The+Plan

=The Plan=

Before the Trip
 * Build a wiki page for the Midpark and Berea teachers to plan and store ideas for curriculum development
 * Skype Mindi into our classrooms to introduce the project and talk about being a researcher
 * Teachers will set up a moodle course for their class many activites during the trip will be conducted on moodle, many assignments, data sets, discussions will take place using moodle
 * Develop lesson plans for the start of the school year that **introduce** the research begin conducted onboard (scientific process and nature of science)
 * Using an electronic tool, (moodle, wiki, Cal-Echoes Website) organize and identify lesson plans for multiple science disiplines (Biology, Earth Science, Physics, Chemistry)
 * Develop a set of objectives for teachers to complete while on the cruise
 * Set up Twitter account so teachers can communicate to the students in real time what they are experiencing or what questions they have for the students
 * Research techniques/technologies to be used on board so that we may be able to participate as completly as possible in research and data collection during the trip and develop lessons that will best utilize data gathered.
 * Research Great Lake ecology so as to be able to apply Cal-Echoes finidings to similar trends in the Great Lakes for further lesson plan development.

During the Trip
 * Post videos and pictures to class moodle pages moodle during the cruse to start conversation and discussions in moodle forums
 * Help collect data
 * Learn how the reseach scientists use the equipement and possibly take video about each collecting technique
 * Help classify or idenfiy species collected
 * What ever else needs to be done that we can be involved with (spur of the moment stuff)

After the Trip

Technology This will take place before, during and after cruise.
 * As data becomes available from the research, build lesson plans to utilize the research data
 * Contribute to the Cal-Echoes Website, including teacher-teacher discussion, teacher-student, student-student, and scientist- students
 * As data becomes available after the trip, connected or comparison data will be collected from local sources (Coe Lake, Lake Erie). Lesson plans will be developed for students to predict/ compare/ contrast data from marine and fresh ecosystems