NOAA Brings “World” of Discovery to National Science Teachers Association Conference
Bob Hansen
NOAA Office of Education
April 27, 2009 — Nearly 60 NOAA employees from 21 states represented NOAA at the annual conference of the National Science Teachers Association in New Orleans as part of the agency’s mission to support science educators and foster an environmentally literate public.
More than 35 NOAA employees staffed the NOAA exhibit space on March 19, opening day of the 2009 NSTA Conference. Photo credit: Bob Hansen, NOAA’s Office of Education.
The NSTA Conference, which ran from March 19 to 22, drew nearly 10,000 science educators this year.
NOAA staff conducted a series of educational workshops and symposia, including “Science on a Sphere,” a visually intriguing interactive presentation by NOAA’s Visualization Lab that utilized weather images and other data projected onto an enormous electronic globe.
Every NOAA line office was well represented, and several alumni from NOAA’s Teacher at Sea Program also participated. Highlights of the conference included a speech by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and a joint NSTA/NOAA Symposium on Coral Reefs.
To recap highlights from this year’s NSTA Conference in New Orleans, please visit the NSTA Web site at: http://www.nsta.org/conferences/2009new.
Two teachers show their “Atlas” strength pretending to hold up an electronic globe in NOAA’s exhibit booth, part of the agency’s “Science on a Sphere” presentation at this year’s NSTA Conference. Photo credit: NSTA.
Dan Pisut of NOAA’s Visualization Lab speaks with NSTA Conference attendees during a “Science on a Sphere” presentation at the 2009 NSTA Conference. Photo credit: Jane Whitcomb, NOAA Satellite and Information Service.