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ective 2 What’s inside Features WOU news 3 WOU professors William Schoenfeld and Adele Schepige develop climate change curriculum for K-8 classrooms. 4 New construction projects include a live-learn residence hall and a health and wellness center. 6 Hamersly Library strives to convert more resources from print to electronic format. 7 Students and faculty create art designed to improve local water quality. 14 Coming full circle Jim Green completes his undergraduate dream after a 30-year break. 4 7 16 Students volunteer at annual deafblind summer camp Deaf and hearing students volunteer for eight days at a retreat in Seabeck, Wash. 18 Sabbatical in the swamps Assistant professor Karen Haberman searches for “sister sites” in France to complement her research in Oregon’s streams and estuaries. 18 Western Oregon University - Health and Wellness Center Design Development - September 2009 8 Mickey Pardew, special education professor, was appointed to the governor’s autism commission. 9 Kevin Walczyk, music professor, earns national recognition for advising. WOU student Diana Wurzer helped create the graceful willow structures for the Ash Creek Watershed project.W O 14 Magazine U Fall 2009 WOU Magazine • FALL 2009 On the cover 10 WOU’s 152nd graduating class featured keynote speaker and television reporter, alumna Katherine cook ‘02. 21 WOU students Francisco Aranda, lll, Melvin Moothen and Alex González consider green living an important part of their lives. Athletics 22 WOU pitcher Blake Keitzman chooses education over a draft pick with the Seattle Mariners. Alumnotes 23 T.J. Beck ‘98 spends his free time flying his airplane, and filling those extra seats with some special passengers. 24 class notes and remembrances WOU sophomore Diana Wurzer inspects the additional pods created by her classmates. Each willow pod is different, reflecting the artist’s inclinations and the available materials. cover photo by Gail Oberst
This upcoming school year will be quite different for professors William Schoenfeld and Adele Schepige as they are on sabbatical to develop climate change curriculum to be used in K-8 classrooms. The project, funded by a grant from NASA, will be field tested this spring at Faulconer- Chapman School in Sheridan, Ore. Dr. Schoenfeld, associate professor of physics, and Dr. Schepige, professor of science education, conceived the Global Climate Change Institute for Teachers Team. They received a $150,000 grant, and a recent augmentation of $30,000 to fund the development of an interdisciplinary curriculum. Its content will include age appropriate hands-on activities in the earth, physical and life sciences, which will be integrated through reading, and connected to geography, social studies and mathematics. Out of 154 proposals submitted to NASA, only 22 of them were funded. The team also consists of: Phillip Wade, WOU instructor of earth and physical science; Dr. Gwenda Rice, WOU professor of social studies education; Dr. Sue Dauer, A CLIMATE-ORIENTED WOU professor of teacher education; APPROACH Dean- FOR LEARNERS nie Anderson, WOU OF adjunct ALL and AGES retired Salem-Keizer science teacher, Tony Levitt NASA AESP, Dr. Laurie Padman of Earth & Space Research (ESR), Dr. Theresa Bulman, Portland State University professor of geography, and Dr. Rachel Harrington, WOU assistant professor of mathematics education. “This curriculum will especially help K-8 educators who have been out of college for a couple of years or more. Recent graduates will have had some level of environmental education, but older educators likely wouldn’t have learned about climate change. This curriculum will provide them with that knowledge,” Schepige said. This grant covers two years of work on the project. The first year will be curriculum development, followed by professional development workshops next summer. The 2010-11 academic year will be for revising the curriculum and incorporating it in schools within the Willamette Valley. This curriculum will be accessible to all educators because it will incorporate lowcost, hands-on activities. It aligns well with both Oregon’s and the National Climate Literacy new standards. “It will incorporate WOU news Climate Literacy The Essential Principles of Climate Sciences inexpensive activities that kids can do to science grant to add a component for help them A learn Guide about the for fundamental Individuals education and public Communities outreach. Schoen- principles that drive the climate system, feld and Schepige have continued to write and how changing it will impact our proposals to grow the project, and have environment. We will have lots of been adding members to the team, with activities that mimic how things happen each one bringing additional expertise. in the real world,” said Schoenfeld. Another aspect of the project is to make WOU an active Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) partner and training center. GLOBE, jointly funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation, is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based science and education program in which children and their teachers engage in making scientific measurements for a worldwide database. The program is active in 20,000 schools in 110 countries. At present there are no GLOBE partners in either This project had its genesis when Oregon or Washington. Schoenfeld, a volunteer at his child’s In total, NASA has awarded $6.4 elementary school in Corvallis, was million in grants to institutions of introduced to another parent volunteer, higher education and not-for-profit Dr. Laurie Padman. Padman, a physical education organizations nationwide to oceanographer, who had a NASA science enhance learning through the use of grant through ESR, solicited advice from NASA’s Earth science resources. These Schoenfeld about developing a public out- grants support NASA’s goal of engaging reach component to his work. Schoenfeld students in the critical disciplines of contacted Schepige to get her involved. In science, technology, engineering and the summer of 2006, Schepige, Schoe- mathematics and inspiring the next nfeld, and Padman wrote a proposal Second to Version: generation March of 2009 explorers. NASA for extra funding on Padman’s www.globalchange.gov WOU Magazine • FALL 2009 3
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