{"id":28673,"date":"2020-04-28T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=28673"},"modified":"2020-04-28T11:39:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T16:39:03","slug":"professor-to-host-science-story-time-with-apsu-geosciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2020\/04\/28\/professor-to-host-science-story-time-with-apsu-geosciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor to host \u2018Science Story Time with APSU Geosciences\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-324279\" title=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Austin-Peay-State-University-APSU.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" width=\"250\" height=\"64\"\/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; In order to help provide a fun, educational opportunity for K-5 students and free time for our student-parents to complete their online course materials, Austin Peay State University (APSU) Professor Dr. Christopher Gentry will host \u201cScience Story Time with APSU Geosciences\u201d via Zoom at 1:00pm Wednesday, April 29th, 2020.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_488647\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APSU-Dr.-Christopher-Gentry.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-488647\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-488647\" title=\"Austin Peay State University Professor Dr. Christopher Gentry. (APSU)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APSU-Dr.-Christopher-Gentry-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University Professor Dr. Christopher Gentry. (APSU)\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-488647\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Austin Peay State University Professor Dr. Christopher Gentry. (APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Dr.&nbsp;Gentry&nbsp;will read three books and lead age-appropriate discussions about how these books relate to our lives in Middle Tennessee and his job as a geographer.<\/p>\n<h4>The books are:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cOh Say, Can You Say What\u2019s the Weather Today?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI Can Name 50 Trees Today!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIf I Ran the Rainforest.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The webinar is free and open to Austin Peay State University families at the following Zoom (on the web, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=us.zoom.videomeetings\" >Android<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/zoom-cloud-meetings\/id546505307\" >iOS<\/a>&nbsp;devices) link:&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apsu.zoom.us\/s\/92799271542\" >https:\/\/apsu.zoom.us\/s\/92799271542<\/a>. Children do not need to have the books to participate. If you do not have access to a computer or an internet connection, you can join via phone by calling 1.312.626.6799 and use the Webinar ID: 927 9927 1542.<\/p>\n<p>Due to restrictions with the Zoom platform this webinar will be limited to 500 simultaneous connections. Children and grandchildren of faculty and staff are also encouraged to join in the fun.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr.&nbsp;Gentry&nbsp;serves as the National Geographic Society\u2019s geography steward for the state of Tennessee, and he has been a faculty member of APSU\u2019s Department of Geosciences since 2008. Dr.&nbsp;Gentry\u2019s research interests include tree rings, the history of fire in our forested ecosystems and mapping technologies. He is also the parent of a Clarksville-Montgomery County School System elementary student.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN &#8211; In order to help provide a fun, educational opportunity for K-5 students and free time for our student-parents to complete their online course materials, Austin Peay State University (APSU) Professor Dr. Christopher Gentry will host \u201cScience Story Time with APSU Geosciences\u201d via Zoom at 1:00pm Wednesday, April 29th, 2020.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,262,8048,512,825,413,32746,1758],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-7st","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28674,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28673\/revisions\/28674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}