A Model for Youth Financial Education in Extension Involving a Game-Based Approach

University of Idaho Extension educators have developed a library of 10 game-based personal finance programs, collectively known as the Northwest Youth Financial Education project, and have made these programs freely available for Extension educators to use. The purpose of this article is to share highlights from an associated train-the-trainer event and the impacts of one of the 10 programs as it has begun to be implemented. The Northwest Youth Financial Education project serves as a model for effective and engaging youth personal finance education that can be easily implemented or replicated in Extension

Developing the Learning Games Lab Toolkit: Engaging Learners from Diverse Backgrounds in Game Design

Members within and outside game design and game studies communities have critiqued the lack of diversity in the fields. Encouraging school-age children and youth from diverse backgrounds is one approach to addressing this concern. New Mexico State University’s (NMSU) Learning Games Lab has developed a Toolkit that enhances children and youth’s interests in being game developers, knowledge and skill in reviewing games and digital media, and engagement in the game design process. By using teaching and learning principles based in Universal Design for Learning, culturally responsive education, and media literacy, the Learning Games Lab creates learning experiences that cultivate a sense of belonging in game communities and foster critical thinking and creativity for children and youth of diverse backgrounds

The Solar Dynamics Observatory

This volume is dedicated to the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which was launched 11 February 2010.  The articles focus on the spacecraft and its instruments: the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA), the Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE), and the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI). Articles within also describe calibration results and data processing pipelines that are critical to understanding the data and products, concluding with a description of the successful Education and Public Outreach activities.  This book is geared towards anyone interested in using the unprecedented data from SDO, whether for fundamental heliophysics research, space weather modeling and forecasting, or educational purposes. Previously published in Solar Physics journal, Vol. 275/1-2, 2012