Projects

Class Projects

Photo: Students and Teachers measuring lake ice

Circle Calendar

This overhead circle calendar, designed by White Mountain teacher Cheryl Pratt,is a big hit with her young students and with other teachers! . Cheryl uses this circle calendar to show the phases of the moon, student and Elder birthdays, the Earth revolving around the Sun, and much more! She shared this idea with us at our December 02 follow-up meeting in Anchorage, complete with all the materials necessary for us to make calendars ourselves. Thanks to Cheryl for this great idea and effort. Click here for directions..

Why Is It So Windy in Wales?

Teachers and Students in Wales Teachers Sue Yates and Geraldine Ongtowasruck (OLCG '02) and their middle school students in Wales, Alaska have gotten a great start on their inquiry project! Besides all the work they did in the summer institute, their students have already started collecting GLOBE Atmosphere data, Elder Pete Sereadlook (pictured here with teacher Sue Yates and students Marissa Oxereok and Charlene Heavner) has talked with all the students in the school, and they are keeping an inquiry bulletin board posted for questions and research. According to Sue, Elder Pete's visit was "...so awesone. The students were taking notes like crazy and we all had a good time." For more information, check out Sue's article on the Alaska Science Consortium site.

Team Teaching and Peer Tutoring

Teacher and students Teachers Betty Stroup (OLCG 2001) and Terry McCarthy, along with their 2nd and 5th graders at North Pole Elementary, Alaska are engaged in a dynamic atmosphere study! They are learning to work together as teachers and cross-age peers as they investigate clouds, the water cycle and GLOBE cloud protocols. They are doing lots of hands-on investigations and working on new ways to estimate and make sense of cloud cover percentages (which is no small feat for the younger students). If you want to know more, contact Betty or come to the follow-up meeting in December where she'll be sharing her process!

The Website for National Science Foundation Grant No. ES1-9910219

Last Modified on January 22, 2003 by Sidney Stephens