Welcome to Project ATMOSPHERE On-Line

Overview

Project ATMOSPHERE is one of the American Meteorological Society's education programs, supported by the National Science Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, AMS and AMS member contributions, that promotes studies in the atmospheric sciences at elementary, middle and secondary school levels. It is designed to encourage teachers to use the science whose data and products are most frequently reported to the public in classroom learning activities across the curriculum. Its main goal is to promote interest and literacy in science, technology, and mathematics at the precollege level.

Project ATMOSPHERE emphasizes the following:

• the training of pre-college teachers in selected atmospheric science topics; more information
• the production of instructional resource materials, and
• the dissemination and implementation of these materials through training seminars conducted by peer trainers - pre-college teachers trained as AMS Education Resource Agents or AERAs.

Project ATMOSPHERE also makes available for sale, carefully selected, classroom tested material. A list of such material is available online at our educational materials page.

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Last updated 16 March 2005