Back to School Commutes Webinar
2021-07-20 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
The Fall 2021 return to school presents a crucial opportunity to encourage students and families to use wellness-boosting ways to get to and from school, while helping reduce traffic congestion around schools.
Join the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) and the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) for “The Back to School Commutes Webinar”
What to expect:

Education and transit leaders throughout Oregon will share examples of ways they are innovating on SRTS.
Participants will have the opportunity to connect with coordinators to learn more about new resources to share with educators and school familes.

Augmenting Tribal History/Shared History Curriculum with Project Learning Tree Activities
2021-12-02, 2021-12-07
In this workshop, you will look at examples of how Project Learning Tree (PLT) activities can support students’ learning of the SB13 curriculum (Tribal History/Shared History Curriculum).
Participants will explore how PLT activities can support the interconnectivity of traditional knowledge with scientific understanding. We will include a brief overview of the Tribes of Oregon, and give examples of how to use PLT activities and SB13 together. Participants will have an opportunity to do some research on SB13 curriculum local to their areas and identify PLT activities that support those lessons and vice versa how SB 13 curriculum can support the understanding of PLT activities. All participants will receive a copy of the PLT Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity Guide.
Registration required. Offered at no cost to formal and nonformal Oregon educators. PDUs available. Substitute reimbursement available on teacher workdays.
Registration closes approximately 2 weeks prior to the workshop.

Virtual Lecture: Assessing Arctic Health with Gyrfalcons
2021-12-14
As predators and arctic specialists, Gyrfalcons are excellent indicator species for how climate change may be impacting habitat and food webs in arctic environments. During this virtual lecture, Michaela Gustafson will share her work with the Peregrine Fund to identify what landscape features are important to Gyrfalcons as they choose nesting sites and how climate change may impact this species and others over time. Michaela is a graduate student at Boise State University and has spent the last seven years conducting field research on raptors and other birds from Puerto Rico to Alaska.

Virtual Lecture: Astronomy Frontiers
2021-12-16
Astronomy is always on the move, a constantly changing landscape of knowledge, mysteries, questions and answers. In this virtual lecture presented by Dr. Shane L. Larson, research professor of physics at Northwestern University, we’ll discuss the tapestry of astronomical technology and knowledge 30 years ago, examine how our perceptions of the Cosmos have changed dramatically in the short time since then, and speculate wildly on what the future may hold.

Oregon's Fisher and Marten
2022-01-19
In your travels across Oregon, you may have seen a marten. Or was it a wolverine? Or…maybe it was a fisher?
Well, if these questions ever crossed your mind, this is the webcast for you!
On January 19th join guest biologist Dr. Katie Moriarty, a research scientist with the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement (NCASI), will be digging into what, exactly, are fisher and marten, how to tell them apart, what their current habitats are, and why they’re so important in the ecosystem. You’ll also learn about some of the threats they are facing today and what can be done to help.
Make sure to RSVP to learn more about these ferocious and fuzzy mammals and their role in Oregon. You won’t want to miss this webcast!

Virtual Program: NASA’s Lucy Mission
2022-01-20
Join SNCO’s very own JPL/NASA Solar System Ambassador Paul Poncy for a special virtual program on NASA’s LUCY Mission. Paul was in Florida at the historic launch of the probe. NASA’s Lucy mission is the first spacecraft launched to explore the Trojan asteroids, a population of primitive asteroids orbiting in tandem with Jupiter.
SNCO members receive 15% off registration
