Grades 7-12: Careers in the Nursing Profession **FREE to Members**

2009-10
WVIZ/PBS ideastream®
Career Exploration Series

Program:

"Careers in the Nursing Profession"

It’s no secret that there is a nursing shortage in the United States. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, more than one million nurses will be needed by 2016. Employment of registered nurse (RNs) alone is expected to grow 23%. That’s a lot of opportunity for those with the right nursing training.

The nursing profession promises a fulfilling and enriching experience for anyone looking to make a positive impact on countless number of lives. Join us as our guests discuss their educational background, required training, skills and day-to-day responsibilities.

Presenters:

Nurses from Cleveland’s Leading Trauma Center “Metro Hospital”


Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Time: Session #1 9:00 - 9:45 a.m. Session #2 10:00 -10:45 a.m.

Transmission Modes: NOTA and eTech/Ohio State IP Networks

Schools interested in participating in this educational opportunity should contact John Ramicone at 216-916-6360 or john.ramicone@ideastream.org by March 4th.

A program fee of $75.00 will be charged to schools not in the NOTA member districts. Please process a purchase order to WIVZ/PBS Distance Learning, c/o John Ramicone, 1375 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland 44115 and fax a copy or the p.o. number to 216-916-6361.

Grades 5-12: GREAT EXPLORERS series in March and April from Vanderbilt Virtual School

This videoconference series will provide a window with special emphasis on not just what is known about our world and the Universe but how it has come to be known. This approach reveals the very personal means by which researchers ask questions of the world and empower themselves to create a pathway to an answer.



FIVE VIDEOCONFERENCE TOPICS:

1)Thursday, March 4, 2010

Dr. Molly Miller

"Adventures in Antarctica"


2)Thursday, March 18, 2010

Dr. Rick Chappell

"Mission To Mars"


3)Thursday, April 1, 2010

Dr. Bob Schweikert


"What Time is It?: Sundial history, contemporary dials and Earth orbital dynamics"


4)Thursday, April 22, 2010

Dr. James Crowe

"Nanotechnology, Nanomedicine & Nanobiotechnology"


5) Wednesday, October 6, 2010 - (YES! Next Fall semester!)

Dr. Tiffiny Tung

(Mummy Autopsy)

"Reading the Bones: Skeletons and Mummies of the Past"


Register quickly! These fill up fast!


REGISTER Online for all Videoconferences: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/virtualschool/registration.htm



Target audience: students in grades 5-12


Times: 9:00 - 9:45 and 10:00 - 10:45 AM (CENTRAL time zone)


Format: 45-minutes formatted into 30-minute presentation, and then


15-20 minute Q & A


Cost: $75 per site


Questions: Chandra Allison, at (615) 322-6511 or email chandra.allison@vanderbilt.edu

Patsy Partin, M.Ed

Director, Virtual School

Vanderbilt University

2007 Terrace Place

Nashville, TN 37203

(615) 322-6384

www.vanderbilt.edu/virtualschool

Grades 8-12: Presidential Powers **FREE**

Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution defines the executive branch and specifically states the powers of the president. EXPLORE and EXAMINE documents from the National Archives at Fort Worth that illustrate these powers. EXTRAPOLATE information from primary sources including presidential appointments, pardons, and treaties. Documents from the administrations of Jefferson, Monroe, Polk, Grant, and Cleveland will be highlighted.

Please visit the following site to download the documents that will be used in this program: http://www.connect2texas.net/nara .

Most sites will be view-only!


National Archives at Fort Worth


Friday February 26th

Grades 8th-12th

10:00 - 10:45 AM CST

FREE


Registration deadline: February 10th



Connect2Texas is a service offered by

Education Service Center Region XI

and the

Region Eleven Telecommunications Network (RETN)

3001 North Freeway

Fort Worth, TX 76106

(817) 740-3625

Grades 2-3: Super Cool Science

Explore the fantastic science of dry ice and liquid nitrogen. Students will witness the effects of extreme temperatures on matter and see how solids, liquids, and gases undergo physical and chemical changes. Watch as the super cold liquid nitrogen transforms everyday objects in ways you couldn’t imagine. This is definitely an extremely COOL lesson!

Kathleen Fox
kfox@greenville.k12.sc.us
402 Roper Mountain Road
Greenville, SC  29615
United States
Phone: (864) 355-8930





3/4/10 & 5/6/10
9:15 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
$100
45 Minutes

Grade 5-12 Adventures in Antarctica with Dr. Molly Miller

“Adventures in Antarctica” with Dr. Molly Miller.

Target audience: students in grades 5-12

Times: THURSDAY, March 4, 2010 9:00 – 9:45 and 10:00 – 10:45 AM (CENTRAL time zone)

Format: 45-minutes formatted into 30-minute presentation, and then

15-20 minute Q & A

Cost: $75 per site

Questions: Chandra Allison, at (615) 322-6511 or email chandra.allison@vanderbilt.edu

Join Dr. Molly Miller, geologist from Vanderbilt, as she describes her many trips to Antarctica. For 32 years, Molly Miller has been a professor of geology at Vanderbilt. Every four or five years, she sheds her lab coat to don multiple layers of fleece and fabric in order to collect rock samples in the ultimate geologic laboratory: Antarctica.

In this frozen landscape she looks for, and finds, evidence that an abundant animal community flourished there more than 200 million years ago. The evidence that she studies is the burrows and tracks that these ancient animals left behind in the rock. Miller uses these trace fossils to reconstruct the environment, ecosystem and climate that existed in these ancient times. She is convinced that this forbidding land contains important clues about long-term climate change and the origin of mammals.

See you soon,

Patsy Partin, M.EdDirector, Virtual School
Vanderbilt University
2007 Terrace Place
Nashville, TN 37203
(615) 322-6384
www.vanderbilt.edu/virtualschool

Grade 4: Aviation Pioneers

Aviation Pioneers:
True World Leaders


Friday, March 19
Offered four times: 9:15, 10:30, 1:00, and 2:15

Subject area: Social Studies
Grade level: 4

Click for the registration form.

The lifetimes of Ohioans Wilbur and Orville Wright, John Glenn and Neil Armstrong have spanned nearly a century and during that time frame, these men brought more change to the world than anyone before or since them. How did Ohio become the Birthplace of Aviation? This program will review the daring accomplishments of these four Ohioans.


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Cost? $50 per session for SOITA Comprehensive Member schools; $75 per session for all others

Limit? Yes, each session is limited to four schools. Registration is on a first-come basis

Questions? Contact bob@soita.org or call 800-964-8211

Want to place a test call to SOITA? Dial 216.48.137.41

GNG has partnered with the Bezos Family Foundation and Architecture for Humanity to create Students Rebuild. This is an OPEN CALL to students around the world to collectively become a part of a movement of young people to help rebuild schools in Haiti. Students will lend a hand to their Haitian peers by jointly raising $500K to help reconstruct schools devastated by the earthquake. Did we mention this is a matching challenge grant?!? Thus, your students have the potential to help raise $1 million dollars for Haiti! (All amounts raised are welcomed, but there is a $2500 fundraising cap per school.)

As an educator, here is your chance to get your students fired up about this awesome opportunity by tapping into their creativity and leadership skills and giving them a forum to TANGIBLY RESPOND to most the devastating earthquake the Western Hemisphere has experienced in 200 years.

Students need not sit back and observe the images and sounds replayed in various media outlets - this is their opportunity to TAKE ACTION. BRING FRIENDS. AND TOGETHER, REBUILD.

Here are four simple steps to get started:

1. Sign-up for our Live FREE VCs

GNG will be on the ground the week of March 22-26. Click here to register or here to learn more!

2. Register a team at StudentsRebuild.org (or two or three!)

Reach out to your social studies department, your history department, your community service club, your French club, your architecture club, or better yet - reach out to the entire student body!

3. Watch our LIVE WEBCAST

GNG will be conducting a special LIVE webcast while we are on the ground - simply click the URL (to be provided) and hook your students in to what’s happening on the ground.

4. Start Brainstorming!

Be creative and have fun as you and your students brainstorm various ways to raise money to help rebuild schools for Haiti!

As this is a Rapid Response program, we are still in the process of planning and improving this program, so all times and dates are subject to change. For more information, contact Grace Lau- grace@gng.org or 212.529.0377.

Our team here at GNG is thrilled to bring you and your students this incredible opportunity to make a difference! Look forward to seeing you, in the field!