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by Spencer Cody Edmunds Central 6-12 Science teacher Teachers from 14 school districts from across South and North Dakota joined students from Edmunds Central and Wagner school districts to participate in the Ocean Dakotas Institute thanks to funding from National Marine Sanctuaries and NOAA. The Ocean Dakotas Institute is an educational institute focused on promoting ocean science curriculum development and implementation along with student interest in ocean science careers. The cohort of...
by Spencer Cody EC Science teacher Seventeen Edmunds Central and Bowdle students and two teachers traveled by bus to view the eclipse in totality in Texas as part of an effort to increase each district's knowledge in space science and interest in space science careers. This effort was funded through two Kelly Lane Earth and Space Science Grants made to each school funded through NASA via the South Dakota Space Grant Consortium. Leading up to the eclipse, students in both schools worked on...
by Spencer Cody Edmunds Central School Twelve teachers from 10 school districts from throughout South Dakota joined Edmunds Central students in the Queening Institute hosted by the Edmunds Central School District and Adee Honey made possible by Specialty Crop Block Grant funding through the USDA. The Queening Institute left Roscoe on a bus on March 13 and picked up teachers at stops along the way as they traveled to the institute site location in Woodville, Mississippi. During the institute in...
by Spencer Cody Edmunds Central Science teacher Ten teachers from nine school districts joined Edmunds Central students in a Pollination Institute hosted by the Edmunds Central School District and Adee Honey which was made possible by funding through a Specialty Crop Block Grant from the USDA. Pollination Institute participants left Roscoe on a bus on February 14 and picked up teachers at stops along the way as they traveled to the institute site location in Bakersfield, Calif. During the...
Edmunds Central student Theo Haerter and science teacher Spencer Cody presented on astronomy research at the American Astronomical Society (AAS) winter meeting in New Orleans the second week of January. Cody explained, "At the meeting they were joined by other educators and students from the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP). For over a decade, NITARP has partnered small groups of educators with a research astronomer for original, year-long, authentic research projects. At the...
by Spencer Cody Edmunds Central Science teacher Twelve Edmunds Central students and two teachers spent August 7-14 learning about the caves of Tennessee and Kentucky and the Great Smokey Mountains. This was a "dry run" of a professional geology field trip to be run in October sponsored by the Geological Society of America. After two days of transit, students started their first day of cave exploration deep inside Lookout Mountain that towers above Chattanooga, Tennessee, to see the tallest and...
Eleven Edmunds Central students and two Edmunds Central staff traveled to the Great Lakes July 25-31 as part of a field experience based on a book study of The Death and Life of the Great Lakes. The trip was funded thanks to a NOAA Planet Stewards grant. Throughout the week, students learned about Great Lakes ecology and how aquatic invasive species have changed the Great Lakes. Furthermore, students learned about how their introduction has impacted South Dakota or may impact South Dakota in the...