 posts
• 26,940 pageviews
• Cyberzine
• 6 issues
• 109 articles
• 18 student books
• 4 assessment probes
• 9 guest columnists
• 48,778 pageviews
• 18, 596 visits

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Year 2 AccomplishmentsSeptember 1, 2008 August
31, 2009

• Blog
• 128 posts
• 36,021 pageviews
• Cyberzine
• 9 issues
• 164 articles
• 27 student books
• 6 assessment probes
• 17 guest columnists
• 272,692 pageviews
• 140,564 visits

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Year 2 AccomplishmentsSeptember 1, 2008 August
31, 2009

• A rating from Education World web site
• 30 K-5 teachers field testing material
• Supplemental funding from NSF
• Podcast series 7 episodes created
• 6 web seminars and 8 Tapped In events
• 21 Conference presentations and poster sessions
• 2 publications in practitioner journals
• 254 Feedburner subscribers

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• Write a column or blog post
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• Contribute learning resources
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• Participate in our learning community
• Share our project with others

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Visit http//beyondpenguins.nsdl.org/
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Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears blog

• News from the polar regions
• Professional Opportunities
• Broadcasts
• Monthly polar news roundups
• Polar research

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