Grades 7-12: Royal Botanical Gardens

Karin Davidson-Taylor
Outreach Education Coordinator, Royal Botanical Gardens
kdavidsontaylor@rbg.ca

When is a tree, a branch, a mound of dirt or a leaf more than
meets the eye? When it is uses these natural items to create
Earth art or Ephemeral art. The artist utilizes natural materials
and plants to create both large- and small- scale installations
in diverse indoor and outdoor sites. Landscape and art
become inextricably linked, revealing new relationships with
nature, landscape and the environment.

Royal Botanical Gardens (RBG) announces a special interactive school program,
Earth Art, for students and adults. You will have an opportunity to interact with
the site manager of the exhibit, Nancy Prochuk, about the one-of-a-kind
environmental and ephemeral installations that are being created in our gardens
and natural areas.

Date and Time: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. EDT

Target Audience: Middle and Secondary school students; college and university
students; libraries, art galleries, and more

Format: 45 - 60 minute videoconference: formatted into a 30-minute presentation
followed by 20 - 30 minute interactive Question and Answer session with
students

Cost: $125 per site.

Registration: Please email Karin first to confirm that there is a slot available and
then fax the completed registration form.

Questions: Contact Karin via email (kdavidsontaylor@rbg.ca) or phone
(905-527-1158 ext 249; 800-694-4769 ext 249 (Canada only))

Before the videoconference, students should prepare questions to ask during
the interactive question and answer period.

Important: This may be a multipoint presentation of a maximum of 3 connections.
Check out our website for more information about the exhibit:
http://www.rbg.ca/pages/EarthArtExhibit.html
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

SOITA's Content Schedule for September thru December

Below is a listing of the dates and topics
for our Fall Content for Students videoconferences.

We will send details, descriptions, and registration information in August.


September 23 - Idioms - grades 1-2

September 28 - Place Value and Number Sense - grades 2-3

October 7 - Ohio's Aviation Pioneers: True World Leaders - grade 4

October 9 - Life Cycles - grades 3-4

October 14 - Learning to Draw Conclusions - grades 2-3

October 21 - Falling for Autumn: Collecting and Classifying Leaves - grade 4

October 28 - Simple Machines Made Simple - grades 3-4

October 30 - Sound: Here, There, Everywhere! - grades 4-5

November 4 - The Water Cycle- grade 4

November 9 - Kids Rock! A Look at Rocks and Minerals - grades 3-5

November 18 - Animals Habitats - grades 3-5

November 23 - The Ancient Ohio Indians: Who Were They? - grade 4

December 14 and 15 - Christmas Around the World - grades K-2

Date TBD - Prelude to the Civil War: Slavery and States Rights- grades 5 & 8




1. Questions? Contact Bob Stricker at bob@soita.org or 937-746-6333.

2. Want to place a test call to SOITA? Dial 216.48.137.41

Grades 6-12: Live Medical Procedures through COSI

*Surgical Suite: Total Knee Replacement - Grades 6 to 12*

COSI currently has openings for our upcoming Surgical Suite: Total Knee Replacement sessions on May 13, 2009 at 8:45am ET, and 1:15pm ET and May 27, 2009 at 11:00am ET. This program connects students in grades 6 to 12 to a LIVE total knee replacement surgery. Your students will get to interact with the surgeon and other operating room staff during this session.

Teachers will be sent a kit of materials prior to the conference. In the kit, teachers will find materials to conduct both pre and post-visit activities, along with booklets for the students to use during the program.

To make a reservation to participate in this program at your school via video conference, please use our online reservation system at https://education.cosi.org/eers/ .

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*In Depth: Autopsy - Grades 10 to 12*

COSI currently has openings for our In Depth: Autopsy program on May 21, 2009 at 9:00am ET and 11:00am ET. In Depth: Autopsy allows your students in grades 10 to 12 to experience a real autopsy from start to finish. Guided by a forensic pathologist, you will follow a videotape of an actual autopsy while trying to solve for the patient's cause of death.

Teachers receive a kit of materials and for pre- and post-experience activities in the classroom. The kit includes enough materials for up to 30 students.

To make a reservation for COSI's In Depth: Autopsy program, please visit our online reservation system at https://education.cosi.org/eers/.



Jessica Teng
Video Conferencing Coordinator
COSI Columbus
614-228-2674 ext. 2155
jteng@mail.cosi.org

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Grades 7-12: Staging Shakespeare Outdoors **FREE**

New Links News

As part of its ongoing collaboration with HEC-TV Live!, RoundTrips is very pleased to announce two FREE videoconference programs set for May 14 with the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis. Each year the Shakespeare Festival provides a wonderful, free, public theater experience under the stars in the beautiful urban oasis of Forest Park in St. Louis. This year, they are producing "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and our two programs will take you live to their outdoor performance space to see how the production comes together. As you'll note in the short descriptions below, our morning program will focus on production elements and our afternoon program on acting. More details, including program format, learning activities, and curriculum standards are available at our CILC web exhibit for each show. Those links are provided with the short descriptions below.

We hope you and your students can join us on May 14. If you wish to enroll or have any additional questions, please contact us directly via e-mail or the phone number below. Thank you very much for forwarding this information on to others you believe would be interested.

Tim Gore
Education Director
RoundTrips: Interactive Video E-Learning
School District of Clayton
#2 Mark Twain Circle
Clayton, MO 63105
Phone 314 773 6934
roundtrips@clayton.k12.mo.us /span>
http://www.roundtrips.org

Program 1: Staging Shakespeare Outdoors: The Production Elements
Date: May 14, 2009
Time: 10:00 a.m. Central Time
Grade Level: Grades 7-12
Live from the outdoor performance space of the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis, program participants will interact with the director, designers and technical production staff for the Festival’s upcoming outdoor production of Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor. Audience members will tour the set and go both backstage and onstage as they find out what it’s like to design and stage a production outdoors. How do you handle lighting for the show? What about costumes and props? What happens if it rains? Where does the audience sit? Find out how all the front of house, onstage, and backstage production elements come together to create an exciting and enriching exper ence for the audience attending.

More details on the program can be found at http://www.cilc.org/search/content-provider-program.aspx?id=2569.

Program 2: Staging Shakespeare Outdoors: The Actors’ Perspective
Date: May 14, 2009
Time: 1:00 p.m. Central Time
Grade Level: Grades 7-12

Live from the outdoor performance space of the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis, program participants will interact with actors involved in the Festival’s upcoming outdoor production of Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor. Audience members will tour the set and go both backstage and onstage as they find out what it’s like to perform a play under the stars. How does it change the characterization created by the actor? What about projection and gestures? Does it change how actors use costumes and props? What happens f it rains? What’s it like to interact with an audience in an outdoor setting? Find the answers to these questions and more as you meet the actors working together to create an exciting and enriching experience for the audience attending.

More details on the program can be found at http://www.cilc.org/search/content-provider-program.aspx?id=2570.

If you wish to enroll or have any additional questions, please contact us directly via e-mail or phone:
RoundTrips
Phone: 314 773 6934
Email: roundtrips@clayton.k12.mo.us

Grades 1-5: Great Trees...Great Stories... Great Kid!

Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge andBotanical Research Institute of Texas will host this exciting FREE videoconference
Great Trees…Great Stories…Great Kids! Grades 1st-5th
Friday May 15th, 2009 10:45 - 11:30 AM CST
Click here to register now!

Registration deadline: May 12th
During this FREE "view only" program you will meet this year’s winners of the second annual Great Tree Story Essay Contest for third grade students of the Fort Worth ISD. This year’s grand and first prize winning authors will read their winning essays during a videoconference delivered from the Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge.
Guest of honor , Deborah Ferguson a journalist with the Dallas/Fort Worth NBC affiliate, Channel 5 News, will participate in the broadcast by reading Alan Zweibel’s heart-rending book, Our Tree Named Steve .

The Great Tree Story Essay Contest is a part of The Great Tree Project. Go to http://www.brit.org/education/great-trees/ to learn more about the contest, the Tree Ring, or to share your own story about a “great” tree.

Laurie Hogle lhogle@esc11.net or Lori Hamm lhamm@esc11.net . Connect2Texas is a service offered by Education Service Center Region XI3001 North FreewayFort Worth, TX 76106(817) 740-3625

Grades 5-12: Are There Other Earth-Like Planets?

Are There Other Earth-Like Planets? You are invited to hear a NASA scientist talk about the search for other planets outside of our solar system. Each Wednesday in May as part of the NASA Careers Videoconference Series, a researcher will talk about several current and future missions to discover other planets.See the DLiNFocus web page for details about each week: http://erc.arc.nasa.gov/dln

May 6 – Dr. Jon Jenkins will talk about the current Kepler mission and some of the first images received this month

May 13 – Dr. Kerri Cahoy will talk about her work planning a future mission, PECO, to photograph earth-like planets

May 20 – Tracy Drain will talk about the engineering challenges of missions to Mars and the Kepler Mission

Other topics:

May 27 – Mike Madson will talk about air traffic control and designing future airports

June 3 - A researcher to be announced will talk about robotics from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Details:

When: Every Wednesday at 10:00 PDT (1:00 EDT)Who: Any middle school or high school class

Duration: 45 minutes

Register: http://erc.arc.nasa.gov/dln

Each presentation will consist of a 30 min presentation on the researcher’s career and their work, then participating schools will have a chance to ask questions for 15 min.

Grades 7-8: Abe Lincoln - Our Greatest Commander in Chief

May 15 - Armed Forces Day
Abraham Lincoln
Our Greatest Commander in Chief



9:15 - 10:00
10:30 - 11:15
12:30 - 1:15
Subject area: American History

Grade levels: 7 - 8

Celebrate Armed Forces Day with SOITA on Friday, May 15th as we honor the accomplishments of our greatest Commander in Chief, Abraham Lincoln. Honest Abe is 200 years old this year and is regarded by most historians as our greatest president and leader of the U.S. Armed Forces. Former history teacher Dave Gibson joins with Lincoln impersonator James Crabtree to provide an excellent program that will focus on Lincoln's role in the Union victory that led to the survival of the United States of America in the face of civil war. This will be a great opportunity for 8th grade students to review important concepts of the Civil War they learned about this school year. In addition, 7th graders will find this program an effective way to become acquainted with the subject matter they will be studying next year. Time will be allocated for student questions of our presenters.Please note: there is a limit on the number of sites per session. Registrations are on a first-come basis.
Click here for the registration form.

For more information and listing of Ohio Academic Content Standards, click here.



1. Questions? Contact Bob Stricker at bob@soita.org or 937-746-6333.

2. Cost: each session is $50

3. Want to place a test call to SOITA? Dial 216.48.137.41