The 13-week course is offered twice per year to selected participants. It focuses on the study of the atmospheric environment through the use of electronically transmitted weather data and learning materials combined with Study Guide readings and investigations. LITs, typically composed of three members, coordinate the selection and delivery of the course to approximately eight teacher participants each semester. Each team advertises the course availabilty, recruits and selects particpants, arranges and holds local meetings, individually mentors participants on course understandings and activities, and provides participant evaluations. Teachers of any grade level or subject who have an interest in promoting the teaching of weather across the curriculum may apply.
Many participants are earth science, middle school and upper elementary teachers.
Applicants must be willing to act as resource persons for other teachers and as advocates for promoting the use of electronically-delivered environmental data in schools. Request information and application materials for the next offering of the DataStreme course. If there is no LIT listed near you or in your state, inquiries may be sent to find out of a LIT is forming in your area. If you are readings this on-screen with your own equipment and you can print it out, you are essentially ready for DataStreme participation. The only other requirement is access to a facsimile machine for transmitting and receiving materials between you and your LIT mentor.