On July 26 and 27 over 20 people from nearly a dozen educational and media organizations particpated in a meeting to organize and develop the educational activities planned for the offshore New Harbor Expedition. The meeting was extremely successful in creating a rich and exciting set of activities and curricula for students from middle through high school level, which will be employed during the Antarctic expedition.
Activities include:
Live and canned video conferences from Antarctica to schools around the world.
Contact Global Nomads Group (www.gng.org) or the ARISE Program (http://andrill.org/education/arise) for more info on how to particpate.
Video blogs from Ms Brown (teacher accompanying the expedition), Mr Koss and Ms Balbas (QC students)
go to the ice stories website at www.exploratorium.edu/poles/index.php for how to be part of this.
Written blogs from Mr Koss and Ms Balbas (QC students)
go to the Reach the World website at wwwreachtheworld.org for more info
Weather data will be collected by a weather station at the remote field camp. These datat will be transmitted back to the GLOBE website (http://www.globe.gov/r) as well as be used by other orgs for after school teaching.
Audio conferencing will be carried out from McMurdo Station and the remote field camp. Go to the US Satellite Lab Inc. website at www.us-satellite.net for more information.
A film crew Global Nomads Group will also accompany us to document the expedition.
Each week there will be a different theme, complete with activities, curricula and interviews.
Weekly themes
Week 1—Theme: Antarctica Today, the basics
Scientist answers questions—possibly a live chat
Week 2— Theme: Climate Change, present, future, and past
Teacher and Scientists—live video conference
Week 3— Theme: Ice on the Move, where the ice is, how big, how it fits into the global geography, climate, etc.
Teacher and Scientists—live video conference
Week 4—Theme: Seismic Survey and how it helps identify drillsites
Teacher and Scientists—live video conference
Week 5—Theme: Reading Antarctica’s Rock Cores
Activity—from book—share online
Teacher and Scientists—live video conference
Week 6— Beyond this expedition
Additional learning about climate change
Teacher and Scientists—live video conference
Upcoming expeditions: IODP Wilkes Land, ANDRILL Coulman High drilling project, bases on the Moon, etc.
In early September the complete guide for students, teachers and schools to particpate in this exciting, high impact scientific expedition will be available on the ONH website (http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/offshore_new_harbor/index.htm).
