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Other ALISON Teacher Activities

ALISON Guide Books and other Teacher Initiatives

ALISON teachers are contributing more to ALISON than taking their students to the study sites to make measurements. They are being science education leaders. For example, Marc Swanson (Seward) and Cheryl Abbott (Wasilla) have written two ALISON guides and had a paper accepted for publication in a journal of the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) [Swanson and Abbott, 2005a, 2005b; 2005c].

Swanson, Abbott and Todd Hindman (Nome) were the Alaska awardees for the 2004 Toyota Tapestry Grant for their proposal “Project Sikuvik (Ice Time) - The Science of Lake Ice and Snow”. Nationwide, there are only fifty Tapestry awards per year. Swanson, Abbott and Hindman have also given snow and ice presentations at NSTA national conventions and Alaska Science Teachers Association meetings.

Download Marc and Cheryl's guide books:
Educator's Guide to ALISON Measurements and
ALISON Guide to Heat and Energy Activities in the Classroom.