{"id":66495,"date":"2022-08-05T10:19:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T15:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=66495"},"modified":"2022-08-05T10:19:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T15:19:19","slug":"noyce-teacher-leaders-collect-air-quality-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=66495","title":{"rendered":"Noyce Teacher Leaders collect air quality data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During an add-on day in conjunction with the annual Noyce Summer Summit in June, former Fort Hays State University Noyce Teacher Leaders received training on air quality initiatives thanks to a National Science Foundation grant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\n\u201cLearning Where We Live: A Focus on Air\u201d Workshop, held on the FHSU campus,\nprovided air quality initiative training to math and science teachers from\nrural districts in Kansas. The training, facilitated by Dr. Paul Adams, FHSU\nGLOBE Partner Lead and Trainer and Dean of the College of Education, included\nair quality experts via Zoom. Dr. Kevin Czajkowski, University of Toledo, and\nDr. Margaret Pippin, NASA Researcher, focused on the interconnectedness between\nthe air we breathe and events taking place hundreds of miles away. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PM2.5 Purple Air Sensors, the first to\nbe provided to schools in the state of Kansas, were provided to six former FHSU\nmath and science majors who currently teach in high-need Kansas middle and high\nschools. Teachers included Katie Flax, Lakin Werth, Kole Clarke, Nicole Voss,\nand Karisma Vigerney. The sensors, located in Oakley, Colby, Ransom, Lyons,\nPratt, and the FHSU campus, are used to observe particulate matter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With\nthe launch of the NASA TEMPO satellite on air quality scheduled for December\n2022, NASA is engaging professors, teachers, and students from the U.S. to\nlearn more about air quality issues. Sensor data collected by Noyce Teacher\nLeaders will be used in conjunction with the satellite mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During\nthe workshop, Czajkowski and Pippin discussed how data from the Purple Air\nSensors could be used to engage students in the classroom. Key to the benefits\nof the data is understanding how measurements are related to weather events,\nclouds, wildfires, and other environmental issues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLearning\nabout the Earth as a system provides our teachers with the tools to enrich the\nworld of their students as they research what is happening in their backyard,\u201d\nAdams said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur\nNoyce teachers are leaders in their schools,\u201d Stramel said. \u201cAs math and science\nteachers, they have formed this special bond. I always think science and math\nare all around us. We don\u2019t just do it in isolation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nNoyce Teacher Leaders will meet again during the fall semester to share ideas\nabout how the sensors and the data collected have been used in their\nclassrooms. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS During an add-on day in conjunction with the annual Noyce Summer Summit in June, former Fort Hays State University Noyce Teacher Leaders&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66496,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66495\/revisions\/66496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}