HR: 1330h
AN: ED22B-1231    [PDF]
TI: Oceanographers in the Fifth Grade
AU: * Holland, C L
EM: cholland@seas.marine.usf.edu
AF: College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, 140 7th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701 United States
AU: Khoury, B
EM: khourybob@hotmail.com
AF: Frontier Elementary School, 6995 Hopedale Lane, Clearwater, FL 33764 United States
AB: Graduate students and recent doctorates at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science and K-12 teachers in Pinellas County, Florida come together in a new GK-12 OCEANS initiative to bring science to life in the classroom. In our particular partnership, we are working with four fifth grade classes and a combined fourth and fifth grade class at Frontier Elementary School in Clearwater, Florida. Our students have made weekly weather measurements, making their own instrumentation, building a data set, evaluating time series, and coming to understand the changing nature of climate and weather over the course of the school year. Additionally, they have conducted a number of shorter-term projects, engaging in hands-on, minds-on scientific research into many different aspects of the ocean environment, individually and in groups.
DE: 4299 General or miscellaneous
DE: 4504 Air/sea interactions (0312)
DE: 4599 General or miscellaneous
DE: 6605 Education
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting