Best Project Ever

Brief background of what is going on right now in the Oceans Department of NGS:

Oracle gave us a grant for Ocean Education grades 9-12
We have a budget left over and are developing lesson plans for a 3-5 program
I've been going over standards and familiarizing myself with both National Standards for ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies and Ocean Literacy Standards that NGS developed.
We have this extra budget to hire writers for the lessons

My new project:

• Brainstorm activities
  
• 3 Ideas per subject per literacy standard
• general ideas
• expand from ideas -> use mapping tools for ocean conveyor belt
• have the lesson ideas vary in difficultly -> based on 4th grade level
• Standard 1 (The Earth has one big ocean with many features)
• -> waves, currents, + ring of fire
  
• - waves will be easier to find activities compared to currents
• Standard 2 (ocean and life in ocean shape the Earth)
• -> erosion - is it a lab activity? calculations?
  
• - historic use of rivers + damning - pollution, un-natural drainage, pesticides, etc.
  
• Build a Frame Work for these activities
• Be CREATIVE - what would I have wanted to learn? What activities would be cool and exciting?

Julie and I will be brainstorming and having a meeting next Thursday to go over everything I find and help mold it better to then give to the writers

The better the materials and more information we can find the better the lessons will be developed

This project is going to be a lot of fun and I am really excited to start developing the frame work for some of the lessons that are going to be created!