A New Wave In Education -- Bringing The Ocean To The Classroom
- Date:
- March 16, 1998
- Source:
- National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration
- Summary:
- Students may be able to dive into their schoolwork in a whole new way with an educators' guide NOAA is providing to teachers. More than 55,000 teachers around the country have received a Year of the Ocean Educators Guide that gives seventh- and eighth-grade science teachers new ideas for teaching about the ocean.
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Students may be able to dive into their schoolwork in a whole new way with aneducators' guide NOAA is providing to teachers.
More than 55,000 teachers around the country have received a Year of the OceanEducators Guide that gives seventh- and eighth-grade science teachers new ideasfor teaching about the ocean. The United Nations has declared 1998 theInternational Year of the Ocean to educate the public about the important rolethe ocean plays in our daily lives.
The educators guides are designed so that teachers can fit the class activitiesand projects into existing curricula.
Students can learn:
- what hurricanes are and how to prepare for them
- how nautical charts work
- how many kinds of fish there are and what is being done to keep the speciesalive
- how oil spillls and other ocean pollution, including runoff from schoolyards,affect the ocean
- how fish get from the ocean to the plate
- how the ocean serves as a watery highway for trade, from pirates of yore topresent-day traders
- how to have a career involving the ocean
The goal is to get students to know and love the ocean so that they grow intoadults who want to protect the ocean.
For more information, contact:
Joyce Gross, 202-482-8360
UPCOMING EVENTS:
--March 16-17: JASON project
--March 23: WORLD METEOROLOGICAL DAY
--April 24: EARTH DAY Visit the web site at www.yoto.noaa.gov
--May-September: EXPO 98: "Oceans, A Heritage for the Future, Lisbon, Portugal
-- June 8 -OCEANS DAY
-- July 1-14 - THE GREAT AMERICAN FISH COUNT
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