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Annual Report for Michael Lampert
January 15, 2004 - January 15, 2005

Continued Collaboration with Research Team Members

Type of Interaction / Outcomes / Dates / Locations / Parcticipants: We have continued to collaborate with our ozone data. This year's data is posted on the web and the post-doc I worked with has made herself available for questions while in Antarctica for the next season. We have used the University of Wyoming website to predict where our balloons will land here in Oregon. Specifically I am now shifting my emphasis from ozone to ballooning and have made new contacts at the local university. I spent a day in August at the county fairgrounds talking with and observing balloon launches with the folks from the Oregon Space Grant consortium and we are now planning a balloon launch with GPS sensing at my school later this year.

Has a member of your research team visited your classroom in the last year? No

2. Community / Colleague Outreach

Transfer

How are you sharing your research experience with your colleagues, district, community, etc? I have shared my experience as the keynote speaker for the local Chemekatan outdoor club. This is an Oregon hiking group. I presented at their annual banquet in January, approximately 50 people in attendance. On my return, I was featured in a three page spread in the second largest paper in Oregon. This was front page center on the sunday paper where details of my trip and pictures were displayed. I was also the keynote speaker at the Oregon Science Teachers Association meeting in October. I spoke before over 300 science teachers about Antarctica. I have also given slide presentations to my own students.

TEA Collaborative Learning Group

Name: Steve Holman

Active? Yes

Contact Hours: 60

Name: Graham Dey

Active? Yes

Contact Hours: 60

Name: Chaz Malatesta

Active? Yes

Contact Hours: 60

Name: Gena Dwyer

Active? No

Have you submitted your TEA Collaborative Learning Group Annual Report? N/A

Associates Network

Number of Associates in local network: six

Type of Interaction / Outcomes / Dates / Locations / Parcticipants: I spent time with my students at the elementary schools teaching science. They go in teams to various antarctica associates and they have taught lessons such as ballooning or magnetism, or assorted other topics. In the ballooning lesson we had kids tie letters to smaller helium balloons and launch them. The lesson was about Antarctica and the science that goes on there, but also about the atmosphere, and what happens to balloons as they go higher.

Presentations and Real Audio Sessions

Presentation Date, Title, Number of Attendees, Etc. Jan 16 -19 Partners in Science Conference "The 2004 Ozone in Antarctica" 200 teachers as a poster session.

Jan 23 Chemekatan Outdoor Club "A teacher in Antarctica" 50 people at the annual banquet.

October 15 Oregon science teachers association "A teacher in Antarctica" 300 science teachers, I was the keynote speaker.

Have you presented to your local board of education this year? No

3. Classroom Transfer

Activities Development

Title: Ballooning Payloads

Description:
my students are launching balloons with science payloads and recovery them.

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

Title: GPS

Description:
my students are leaning to use GPS meters and doing geocaching

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

4. Other TEA Activity Involvement

We continue to write grants related to science research. This is marginally related to TEA in that it involves kids doing real science reasearch. Our latest grant is to look into the thumping characteristics of watermelons. To get this grant I showed that I was capable of running research projects from my background as a TEA associate.

Have you submitted all press-related materials concerning your TEA experience to the TEA Archives? No

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