Kate Miller teamed up with the Friends of the Arlington Planetarium for a Sunday presentation about her Antarctic expedition. After the 30-minute, full-dome showing of "Chasing the Ghost Particle," Kate presented about life in Antarctica and the IceCube Project. Near 50 people attended.
Kate attended the IceCube Collaboration Meeting (Spring 2017) in Madison, WI. Here, she got a better feel for how the IceCube collaboration is organized and how science is done within the collaboration. Kate presented a short powerpoint presentation during Friday's poster session. These slides were also included in the Education and Outreach presentation given by Dr. Madsen Saturday morning. The
Teaching science gives me the satisfaction of sharing my passion for the natural world with others. I try to create opportunities for students to experience science outside of the classroom much like I did in college, through local field trips, or even identifying and mapping out the various large landscape rocks scattered around
Attached is a resource for lessons and simulations that involve studying the Greenhouse Effect and how it affects temperature readings on our planet. The simulations created by PHET are incredible. https://phet.colorado.edu/ Aside from the Greenhouse Effect simulation in this lesson, this site has a large variety of resources for any grade levels to be used as lessons, labs
Over 100 students, teachers, and interested members of the community came out for Antarctica Community Night at Washington-Lee High School. It started with a 20-minute presentation by Kate discussing neutrinos, IceCube, and life at the South Pole. Younger attendees could color an Antarctica-themed coloring book, drawn by students Douglas Aparicio and Erin Ingram. This was followed by 4 stations -
Arlington Public Schools puts together the event "Dream, Explore, Create your own path" so that local families can explore available career options. Kate, along with colleague Laurie Sulliven, represented the career of a science educator, featuring her PolarTREC expedition as one of the out-of-the-classroom opportunities available to science teachers. Over 400 people attended of all ages.
Arlington Public Schools' Green Scene production teams visits Kate's IB Physics class as students are learning about the fundamental particles of matter. This 5-minute video captures a clear connection between the required physics content and the IceCube Neutrino Observatory 2016 Expedition.
This lesson is a modification of what Dave Hess and I, Stan Skotnicki, use in our Earth Science classes at Cheektowaga Central High School. It is an extension of our lesson on Celestial Motions as we track the apparent path of the sun across the sky at different latitudes. Prior to this Lab activity they would have already