Students Calling for More Science Want to Help Teachers Organize Aftershool Clubs

Students for Science, an offshoot group generated from the March for Science held last spring, has continued advocating for more science opportunities in school. The website includes an open letter to school boards and administrators across the nation that students can send asking them to support science in the schools. The group also offers ideas for an afterschool club for students interested in advocacy issues, and more.

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Prehistoric Texas?

Texas Parks and Wildlife reminds us that not only is Texas a big place with a diversity of ecosystems, but it also has a past worth exploring as well... They sent this across my desk a week or so ago... View as a Webpage Texans prize their history, and rightly so. It’s a special feeling to look down at the ground beneath your feet and know that it was once trod by Native Americans in hot pursuit of bison, settlers fleeing in the Runaway Scrape or legendary ranchers herding their cattle. Texas Parks & Wildlife magazine brings you 5 of these prehistoric places that you can visit and catch a glimpse into what came before us. Big Bend National Park Fossil Discovery Exhibit Big Bend National Park The arid canyonlands of Big Bend National Park seem to be the opposite of an ocean, but over the course of millions of years, the land that makes up Texas’ largest national park has been a warm and shallow sea and an inland floodplain. The inhabit...

EPA looking to grant local Environmental Ed Programs

The Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA) has announced that up to $3 million in funding for locally-focused environmental education grants will be available this week under the 2018 EE Local Grant Program. EPA will award three to four grants in each of EPA’s ten Regions, for no less than $50,000 and no more than $100,000 each, for a total of 30-35 grants nationwide. Proposals are due March 15, 2018. The Requests for Proposals will be posted on www.grants.gov later this week. In addition to other environmental topics, the 2018 EE Local Grant Program includes support for projects that reflect the intersection of environmental issues and agricultural best-practices, conservation of natural resources, food waste management, and natural disaster preparedness. Proposals are due by March 15, 2018. The full solicitation notices are at www.grants.gov and at http://www.epa.gov/education/ environmental-education-ee- grant-solicitation-notice . Educators may ...

Early-Morning, Super, Blue Lunar Eclipse (that neither blue nor that much bigger...)

A total lunar eclipse can be an eerie sight, as the Moon grows dark and red. The early morning of Jan. 31 marks the first total lunar eclipse visible in the United States since 2015; early morning risers across the central and western United States can see a total lunar eclipse before sunrise. Jan. 31 will also be the second full Moon this month, making it a “Blue Moon.” It is also right after the Moon's closest point in its orbit around Earth, qualifying it as a Supermoon! Here's Information from https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/usa/abilene about the Eclipse in our area: 4:51 am, Wed, Jan 31- Penumbral Eclipse begins Map direction West 270°, 32.2° above horizon 5:48 am, Wed, Jan 31 - Partial Eclipse begins Map direction West 277°, 20.6° above horizon 6:51 am, Wed, Jan 31 - Total Eclipse begins Moon close to horizon, so make sure you have free sight to West-northwest. Map direction West-northwest 284°, 7.9° 7:29 am, Wed, Jan 31 - Maximum Ecli...

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