Geoscience Enhancement for Teachers -Wisconsin Initiative for Space Education (GET-WISE) is self-paced, web-based, asynchronous course designed to address the professional development needs for K-12 science teachers in the content areas encompassed by the space sciences, including planetary science and astronomy, earth systems science, and atmospheric science. It consists of lectures that can be viewed on your personal computer as streaming video along with clearly visible graphics used in the lecture. Connections to the Wisconsin Science standards for each topic are provided. Teachers are welcome to download the graphics (PowerPoint) and use them in their classroom for teaching.
Lectures, given by experts in their field, have been previously taped before a live audience and last from 45 minutes to more than an hour and generally include a question/answer session at the end of the lecture with the live audience when the lecture was first taped. Participants are encouraged to contact the Instructor (Dr. Sanjay S. Limaye) for questions on the content, and to receive the password to view the video lectures.
GET-WISE was developed as a Distance Learning Professional Development Program sponsored by the University of Wisconsin System PK-16 Initiative. Topics are presented by science and education experts and linked to Wisconsin State Science standards. It is now supported through WINNERSS, a project funded by a Wisconsin Idea grant from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Earth System ScienceOur Solar System Neighborhood
- Earth as a System - Prof. Francis Bretherton
- Water in the Earth System - Prof. Francis Bretherton
- Weather and Climate - Dr. Sanjay S. Limaye
- Soils - The Good Earth - Prof. John Norman
- Tracking Fires From Space - Elaine Prins
- Antarctica's Weather - Matthew Lazzara
- Global Climate Changes - Prof. David Houghton
Beyond the Solar System
- From Asteroids to the Kuiper Belt - Br. Guy Consolmagno
- Comets - Origins of our Solar System - Dr. Walter Harris
- Comets - Cosmic Wanderers - Dr. Walter Harris
- Collisions in the Solar System - Dr. Jeffrey Morgenthaler
- Life on Mars - Past, Present and Future - Dr. Chris McKay
- Weather in the Solar System - Dr. Sanjay S. Limaye
- Origins of the Solar System - Prof. Edward Churchwell
- Cosmology - Prof. Peter Timbie
- Matter in the Universe - Prof. Eric Wilcots
- Interstellar Medium - Prof. Dan McCammon
- Birth and Death of Stars - Prof. Robert Benjamin
- Sloan Digital Sky Survey - Dr. Rich Kron
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