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JASON XIV: From Shore to Sea

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Georgia Connection     Technology Connection     Video or Animation     Teacher Tip

General websites and resources:

Story 1: Geology and Geography: Where Are We Going and Why?

Story 2: Channel Islands Culture: Past and Present

Story 3: Coastal Ecosystems: Land, Water, and Sea

  • Activity 3.1 Plumes and Blooms: Tree Rings of the Sea 
    • Plumes and Blooms project site 
    • Click here for a website that explains what phytoplankton are and how they are good indicators of change in their environment
    • Look at the map on p81.  Latitude and Longitude are reversed on the map.
  • Activity 3.2 How Does a Satellite Measure Phytoplankton in the Ocean?
    • Click here for a website that explains what phytoplankton are and how they are good indicators of change in their environment
    • Click here for a website that leads you through creating a spectroscope
  • Activity 3.3 Investigating Coastal Ecosystems

Story 4:Kelp Forest Ecosystems: Monitoring and Management

  • Story 4 Kelp information websites
  • Activity 4.2 Eyes on the Ecosystem
    • Teacher tip: Make sure you keep track of the number of adult kelp, juvenile kelp, abalone, red urchins, and purple urchins you use in your model for comparison of students' estimations
    • Teacher tip: You might consider making your model rocky as the ocean floor is; this could provide more realism for students
    • Teacher tip: The teacher prep section calls for 1 cup of dried kidney beans and 1 cup of black beans, this gives you approximately 445 and 1000 beans respectively. Cut back on the numbers  (120 black beans and 105 kidney beans) for a better proportion. You could also use grape Nerds candy to substitute the black beans as purple urchins.
    • Look at p105, procedure step 4.  Students are also estimating the population of red and purple sea urchins.  Add red and purple sea urchins to the first sentence.
    • This excel chart might be easier to use than the one in the book as it provides room for both the upper and lower quadrats and includes space for the red and purple urchins.
    • Another Excel Chart for this activity:  full page and includes directions.
    • Kelp and Sea Urchins excel activity (Thanks, Jackie and Suzanne)
      • To adjust the gridlines for the Hare Rock data - Click on a horizontal gridline, right click, change major gridlines from 1 to 10.
  • Story 4 Kelp Venn diagram worksheet

Story 5:Pinnipeds: Monitoring and Management

  • Activity 5.2 Pinniped Diving Dynamics
    • All About Pinnipeds
    • Introducing Pinnipeds PowerPoint
    • Teacher tip: To eliminate as many variables as possible:
      • make sure the clay is equally divided and measure so all groups/students get the same
      • make sure each student/group gets the same type and size of paperclip and string
    • Teacher tip: Have students predict before hand which shape and animal will have the fastest descent rate
    • Teacher tip: The directions for the water tube create a leaky water tube - duct tape seems to work well in stopping some of the leakage. Make sure you have a tub or bucket to contain the leakage.
    • Teacher tip: Introduce the research story and the activity with a short excerpt from chapter 11 of The Island of the Blue Dolphins
    • Interactive Excel spreadsheet for data compilation (Thanks, Jackie and Suzanne)
    • Before beginning the activity, ask your students about diving related experiences (you will be looking at the diving abilities of pinnipeds in this activity)
      • How many of you scuba? How many of you snorkle? How many of you swim?
      • How long can you hold your breath?
      • How deep can you dive unassisted? With snorkel? With scuba gear?
    • Pinniped Diving Information (Thanks, Venetia!)

Story 6:Conserving Our Natural Resources: A Balancing Act

PDA's and GPS's with JASON XIV - a few ideas

  • Oral history - use a PalmPix camera with Go 'n Tell software to take photos and record stories as told by people being interviewed.
  • Data forms - create spreadsheets for data entry and graphing. (You can use Documents To Go, $49.95 from www.dataviz.com to transfer spreadsheets from handheld to computer.)
  •  eBooks - download a free reader and literature, like JASON XIV Novel Selection: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne.

Adapting JASON for Elementary Students

  • Kennesaw JASON website - scroll down to bottom of the page for the Elem adaptations (Thanks Nisa & Georgene)