{"id":1561,"date":"2012-05-25T15:07:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T19:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1561"},"modified":"2012-05-26T13:04:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T17:04:08","slug":"climate-change-workshop-at-the-florida-aquarium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1561","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change Workshop at the Florida Aquarium"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Florida Aquarium,<\/a> in partnership with the University of South Florida’s NSF funded Coastal Areas Climate Change Education<\/a> (CACCE), is hosting a climate change education workshop\/meeting on Wednesday June 6 from 10AM to 4PM at the Florida Aquarium in Tampa. The meeting will continue to build a statewide climate change education network of science institutions and identify best practices and case studies in climate change education. Jonathan P Smith, VP of Florida Citizens for Science, will be speaking there and discussing the topic of climate change in K-12 science education. If you would like to attend this meeting as a representative of FCS, please contact Jonathan Smith ASAP at cyjonolds@aol.com.<\/p>\n

At the 2012 Florida Citizens for Science annual meeting, the board members adopted a policy and agreed to follow the example of the NCSE<\/a> in promoting the awareness of climate change in our public school system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Florida Aquarium, in partnership with the University of South Florida’s NSF funded Coastal Areas Climate Change Education (CACCE), is hosting a climate change education workshop\/meeting on Wednesday June 6 from 10AM to 4PM at the Florida Aquarium in Tampa. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-pb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1930,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1930","url_meta":{"origin":1561,"position":0},"title":"Evolution,Climate-Change makes the grade.","author":"Jonathan Smith","date":"July 9, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"A recent issue of Science Magazine, highlights the\u00c2\u00a0National Science Standards (NGSS). 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