Moonsnail Project: A Scientific Collaboration with Middle School Teachers and Students
| Autor: | Patricia H. Kelley, Thor A. Hansen, Jack C. Hall |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Geoscience Education. 51:35-38 |
| ISSN: | 2158-1428 1089-9995 |
| DOI: | 10.5408/1089-9995-51.1.35 |
| Popis: | The Moonsnail Project engages middle school students in discovery and the process of science by making them collaborators with scientists in the investigation of a genuine scientific hypothesis. During summer 2001, teachers from 14 coastal schools around the U.S. (Alaska, Washington, Oregon, New Jersey, North Carolina, Georgia and Florida) learned about the ecology and paleoecology of marine ecosystems and how to involve students in the collection and analysis of data to document the spatial variation of moonsnail drilling predation. Thirteen of the fourteen participating teachers (93%) from the first workshop incorporated the Moonsnail Project into their curriculum and have actively pursued the collection of data for research. In essence, the students in this project are participating in a research collaboration with other participating schools and scientists, using their data to test existing hypotheses about naticid predation and hypotheses that they develop about marine ecology and paleoecology. Stude... |
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