ECHO THE BAT HITS THE STANDS!
Recent issues of the Washington Times and Science magazine featured =93Th=
e
Adventures of Echo the Bat,=94 an interactive WWW site for middle school
students and teachers.
The Net Watch column in the April 30th issue of Science magazine listed
Echo the Bat as a HOT PICK! The article said, =93Remote imagery might see=
m
a bit complex to explain to kids, but this site pulls it off with
satellite images that help tell the story of a bat tooling around
Arizona's ecosystems. Aimed at middle school students, the site folds in
lessons about the electromagnetic spectrum, ecology, and more.=94
The =93Adventure of Echo the Bat=94 also appeared in Joseph Szadkowski's =
Web
Wise column in the May 23rd (page D-5) Washington Times, which included
an article with two large pictures of the site!
The U.S. Geological Survey=92s Biological Resources Division, in
cooperation with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center=92s (GSFC) Laboratory
for Terrestrial Physics, launched the Echo the Bat web site in 1997 to
introduce remote sensing science to young children. Ginger Butcher,
Science Systems and Applications, Inc (SSAI)/GSFC leads the project. It
was one of the top products included in the 1999 NASA ESE Education
Products Review, receiving the highest rating of =93Outstanding=94 and
recommended for broad distribution nationally.
For more information, see <http://imagers.gsfc.nasa.gov> or contact
Ginger Butcher at <ginger@ltpmail.gsfc.nasa.gov>.
EL NINO PUDDING
'El Nino pudding', a great activity and delicious treat, and its link to
the global climate event are now staged on the highly acclaimed NASA
children's site; SpacePlace at
http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/topex_make1.htm.