Community:Polar

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Contents 1 Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears 1.1 Project websites 1.2 Planning, Documentation 1.3 Communications, Publicity, Marketing 1.4 Story Sandbox 1.5 Educational Documents and Resources 1.6 Collaborative effort

Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears

-- Integrating literacy and IPY concepts in K-5 classrooms

This is the project development page for the NSF-funded educational online resource Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears. Deliverables will include 20 issues of an educational online magazine for K-5 teachers and a collection of related International Polar Year educational resources that will be permanently discoverable in NSDL.

Project websites

• Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears Magazine
• Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears blog
• International Polar Year

Planning, Documentation

• Goals and deliverables
  • Issue #1 Freeze Punch List
  • Issue #1 Production Schedule
• Meeting Notes
• Timeline
• Evaluation
• Content development plan
  • Proposed departments/areas
  • Equity Brainstorming
  • Resource List
• Technology development plan (Requirements)
• Outreach dissemination plan
  • Dissemination Tracking

Communications, Publicity, Marketing

• Press Releases

Story Sandbox

• Science and Literacy Points on The Golden Compass

Educational Documents and Resources

• Teaching strategies (word doc)
• Literacy information (word doc)

Collaborative effort

• Ohio State University
  • COEHE (need name and url)
  • Byrd Polar Research Center
  • Ohio Resource Center
• National Science Digital Library
  • Technical team at Cornell University
  • Outreach team at UCAR
• COSI Columbus Hands-on Science Center
• Miami University

The project mail list is "polar" at "comm.nsdl.org".