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Articles in the Fall 2012 issue of The Earth Scientist include:

• Discovering Careers in the Earth Sciences, by Geoff Camphire
• The Carbon Cycle Game: A Regionally Relevant Activity to Introduce Climate Change, by Joëlle Clark, Jane Marks, Carol Haden, Melinda Bell and Bruce Hungate
• The ELF: Building Climate Change Science Knowledge Through Hands‑on Activities, by Louise Huffman, Jean Pennycook, Frank Rack and Betsy Youngman
• EarthLabs – An Earth System Science Laboratory Module to Facilitate Teaching About Climate Change, by Tamara Shapiro Ledley, Nick Haddad, Erin Bardar, Katherine Ellins, Karen McNeal and Julie Libarkin
• Teaching Controversy, by Mark McCaffrey
• Lesson Plans and Classroom Activities from the Climate Literacy Ambassadors Community, by Margaret Mooney, Steve Ackerman, Galen McKinley, Tom Whittaker and Tommy Jasmin
• Predicting the Impacts of Climate Change on Ecosystems: A High School Curricular Module, by Vanessa Peters, Tanya Dewey, Andrew Kwok, George Starr Hammond and Nancy Butler Songer

The print version of this issue contains an Earth Science Week poster from AGI.

Articles in the Spring 2012 issue of The Earth Scientist include:

• Decoding Starlight: From Pixels to Images, by Doug Lombardi
• Ice Core Records – From Volcanoes To Supernovas, by Donna Young
• Transit of Venus, by Elaine Lewis, Sten Odenwald and Troy Cline
• Pulsating Variable Stars and the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram, by Donna Young
• Investigating Supernova Remnants, by Doug Lombardi

Articles in the Fall 2011 issue of The Earth Scientist include:

• Our Ever-Changing Earth – Celebrate Earth Science Week 2011, by Geoff Camphire
• Federal Agencies and Nationwide Partners Present the 2011 National Fossil Day in Hopes of Fostering Scientific Education, by Jason Kenworthy and Eva Lyon
• Classroom Activities and Supporting Resources for Understanding Climate Change – An Introduction to Earth’s Climate by Roberta Johnson, Sandra Henderson, Dennis Ward, Lisa Gardiner and Randy Russell
• Telescopes-for-Teachers T4T: Galileoscopes in Montana by Richard Jones
• Expedition 329: South Pacific Gyre – Subseafloor life by Joe Monaco
• Fire and Brimstone Continues to Shape Yellowstone Lake: Connecting Geology and Past Climates with Today’s Biodiversity by Susan Kelly, Lisa Morgan and Stephanie McGinnis
• Student Misconceptions: Where Did You Get That Idea? by Virginia Malone

Additionally the hard copy of this TES issue contains, for your classroom, two full color posters: one announcing AGI’s 14th Annual Earth Science Week, and the second announcing the NPS’s National Fossil Day.

Articles in the Spring 2011 issue of The Earth Scientist include:

• Episodic Tremor and Slip: Potential Clues to the Earthquake Process and How Faults Slip, Michael R. Brudzinski
• Episodic Tremor and Slip in a Middle School Classroom? Absolutely! Relevance and Kinesthetic Methodologies Merit Inclusion in 8th Grade Earth/Space Science Class, Roger Groom, Shelley Olds, Robert F. Butler and Jenda Johnson
• USArray Visualizations Show Seismic Waves Sweeping Across the U.S., Robert F. Butler, Christopher D. Hedeen and Roger Groom
• Understanding Earth Processes: Student Alternative Conceptions about Geophysics Concepts, Julie Libarkin and Emily Geraghty Ward
• A Big Squeeze: Examining and Modeling Causes of Intraplate Earthquakes in the Earth Science Classroom, Michael Hubenthal, Seth Stein and John Taber