Karaganda region. Ecological Museum
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The Karaganda Ecology Museum was established 20 years back by local geologists, geochemists, and biologists who wanted to share their knowledge on the environmental issues of Central Kazakhstan and potential solutions with the public and authorities.
The main mission of the eco-museum is to promote environmental or eco-culture as an integral part of general culture in the Karaganda Region. It’s hard to separate eco-culture from, for example, civilized land use, hunting and fishing culture, eco-tourism or economic culture.
Today is quite hectic in the Karaganda Ecology Museum as it is from here where the international zoological expedition will start. Within the framework of the Kazakhstan Argali Conservation Initiative Project, IUCN experts and the staff of the territorial fauna inspections will go to Karaganda and Eastern Kazakhstan Regions to monitor wild animal populations in selected model sites. Special attention will be paid to mountain rams or argali. In the course of the next 3 weeks, the Outdoor KZ permanent TV expedition will accompany the researchers in their journey and adventures.
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130. Kanysh Satpayev’s monument
The name of Kanysh Satpaev (1899-1964), prominent scientist, the first president of the National Academy of Science, the first Kazakh Academic, was well known not only in Kazakhstan, but also in the outside countries.
He was the first geologist in Kazakhstan who did geological explorations of base metal ores in the Central Kazakhstan. That was a copper field of Ulutau-Zhezkazgan, which was one of the biggest sites in terms of volumes of stocks of ores. Satpayev was one of the founders of Soviet metallurgy and the starter of metallogeny science in the Soviet Union.
People who knew Kanysh Satpayev personally appreciated his deep knowledge in his field of study as well as his high intelligence.
The monument of Kanysh Satpayev is located in front of National Technical University named in his honor.
His bronze sculpture is a symbol of Kazakhstan science. The authors D.Dosmagambetov and O.Prokopyeva made a very characteristic portrait of professor. He is depicted deep in his thoughts with this coat fluttered in the wind.
His vivid face is lit with a soft smile. He stopped just for a moment but stayed still in eternity.
STEM/Space Educator Resources
Dr. Laurie Sullivan and NASA educator Steve Culivan provide lessons plans for teachers to get their students engaged in space and STEM topics.
U.S. Embassy Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan organized this program and the Nurorda Bilim school served as the host for this training session directed to English and STEM teachers, government officials, and American Corner coordinators. Dr. Sullivan and Culivan provided ideas and best practices for incorporating NASA and other free space resources in the classroom to raise interest in studying STEM.
In addition to the on-camera audience at the school, educators gathered to watch the program and submit questions online at six American Corners in Kazakhstan (Nur-Sultan, Karaganda, Kostenay, Oskemen, Pavlodar, Petropavlovsk).
Kazakhstan plays a key role in the space industry and is currently the only launch and retrieval site for astronauts going to/from the International Space Station (ISS). As such, Kazakhstan is uniquely situated to play a lead role in this type of program.
Speakers:
Laurie Sullivan
Dr. Sullivan is the Project Discovery teacher at K.W. Barrett Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia, where she facilitates the school’s participation in the NASA Explorer School program. Sullivan designs and teaches hands-on/minds-on science and interdisciplinary units; uses technology and expository writing to enhance the science curriculum; coordinates STEAM events; and leads science and technology clubs for students.
Her areas of expertise are STEM education with a focus on space; leveraging existing NASA resources in the classroom; instructional technology; teacher professional development; and working with special education and gifted and talented programs to advance student learning.
Steve Culivan
Culivan is a NASA STEM educator professional development collaborative education specialist at NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center. He develops and provides NASA STEM online and face-to-face professional development programs for in-service, pre-service and informal educators. An education specialist at NASA for over 30 years, Culivan has taught thousands of teachers and students about NASA exploration, missions, careers, and other STEM resources. He was the principal developer and writer of the NASA curriculum, Mass vs. Weight, and has been a member for other NASA curricula, including the Aeronautics educator guide, Mission Geography, Spaced Out Sports, and Food for Thought. Culivan has developed education investigations that he performed on the NASA Reduced Gravity Research Aircraft and was principal investigator for three education investigations performed by the astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS).
Dioptase
Amazing aesthetic Dioptase floater with 3 main crystals and smaller crystals around. The main crystal is beautifully terminated and measures 1.7 x 1.0 cm. The second largest crystal is bi-terminated, it measures 1.5 x 0.9 cm.
This stunning thumbnail is from the famous Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia.
2.3 x 1.8 x 1.4 cm
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