Annual Report for Kim Hanisch
January 15, 2004 - January 15, 2005

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Field Experience

Continued Collaboration with Research Team Members

Type of Interaction / Outcomes / Dates / Locations / Parcticipants: email communication(throughout year) - revisited swan data and king eider data; tried to work out way for my parcticipation in field research during summer of 2004, but schedules couldn't work; discuss opportunities to work together to finish write-up involving swan data and sharing with students; Robert Suydam also shares research he is involved in as well as interesting observations he makes in the north slope area - I share this with students throughout the year.

Has a member of your research team visited your classroom in the last year? N/A

Transfer

How are you sharing your research experience with your colleagues, district, community, etc? District: I have been a facilitator and presenter in a variety of district workshops and inservices throughout the year. Through the facilitation, we have been helping many science teachers become more comfortable with teaching the science process while using local (arctic) resources; we also discuss ways to modify lab activities to make them more ecologically and culturally relevant to our area. The science process is always the main focus. *total time: 10-12 hours Last school year, I was a mentor for our district mentoring program. Through this program, I worked with 3 teachers throughout the year. Helping them align their instruction with local resources, science process standards, and cultural relevance. Although our district no longer has this program, I am continuing my communications with these teachers. This year, I have stretched the mentoring to incorporate a second year writing/reading teacher as a team teacher in a junior high science class. The primary focus, or content, is the Aurora Borealis. We are sharing the class to help me incorporate more writing into the science teaching, and to help her with organization and classroom management. I am also the leader of the science content area curriculum committee. We are actively revising our district standards to represent our student needs in the context of nationally recognized science learning goals/standards. I am involved in writing a curriculum (specifially aligned with our district standards but also applicable to state standards) involving the content area of populations/ecosystems which will get students actively involved in field studies, developing a data base district wide, and then extension activities utilizing the data (cause - effect situations based on life history strategies of local populations)

TEA Collaborative Learning Group

Name: Eleanor Wirtz

Active? Yes

Contact Hours: 25

Name: Nicole Nowak

Active? Yes

Contact Hours: 35

Name: all Bering STrait science teachers

Active? Yes

Contact Hours: 10-12

Name: Marisa Frey

Active? Yes

Contact Hours: 20

Have you submitted your TEA Collaborative Learning Group Annual Report? Yes

Associates Network

Presentations and Real Audio Sessions

Have you presented to your local board of education this year? N/A

Activities Development

Title: Salmon in the Classroom

Description:
we are currently raising salmon - from egg stage to young fish stage; we utilize this process to study environmentally safe practices, water chemistry, development and the affects of environment on developmental rates

Has this activity been submitted to the TEA Web Site? No

Title: Tree Growth Rate Comparisons

Description:
We compared tree growth rate through core samples between our area and an area in Washington state; we also compared growth rates of trees on different sides of hills

Has this activity been submitted to the TEA Web Site? No

Title: Seagull Nesting Behaviors

Description:
students went out to locate nests, measure egg mass, size and # as seagulls began egg-laying in May

Has this activity been submitted to the TEA Web Site? No

Other Classroom Connections: We are involved in a state science program called Aurora Alive; we have also parcticipated in videosleueths through videoconferencing working with students at other sites and scientists at universities to use the scientific process to solve a 'problem'

Have you submitted all press-related materials concerning your TEA experience to the TEA Archives? N/A

Have you submitted 20 digital images to the TEA Archive with electronic captions? N/A

Have you submitted 6-8 photos to the TEA Archive? N/A

Release Days

TEA Meetings Covered by School/District/Corporation

Permanent Materials and Equipment Provided by Institution/Corporation/District for the TEA Program

Other Grants

Other Shared Costs

would like to attend NSTA in spring and help work at the booth or be involved in presentations