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• WHO: 5th - 12th+ grade teachers
• WHAT: FREE virtual teacher workshop focused on the Data Lens: Exploring Earth’s Visual Stories from NOAA’s Science On a Sphere.
  • Participants will leave prepared to implement the 10-20 minute lessons and receive them in their inboxes regularly.
• WHEN: Tuesday, October 14 from 4 pm - 5 pm MT
• WHERE: Virtual - GoTo Meeting Link
• CHECK OUT: The most up to date example of a Data Lens mini-lesson announcement.

During this hour teachers will participate as students in a full (20 min) Data Lens activity - which highlights a captivating observation technique - and learn how to use other excellent visual and data literacy resources.

Background: Innovations in data collection, infrastructure, and visualization play an important role in modern society. Large, complex datasets are accessible to and shared widely with the public. Students need to learn how to interpret and reason about visualizations of scientific data in order to keep up with the marketplace and to make crucial decisions, not to mention, in order to do well on standardized tests. 

Instructor: Hilary Peddicord, NOAA's Science On a Sphere Education Lead, CIRES CEEE University of Colorado Boulder