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12 July 2007
Wow, we got to sleep in an extra half hour! Tina and Bob King started us off with a great presentation on how they took their learning from last year's SOR and brought them to their classrooms. Their main goal was to get kids to read and interpret data, which addressed both the National Education Standards and the Ocean Literacy standards. Tina worked with foraminifera, 40K living species and 60K extinct species. I was really impressed with how she was able to take very complicated information and adapt it for effective use in a 5th grade class. Great lesson that pulled kids into science and used real data! That's the key, getting kids making connection while using real data!
Next was some C3 time followed by more inquiry. Trevor Williams from Lamont-Dohrety had us looking at Antarctic cores and down-core logging and physical properties. He had an excellent PowerPoint with lots of "cartoons." Great connections for chemistry classes. Back to the lab looking at guess what, more cores. Debbie Thomas finished off the day discussing seismic waves. While we were back in the lab with Debbie, John Firth showed us some work that fascinated the group. Apparently he found traces of an ancient salt water Crocodilian on a guyot thousand of miles away from land. Great day, lots of learning, lots to absorb. This is cool!!!!!!! Reported by Mark McKay
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