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Annual Report for Richard Jones
January 15, 2002 - January 15, 2003

Continued Collaboration with Research Team Members

Type of Interaction / Outcomes / Dates / Locations / Parcticipants: Listed as co-author of paper presented to Polar Regions Conference of AMS
Opportunity to be part of published research paper

Oct to Dec 2001
Internet
e-mail contact with past PI, requests for images and data to use with students and looking at another opportunity to do research with the same team.
Imagesa and data shared with me and "we are looking at funding" for future projects
Opportunity to be part of published research paper

Oct to Dec 2001
Oct to Dec 2001
Internet
e-mail contact with past PI, requests for images and data to use with students and looking at another opportunity to do research with the same team.
Imagesa and data shared with me and "we are looking at funding" for future projects

Has a member of your research team visited your classroom in the last year? Yes

2. Community / Colleague Outreach

Transfer

How are you sharing your research experience with your colleagues, district, community, etc? Besides presenting my slides and web site with my students and the students of other teachers in my science department, I have been using the data collected while on the ice to give real data to my students and to one of the math teachers students. We are also fortunate this year to have a Jason "Argonaut" attending our 9th grade and this has given my web site much more use by the 9th grade earth science teachers. Again, TEA has provide easier access to scientists than Jason often does.

In addition to my own school and the schools of my two local TEA-Associates, I have made presentations to the Elenentary Students of Graff Elementary School, and the Gifted Students from West Elementary (335) in Laurel, MT to the Westend Kwainas (125), the Montana Geological Society (35) and in August the faculty of The Terry Montana Schools (54). This presentation was part of a full day Professional Development workshop that I presented to them on "Opportunities beyond the classroom"

I also made two presentations to teachers at the St. Louis NSTA in March of 2001

TEA Collaborative Learning Group

Name: Twila Michel

Active? No

Contact Hours: about 60 hours

Name: Mary Kidder

Active? Yes

Contact Hours: 35 hours over the past year

Name: I have a new person in Northern MT

Active? No

Contact Hours: Only e-mail contact so far

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

Associates Network

Number of Associates in local network: 3

Type of Interaction / Outcomes / Dates / Locations / Parcticipants: Presented to elementary students from the kindergarten since they were new to the school. Showed slides and answered questions about "Waddelsworth's Adventure at the South Pole". After meeting with three classes, I met with Twila Michel to discuss development of her sixth grade curriculum. She an I have met weekly during the school year since my return from the Pole in Jan of 2001.

November 19, 2001
Rosepark Elementary
Presented to the entire school population, 348 students and 24 staff, at the request of Mary Kidder. Mary moved to a new school this year and this afforded an opportunity to present to yet another school. One hour of slides, followed by about 40 minutes of questions.
Mary and I set up addition times to meet to help her with her First Grade Unit. In addition to this I gave the teachers another access point to "Polar Researchers" Rosepark is parcticipating in this year's Jason Project and have had so trouble getting responses from the Jason folks. They found that the TEA folks were much more accessible November 19, 2001
Rosepark Elementary
Presented to the entire school population, 348 students and 24 staff, at the request of Mary Kidder. Mary moved to a new school this year and this afforded an opportunity to present to yet another school. One hour of slides, followed by about 40 minutes of questions.
Mary and I set up addition times to meet to help her with her First Grade Unit. In addition to this I gave the teachers another access point to "Polar Researchers" Rosepark is parcticipating in this year's Jason Project and have had so trouble getting responses from the Jason folks. They found that the TEA folks were much more accessible

Presentations and Real Audio Sessions

Have you presented to your local board of education this year? Yes

3. Classroom Transfer

Activities Development

Title: Just Bead It

Description:
Comparison of color intensity of UV Sensitive Beads in Billings and in Antarctica

Title: The Story of Waddelsworth Penguin

Description:
An activity for first graders that gives them an opportunity to write one line of a story about the adventures of waddlesworth

4. Other TEA Activity Involvement

ECW Gear Monitoring for Northwest.

Booth Duty at NSTA in St.Louis, Two presentations to teachers at NSTA

Presentations to schools and civic groups in Billings and the surrounding area