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Enhancing Education with Sustainable Magnet Data Program

Explore the impact of magnetic data in classrooms through a sustainable outreach program. Utilizing magnetometers installed in schools, this initiative enhances science education by providing real-time and archived data online. Teachers are empowered with resources like lesson guides and engaging activities to integrate this data into their curriculum. Evaluation methods ensure program effectiveness, with yearly workshops and teacher feedback contributing to ongoing improvement. The program emphasizes sustainability and collaboration among educators, scientists, and engineers for long-term success.

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Enhancing Education with Sustainable Magnet Data Program

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  1. Magnetic data in the classroom using a sustainable Education and Outreach program L. M. Peticolas1, N. Craig1, S. Odenwald2, and A. Walker3 1. University of California, Berkeley 2. Astronomy Café 3. Cornerstone Evaluation

  2. Acknowledgements • Don Dearborn at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for installing the magnetometers and his interaction with the communities while in their town. • David Pierce at UCLA for creating software that produces plots of the data for the website and teacher use. • Igor Ruderman and Tim Quinn at UC Berkeley for getting the real-time and archived data on the web • Daniele Meilhan at UC Berkeley for maintaining contact with the teachers every week. • The teachers – without their hard work, this program would not be possible.

  3. THEMIS and Magnetometers • Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions During Substorms (THEMIS) • 5 satellites align every 4 days with each other and with observatories in North America. • The observatories have a magnetometer and/or a camera observing aurora. Earth’s global aurora can follow a pattern called a substorm. The light ‘eruption’ is called onset Movie courtesy of IMAGE

  4. Fort Yates, ND Teachers & Schools GPS The states with research-grade magnetometers at schools: AK, OR, NV, MT, ND, SD, WI, MI, PA, and VT PHOTO of real setup Buried Cable to Mag. Sensor SCIENCE CRITERIA: A rural location that is more than - 100 feet from cars - 0.5 mile from trucking routes - 1 mile from railroad tracks

  5. Accomplishments to date • Installed 12 magnetometers • Directly involved 14 schools with 14 teachers, many more involved indirectly • 2 teacher workshops held in June ’05 and June ‘06 • Developed, tested, & revised Magnetism on Earth teacher’s guide, now in-use in classrooms • Real-time data on the web • Archived data available on the web soon (debugging interface)

  6. http://ds9.ssl.berkeley.edu/themis> IN THE CLASSROOM >GEONS Data Data on the Web

  7. Data Formats • 30 minute plots • 24 hour plots • 3 ways of displaying the data Time versus Frequency The color represents spectral Power Time versus XYZ Time versus HDB

  8. Lesson Examples (science & data) • Background science lessons • Exploring Magnetism and Magnetism on Earth teacher guides • Space Science Weekly Problem • Using data in the classroom • Correlations of magnetism data with other space weather data • Soda bottle Magnetometer comparison to research-grade school magnetometer

  9. Evaluation results: how are we doing? • Three main ways of evaluating program: • Teacher PD workshop questionnaires • Yearly phone interviews with teachers • Direct teacher feedback via email or at workshops • Our perceptions • Cornerstone Evaluation creates reports on data Teacher feedback • Many try to persuade other teachers to use materials • All use email and THEMIS web page for communication, many value teacher-teacher emails • At PD workshops, most want more time to cover materials even while rating presentations as ‘clear.’ • Most chose to be part of this program to motivate and/or involve students in ‘real science’ • All are using ideas/materials from workshops • Many create their own lessons • Archived data is important

  10. Sustainability and Multiplier Effects(NASA requires sustainability and dissemination) Previous experience lead teacher to express sustainability concerns • Yearly PD workshops • Student Observation Network • Mission Observatory in AK • THEMIS-GLOBE Bay Mills partnership • Teacher-Teacher Outreach (Michigan Science Teacher Association workshops • Community Outreach Established partnerships are invaluable In conclusion, this type of program is only possible with the commitment of funds and personnel, teachers, E/PO folks, scientists, engineers, software engineers…, over the long term (4+ years).

  11. The end http://ds9.ssl.berkeley.edu/themis > IN THE CLASSROOM

  12. Outline • The program • THEMIS mission and magnetometers • Choosing the schools and teachers • Accomplishments to date • Data on the web • Examples • Soda bottle mag with data comparison • Take a long time to get running • Evaluation • Professional Development Workshops • Challenges and benefit to research in the classroom • Conclusions • Importance of sustaining the program • Commitment of funds and personel • Our perceptions: • Summer technology issues • Difficult to find do-able and meaningful research topics in the classroom • Yearly PD workshops very important with difficult science concepts

  13. Choosing Schools and Teachers • Montana Space Grant Coordinated the Space Grants in 8 states to have state wide competitions. • In all, 25 schools participated: PA-8, MT-7, 3-ND, AK, 1-MI,WI, SD, OR • 1 school per state was selected = 8 • Concerns about rural location, security, sustainability, longevity, and time commitment for teachers. • Those who were interested, were very interested. • THE THEMIS E/PO program selected NV and VT sites.

  14. Not to scale XH (magnetic north) 21615 nT -550 nT YD (magnetic east) Z (down) 45175 nT The GEONS Data • X: the strength in nT of the magnetic field in the direction of magnetic north pole • Y: the strength in nT of the magnetic field in the magnetic east direction • Z: the strength in nT of the magnetic field pointing down 22:36:46 UT 12/02/2005 (30 min plot) 23:06:46 PM 12/02/2005 Shawano

  15. Data on the Web: Benefis &Challenges

  16. Evaluation: Workshops

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