The purpose of this course is to provide the middle school teacher with:

• a thorough understanding of several key concepts and processes of meteorology.
• the ability to effectively present the meteorology topics appropriate for the middle school science classroom.
• the tools necessary to develop a meteorology pedagogy using inquiry based learning in the middle school classroom.

Instructors

Frank Keimig
Manager, Climate System Research Center, Department of Geosciences
University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
http://www.geo.umass.edu/climate/keimig.html
frank@geo.umass.edu

Eileen McGowan
Instructor, Department of Geosciences
University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
http://www.geo.umass.edu/grads/mcgowan/
emcgowan@geo.umass.edu

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