DOCUMENT RESUME ED 396 963 SE 058 720 TITLE Symposium on Education (4th, Dallas, Texas, January 15-20, 1995). INSTITUTION American Meteorological Society, Boston, Mass. SPONS AGENCY World Meteorological Organization, Geneva (Switzerland). PUB DATE Jan 95 NOTE 257p.; A few pages contain light type that may not reproduce well. AVAILABLE FROM American Meteorological Society, 45 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108. Pl. TYPE Collected Works Conference Proceedings (021) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC11 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Climate; Educational Technology; Elementary Secondary Education; Higher Education; *Meteorology; *Oceanography; Research Projects; *Science Curriculum; Weather ABSTRACT The theme of this symposium was "Opening the Doors to the Future: Education in the Classroom and Beyond." Presentations, both oral and poster, are devoted to both K-12 and university educational issues in meteorological and oceanographic education. Oral presentations include: (I) "The Bachelor's Degree in Atmospheric Science-Revision of the 1987 AMS Statement" (Phillip Smith, S. Businger, E. Pani, and J. Zebransky); (2) "Meteorology's Educational Dilemma" (Paul Croft and M. Binkley);(3) "Involvement of Undergraduate Meteorology Students in Faculty Research Projects" (Gregory Byrd, R. Peinback, R. Ballentine, A. Stamm, and E. Chermack);(4) "Creating and Maintaining Enthusiasm for the Undergraduate Major" (Dayton Vincent and P. Smith);(5) "Weather Education at the Introductory College Level"( Robert Weinback and I. Greer);(6) "Weather and Life: A Cognitive Apprenticeship in Personalized Multidisciplinary Problem Solving" (Paul Croft and M. Tessmer);(7) "New Meteorology Program at the U.S. Air Force Academy Integrates Comet Multimedia and Computer Weather Lab into Undergraduate Curriculum" (Thomas Koehler, K. Blackwell, D. Knipp, B. Heckman); (8) "Integration of Interactive Multimedia into the Meteorology Curriculum at the United States Air Force Academy" (Delores Knipp and B. Heckman);(9) "A Survey of the Use of COMET's(R) Forecaster's Multimedia Library in the Academic Community" (Brian Heckman); (10) "Symbolic Manipulators in the Classroom: Using Student Research Topics in Oceanography and Meteorology to Enhance Teaching/Learning of Advanced Mathematics" (Reza Malek-Madani, D. Smith, and C. Gunderson);(11) "Classroom Applications of Interactive Meteorological Visualization" (Michael Biggerstaff and J. Nielsen-Gammon). The poster presentations include topics of interest for both K-12 and university educators. Two joint sessions focused on K-12 educational programs and new technologies for the classroom. 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BEST COPY AVAILABLE 3 FOURTH CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION January 15-20, 1995 Dallas, Texas Sponsored by American Meteorological Society Cosponsored by World Meteorological Organization Front Covor: Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) is a new internationalenvironmental education program established earlier this year by Vice President Al Gore. Its objeotives are to increaseunderstanding of environmental issues among the children of the world and to collect observations important to environmentalscientists. Many schools participating in the GLOBE program will use the Multimedia GLOBE School DisplaySystem shown on the cover for classroom GLOBE activities. This system is being developed by NOAA'sForecast Systems Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado.In addition to schools within the United States, over 100 other countries have formallyindicated a desire to participate in the GLOBE program. All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or copied in any form orby any meansgraphic, electronic, or mechanical. Including photocopying, taping, or information storage and retrieval systems -- without the prior writtenpermission of the publisher. Contact AMS for permission pertaining to the overall collection. Authors retain their individual rights andshould be contacted directly for permission to use their material separately. The manuscripts reproduced herein are unrefereed papers presented at theFourth Conference on Education. Their appearance in thin collection does not constitute formal publication. AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY 45 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts USA02108-3693 4 FOREWORD In 1992, the Board on School and Popular Meteorological and Oceanographic Education (BSPMOE) and the Board on Meteorological and Oceanographic Education in Universities (BMOEU) jointly sponsored the First AMS Symposium on Education as part of the AMS Annual