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CWRU's Center for Science and Mathematics
Education will launch its newest JASON voyage with explorer Robert
Ballard this summer. This is the fourth year the University has
been a partner in the project.
Teachers can board the adventure, JASON
XIV: From Shore to Sea by attending a teacher training workshop
for the year-long multimedia, interdisciplinary, standards-based
curriculum. Workshops take place from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. August
13, September 28 or October 26, with a special global positioning
system and technology workshop August 14 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30
p.m. at CWRU.
Teachers need attend only one workshop to
participate in the program that will engage teachers and students
in the exploration of the terrestrial and marine ecosystems that
extend from the California coastline to the waters of the Channel
Islands Marine Sanctuary and Channel Island National Park.
Throughout the year, classroom activities
and online communications with other schools in the country participating
in JASON will expose children to the geology and geological history
of these ecosystems, the history of the maritime culture in the
coastal regions, native Chumash history and culture, means of
survival, scientific research methods, watershed studies and comparisons
to Lake Erie's coastlines. JASON activities span the disciplines
of the life sciences, earth and space science, physical sciences,
oceanography, geography, social studies, English language arts,
mathematics and the fine arts.
The yearlong program will culminate in live
telepresence broadcasts at CWRU between January 27 and February
7, 2003.
The workshop is sponsored by Martha Holden
Jennings Foundation, the Charpie Family Foundation, Ohio SchoolNet
and CWRU.
A registration fee of $85 is required and
includes lunch. An additional $35 fee is charged for those interested
in the technology workshop.
To register, contact Kathryn Kwiatkowski,
JASON Project coordinator, at 368-5075 or kmk21@po.cwru.edu.
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