Annual Report for Susan Klinkhammer
2000

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Field Experience

Were you in the field this season? Yes

Dates in the Field: May 14, 2000 – June 8, 2000

Number of Student E-mails: 125

Number of Teacher E-mails: 30

Number of Other E-mails: 28

Countries Represented: United States, Germany, Britain

Additional Comments: We received e-mail not only from school children and teachers, but also from the families of the scientists on board as well as crew members’ families.

Did you maintain a daily (or as often as possible) electronic journal while in the field? Yes

Is your journal complete? Yes

Continued Collaboration with Reasearch Team Members

Date: on going communication with Kelly Falkner

Location: Corvallis, Oregon

Type of Interaction: phone conversations, e-mails, and meetings
Kelly has been a great resource to help me process the research experience and the field experience on the Healy. She has been able to clarify procedures and work from the cruise as well as share the perspective that others had of our role as teachers while on the Healy.

ongoing communication with Janice Rosenberg
Corvallis, OR to Belmont, MA
e-mail and phone conversations
Janice and I have been in weekly contact since our field experience. We discuss our journals and possible revisions needed in them; share experiences that we are having with presentations; work together on producing powerpoint presentations; and discuss the activities that we are doing with children related to our Arctic experience.

Has a member of your research team visited your classroom? (usually first year) Yes

Classroom Transfer

How are you sharing your research experience with students? I have shown students powerpoint presentations detailing our Healy experience. These presentations vary depending on the grade level and curriculum that each parcticular group is working on. When I present the powerpoints, I also take time to do a demonstration activity and suggest an activity for the class to do. Several classes have used the journal entries from the Internet to find answers to questions posed and to better understand activities linked to them.

Mentoring/Collaborative Mentoring Team

Name: Hilary Schloss

Active? Yes

Contact Hours: 12

Name: Stephanie Hawkinson

Active? Yes

Contact Hours: 4

Name: Anne Marie Strangio

Active? No

Contact Hours: 4

Name: Dominic Cusimano

Active? Yes

Contact Hours: 3

Have you submitted an on-line mentoring report? Yes

Associates Network

Presentations and Real Audio Sessions

Have you presented to your local poard of education? (first year) Yes

Activities Development

Title: Mapping the Ocean Floor

Description:
We made boxes with Styrofoam ‘landforms’ in them. The boxes were covered, each box contain a different configuration of holes (data points) to help students discover what the ocean bottom ‘looked’ like.

Title: Salt solution separation

Description:
Using diatomaceous earth, gravel, and salt students made mixtures and solutions. Using various filtering methods they separated the mixtures as well as the salt/water solution.

Title: Fresh water icebergs

Description:
experimented to show that salt makes it difficult for water to freeze. When ice freezes it is fresh water.

Have these activities been submitted to the Web for posting? No

Activity:
Proposal accepted to speak at NSTA in St. Louis in March, 2001

ECW gear monitoring (alternate location)

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

Have you submitted 20 slides to the TEA Archive? (first year) Yes

Have you submitted 6-8 photos to the TEA Arichive? (first year) Yes

Release Days

Number of Release Days Covered by School/District for TEA Program: 4

Dates: November 3, 2000, November 10, 2000, November 17, 2000, January 8 and 9, 2001

Reasons for Release: web site work sessions and development of Arctic teaching unit

Approximate Daily Rate of Substitute: $150

TEA Meetings Covered by School/District

Equipment Provided by Institution/Corporation/District

Type of Equipment: Projection systems for showing computerized powerpoint presentations

Date of Purchase: use of equipment

Other Grants

Other Shared Costs

Presentation at NSTA in St. Louis, MO in March, 2001