New Logo, New Look!

Upcoming Events and Professional Development Opportunities
New logo, new look!
You may have noticed GLBRC’s new logo, but we also recently rolled out a new template for our classroom materials.
 
Biofuels Sustainability:  Assessing Energy and Carbon Balance, has been renamed and repackaged as Life Cycle Assessment of Biofuels 101.  Please take a look at the new cover page design and activity layout.  The redesign should make our materials easier to read, download and use in the classroom.  We’d love to get your feedback as we work to convert our materials to the new format.
 
Upcoming Events and Professional Development Opportunities
Exploring Biofuels:  Five presentations at WSST, (Wisconsin Society of Science Teacher) annual conference, April 15-17! Topics include classroom materials on life cycle assessment, using fast plants, bioprospecting and biotechnology, and school-based field research.  Two of our teachers from last year’s research program will present as well as our professional staff.  Earlybird deadline for WSST registration is March 15.
 
Bioenergy Institute for Educators (UW):  an 8 day program for teams of educators focused on the process of creating biofuels and evaluating sustainability of different methods.  Run jointly with the Wisconsin Fast Plants program with an emphasis on inquiry instruction at the secondary level.  Rolling applications and admission until May 3.  Slots are filling up, apply soon!
 
Other events: For details on the events below, please visit our website calendar.
 
March 20—NSTA, National Science Teachers Association, Philadelphia, PA
 
April 10—Science Expeditions. Madison, WI
 
We encourage you to visit our website at least once a month to look for new materials we have posted. 
http://www.greatlakesbioenergy.org/education/
 
Feel free to contact us with questions or feedback at education@glbrc.wisc.edu or call 608-890-2828. If you know others who would like to be added to this list, please send us their contact information including name, e-mail address, institutional affiliation, city, state and day-time phone number.
 
GLBRC is supported by the Department of Energy and DOE Bioenergy Research Centers