HR: 0800h
AN: ED11A-0116    [Abstracts]
TI: Polar Researchers Engage K\-12 Students From Their Remote Field Camp Using an Interactive Website.
AU: * Pennycook, J
EM: jppenny@fresno.k12.ca.us
AF: Fresno Unified School District, 3132 E. Fairmont #6, Fresno, ca 93726, United States
AB: Researchers create an educational documentary for classrooms showing students how global climate change is altering the lives of Adelie penguins. Classes are able to view baby Adelie penguins grow on a daily basis as researchers post pictures of selected nests everyday onto an interactive website. Students maintain a virtual field journal gathering their own data and making predictions about these penguins and their ability to raise their young and survive in this harsh environment. The interactive website includes many opportunities for students to become engaged with the researchers, live from their remote field camp in Antarctica.
UR: http://www.penguinscience.com
DE: 0456 Life in extreme environments
DE: 0805 Elementary and secondary education
DE: 0815 Informal education
DE: 1630 Impacts of global change (1225)
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting