CEC is a consortium of teacher from 14 western states dedicated to improving the quality of education in the rural, western, United States, and particularly the quality of math and science Education. CEC uses Big Sky Telegraph as the hub of their telecommunications network that allows the participating teachers to stay in contact with their trainers and peers that they have met at the Workshops.
Many students have little understanding or appreciation for the process of science.
I like to get my students involved in doing science, taking measurements, collecting data at the very beginning of the school year. Eratosthenes, a Greek mathematician, was the first to measure the circumference of the earth. He based his measurement of the earth on the assumptions that the earth was round and the sun's rays are parallel. He knew that at noon on the day of the summer solstice in Alexandria, Egypt, a vertical post casts a shadow. At the same time in Syene, a town directly to the south, a vertical post casts no shadow.