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= = ==Session 1: 10:15 - 11:00am // Participants Must Choose One! // ==

// "Is Air Real Stuff" //**-** Gerrie Bastia, John Wickes School, Warwick __ Suggested Audience – Elementary __ Is air real stuff like rocks and water? This session is a hands-on investigation of air and air pressure that will inform and engage your elementary grade students. Teachers who attend will work in teams, just as their students would, to explore, observe, analyze and make conclusions about air. These activities can be included in a Weather unit that will prepare your students for Science NECAP.

__ Suggested Audience – Middle, High School __ In this activity suitable for middle and high school students, participants will determine the pressures on your feet and ankles which will be compared to the pressures of polar bears, elephants and dinosaur feet.
 * // “Feel the Pressure” //** ** - ** Paul Tiskus, Rhode Island College

__ Suggested Audience – Middle, High School __ Geospatial Technologies - Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and Remote Sensing - are fundamentally changing science education today. The same tools that government agencies, businesses, environmental groups, and health care industries are using to solve problems and make decisions can now be employed by students to conduct investigations from their classroom. The use of geospatial technologies fosters data literacy – the ability to identify, organize, present, and analyze data to answer questions and make decisions. This presentation will provide an overview of these technologies and examples of their power to foster meaningful inquiry in the classroom.
 * // “MAP IT! Using Geospatial Technologies for Scientific Inquiry” //**** - ** Lyn Malone, RI Geography Education Alliance

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