{"id":3803,"date":"2003-09-03T08:04:45","date_gmt":"2003-09-03T13:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/?p=3803"},"modified":"2013-07-24T16:55:13","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T21:55:13","slug":"monthly-news-summary-september-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/articles\/3803","title":{"rendered":"Monthly News Summary – September 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This issue of\u00a0SSEC In the News\u00a0covers news and research results primarily from August 2003. Use images freely with credit to the Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison, but please notify\u00a0Terri Gregory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Wisconsin Weather Stories project has gotten off to a fine start. The four teachers and an alternate picked to work on the project attended an orientation workshop in August at UW\u2013Madison\u2019s SSEC. They were joined by senior undergraduates in atmospheric science and folklore who, as part of their course requirements, are acting as technical consultants in science and folklore. Teachers and consultants together will draw from local stories and meteorological data to create a curriculum that meets academic standards in Science, English Language Arts, and the Social Studies. At the end of the project, funded by the\u00a0Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment<\/a>, they will post their curriculum on three Web sites, available for free use by other teachers and anyone else interested in weather lore. To judge from the pervasiveness of weather terms and stories in the language, at least in Wisconsin, the site will be popular. Not only are lesson plans posted on the\u00a0Weather Stories Web site<\/a>, but some fantastic weather narratives are, too. The fall semester has just started; teachers have only begun to complete lesson plans. As the project progresses, much more will be added, so keep in touch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Participants in the Wisconsin Weather Stories Project: Bottom row, left to right\u2014Kris Karnauskas, Holly DeRose, Karyl Rosenberg, Anne Pryor, Margaret Mooney; top row\u2014Russ Bailey, Steve Ackerman, Mary Kornely, Louie Holwerk, Jamie Yuenger, Teyulelu Cornelius, Mary Jo Fuhry, and Claire Schmidt.<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The\u00a0Wisconsin State Journal<\/em>\u2019s higher education reporter Karen Rivedal joined project participants during their orientation and noted in her August 14 piece that telling weather stories ought to include some key steps followed by scientists, \u201csuch as observation, analysis, and hypothesis or prediction.\u201d University Communications science editor Terry Devitt issued a\u00a0news release<\/a>\u00a0explaining the project in more depth on September 9. Steve Ackerman, a project leader who directs the university\u2019s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies and teaches meteorology, was interviewed by WIBA Radio\u2019s news director Michael King on September 10. The project\u2019s story also appeared in the\u00a0Wisconsin Week Wire<\/em>\u00a0and in the campus newspaper,\u00a0Wisconsin Week,<\/em>\u00a0for September 10.<\/p>\n

The project will run from May 2003 through June 2004. Teachers selected for the program are Russ Bailey who teaches 7th grade science at Northwestern Middle School in Poplar, Wisconsin; Teyulelu Cornelius, a teacher in the Gifted and Talented program at Oneida Nation Schools in Oneida; Mary Kornely, a 4th grade teacher in the Denmark Elementary School; and Karyl Rosenberg who teaches high school science at Nicolet High School in Glendale. Alternate teacher Mary Jo Fuhry teaches elementary science in Milwaukee\u2019s Indian Community School. UW\u2013Madison students involved in the project are Louie Holwerk, Holly DeRose, Kris Karnauskas, Claire Schmidt, and Jamie Yuenger. Besides Steve Ackerman, project coordinators are project manager Margaret Mooney who is a meteorologist and outreach specialist with SSEC\u2019s Office of Space Science Education, James Leary who directs UW\u2013Madison\u2019s Folklore Program and is codirector of the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures and Professor of Scandinavian Studies, and Anne Pryor who is Folk Arts Education Specialist for the Wisconsin Arts Board.<\/p>\n

Watch the SSEC\u00a0Features page<\/a>\u00a0for a story featuring experiences of students in the Weather Stories Project. For more information, contact\u00a0Anne Pryor<\/a>, or\u00a0Steve Ackerman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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