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S'COOL E-note October, 2007

Greetings from the S'COOL Team! Welcome to Issue #20 of the S'COOL E-note.

This month's E-note includes:

1. Daylight Saving Time Ends
2. S'COOL website "Feature of the Month"
3. Lesson Plan Feature
4. Data Analysis
5. Email address changes
6. S'COOL will be at NSTA regionals
7. Polar-Palooza

1. Daylight Saving Time Ends
   
   For many of us, Daylight Saving Time will be ending soon (November 4 for US) and for others DST will begin.
   
   Keep in mind, when requesting an overpass schedule, the "Daylight Saving Time in Effect for Period Selected" box is only used for observation dates during DST. When observing during standard time this box is not used.

2. S'COOL website "Feature of the Month"
   
   Are you required to align your S'COOL activities with a state/country standard of learning? Please take a few minutes to visit Education Standards related to S'COOL. We are still working toward our project of identifying state (or country) education standards addressed by implementing the S'COOL program and/or materials. When you get to that part of your curriculum, please remember to send us a quick note. Thanks!
   
   Please send:
   • name of state/country
   • state standard number/letter/or other identifier
   • brief description of the standard
   • if applicable, the specific part of the S'COOL experience meeting that standard

3. Lesson Plan Feature
   
   To provide practice in basic graphing of S'COOL observation data, you may want to use this month's featured lesson, "Cloud Observation and Graphing" submitted by Consuelo B. Muhammad, Newport News, VA. In this lesson, students will graph the percent of cloud cover and three other observed conditions (Surface Temperature - C, Barometric Pressure - in. of Mercury, and Relative Humidity - %).

4. Data Analysis
   
   As mentioned in the August, 2007 E-note, the updated data analysis file has been posted. We hope this will be a useful tool. The S'COOL team is very interested in the results of any study that you perform with these data. Please share your ideas and results with us!

5. Email address changes
   
   Our email address is changing. Please add scool@lists.nasa.gov to your address book. The old address scool@larc.nasa.gov will continue to work for a while. Please don't forget to send us an email when you change email addresses.

6. S'COOL will be at NSTA regionals
   
   The S'COOL team will be represented at the NSTA 2007 regional meetings in Denver and Birmingham . Will we see you there?
   
   The dates and locations are:
   
   Denver
   • S'COOL Presentation
     • November 10
     • 8:00-9:00
     • Colorado Convention Center, Room 403
   • NESTA share-a-thon
     • November 9
     • 12:30-1:30
     • Denver Hyatt, Capitol 4
   
   Birmingham
   • S'COOL presentation
     • December 8
     • 9:30-10:30
     • Jefferson Convention Complex, North Meeting Room H
   
   
   If you are doing a presentation for these or other conferences, and would like to include S'COOL materials, just drop us a note. We will also include your presentation on our visits page if you send us the details. Thank you to those of you who have represented us!

7. Polar-Palooza
   
   The human face of the exploration of Earth's polar regions is coming to science centers and museums across the United States. NASA and the National Science Foundation are sponsoring the Polar-Palooza "Stories from a Changing Planet" tour beginning Oct. 19 in San Diego. The tour will stop in cities across the country in 2007 and 2008.