The mission of the Center for Science Teaching and Learning (CSTL) is to engage educators in the quest for excellence, access, and equity in science teaching and learning. CSTL is a teaching, research, evaluation, and materials resource for science faculty and students across the NAU campus, for K-20 science teachers, and for informal educators statewide. The CSTL provides leadership in and coordination of science education professional development, academic programs, and outreach activities. CSTL is responsible for the recruitment, advising, and student teaching placement and supervision for secondary science teachers. The CSTL designs and implements evaluation plans for science education programs at the K-12 and university levels. The CSTL collaborates with the College of Education in support of science methods courses and serves as an extensive science curriculum resource center for the NAU community.

Ms. Clark served as professional development coordinator from 1994-2007, working on numerous grant funded science education projects.

[http://www4.nau.edu/cstl/]

The Flagstaff Area National Monuments include Wupatki, Sunset Crater Volcano and Walnut Canyon National Monuments. Ms. Clark with the assistance of Christine Bertko and Carol Kruse developed three traveling trunk programs for the monuments.

1)   Grades K-2: Stories Then and Now
2)   Grades 3-5: Ancestral Puebloans – An Investigation into Human History
3)   Grades 6-8: Hot Spots and Squeeze Ups - An Investigation into Earth’s History as told in the Flagstaff Area National Monuments

Ms. Clark also developed the Science in Our Parks program for these monuments, Hubbell Trading Post, and Petrified Forest National Park.

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The Northern Arizona Mesonet (NAM) educational resource was developed by teacher participants in NAM network. The purpose is to provide SCHOOL-MET and other interested educators with background information on meteorology and access to resources and lessons developed by School-Met teachers. The NAM weather data provide a tremendous opportunity for students to work with actual data. The lessons and other resources provide guidance on understanding, analyzing, and comparing the data collected in Northern Arizona. The background information provides an educational context in which weather and climate concepts fit into the school curriculum.

Ms. Clark compiled the educational resources and developed the educational resource website.

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