Laura Dunbar IMCS - Rutger's University, Sea Girt Elementary School, NJ (grades 6-8)
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Laura Dunbar replied to the forum topic And she's off… in the group
MARE 8 months, 3 weeks agoWow! Jason, it’s beautiful! Thanks for posting the pictures.
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Laura Dunbar posted a new activity comment: 2 years, 1 month ago
In reply to: Lisa Schardien uploaded the file: There Aren't "Plenty More Fish in the Sea" to COSIA Activities ViewI can’t tell you how many times I’ve stood on the beach in Belmar and watched a trawler do its thing. Of course I never do get to see what is happening along the ocean floor. I really like your idea of letting students see what happens. And by-catch is something most of them don’t know about. I’m a tad concerned about how they are actually…[Read more]
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Laura Dunbar posted a new activity comment: 2 years, 1 month ago
In reply to: Kathleen Mallory uploaded the file: COSIA Activity Outline to COSIA Activities In addition to our Activity Sheet, we developed a basic outline for teaching. It’s very informal and meant as a tool to help us […] ViewReally neat sheet! A trick I learned while teaching is to layout the sheet so that I don’t have to “read” it ~ making it more like a long concept map / outline so that I could quickly glance down to see where I was and what came next. My favorite layout is as if I’d folded the sheet in half lengthwise and listed the major questions / topics…[Read more]
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Laura Dunbar posted a new activity comment: 2 years, 1 month ago
Yikes! I forgot something~ test out how to do the balloon into the solution part ~ I used too small of a container and the force of the air being released from the balloon created massive splashing EVERYWHERE!
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Laura Dunbar posted a new activity comment: 2 years, 1 month ago
Hi Dan and Mario,
You have a great topic! Please remember that most kids won’t have any background knowledge of molecules yet (not until high school) but most kids have heard of H20 and CO2 ~ with NO understanding of why. Also, are you saying there different forms of CO2 or just different sources?
I’m worried about how much talking is going…[Read more]
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Laura Dunbar posted a new activity comment: 2 years, 1 month ago
In reply to: Mike Griffin uploaded the file: Sustainable Seafood PowerPoint to MARE This is the PowerPoint show that we used to demonstrate the Rate-A-Plate activity using the Monterrey Bay Aquarium Seafood Guides. Feel free […] ViewHi Mike,
How’s it going? I’m trying to find the place where we bought seaweed from for the classification activity. Do you remember where we got it from?
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Laura Dunbar posted on the forum topic Schedule for Live Calls in the group
Ross Sea Connection: 2 years, 2 months agoThank you so much Sage for bringing this all together. My students had a wonderful time on their phone call to the ship. It’s hard to express here, we had 2 classes come in so 40 people crammed into my classroom. And they were listening intently. The PowerPoint slides that you put up during the [...]
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Laura Dunbar posted a new activity comment: 2 years, 2 months ago
In reply to: Deborah Ryder posted on the forum topic National Environmental Education Week Theme 2011 is Ocean Connections! in the group MARE: This is a perfect addition to the Rutgers Ocean Day lesson plans! Thanks for passing this on! ViewHi Deborah,
I’m so glad it came in handy. There is sometimes so much out there, it’s hard to wade through. I can’t wait to see everyone at Ocean Day! It’s just around the corner!
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In reply to: Hugh Powell wrote a new blog post Saying Hello and Goodbye at the Same Time in the group Ross Sea Connection: I woke up this morning to strange voices shouting. I was disoriented. Part of me felt like I was still […] ViewHugh ~ I’ve been “tagging along” on expeditions for the past 12 years and this one was, by far, the best ever. Your wonderful blog entries and Chris’s amazing photos gave us an insight I’ve never experienced before. My students often marveled at your “voice” (the words you chose to use to describe things and how you put them together). …[Read more]
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Laura Dunbar posted on the forum topic Ross Sea Press Release in the group
Ross Sea Connection: 2 years, 3 months agoI’m having 4 different classes follow the blogs (5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th). We check in daily with a quick update, and then when I can schedule the mobile computer cart, the students read through the blogs on their own. I’ve been doing the labs with only one class (7th) ~ that’s the class that [...]
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Laura Dunbar posted on the forum topic Slideshow to Josh Kohut’s interview in the group
Ross Sea Connection: 2 years, 4 months agoOh no! The pressure, the pressure! I forgot that I gave them the warm-up “If you could talk to your favorite quarterback for 10 minutes ~ what would you ask him?” For some reason that helped them understand a little better. They are so excited when their question gets answered!
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Laura Dunbar posted on the forum topic Slideshow to Josh Kohut’s interview in the group
Ross Sea Connection: 2 years, 4 months agoHi Claire, Thanks for the idea for the Cartesian divers… it sounds like you had them thinking and having fun! I’ve had my fair share of questions ~ my rule of thumb to my students is “if you can google it, then don’t ask it…” I do a lot of modeling about what makes a [...]
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Laura Dunbar posted on the forum topic Slideshow to Josh Kohut’s interview in the group
Ross Sea Connection: 2 years, 4 months agoHi Donna, Thanks! I haven’t run any of the lessons yet with my students. If you have already, and know of any tweaks or improvements, or even something I should say during the directions to help the students better understand, would you mind posting them? We’re having so much fun! I hope you all are [...]
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Laura Dunbar posted on the forum topic Slideshow to Josh Kohut’s interview in the group
Ross Sea Connection: 2 years, 4 months agoClaire,
I’m so glad you could use it! Thanks for letting me know…. it makes the time I spent putting it together seem more worthwhile. ~ Laura -
Laura Dunbar started the forum topic Slideshow to Josh Kohut’s interview in the group
Ross Sea Connection: 2 years, 4 months agoHi, I put some pictures to Josh Kohut’s interview to give my students a better understanding of what they were listening to. I showed my 5th – 8th graders today, and they seemed to like it. For some reason my school filter won’t let me post it to the documents part of this group, so [...]
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Laura Dunbar posted on the forum topic Live Blogging in the group
Ross Sea Connection: 2 years, 4 months agoThanks Sage! What place it the best to send questions to them? Facebook? On the Ross Sea Connection blog comment area? Here?
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Laura Dunbar commented on the blog post Sights and Sounds of Summer in the South 2 years, 4 months ago
Thanks for the beautiful pictures! They’re a great addition to your blog. I so appreciate the details you’ve included. We all wish Ashley Needham success in his quarter campaign. I cringe when I think of how cold you’ll soon be. We’ll be here ~ waiting to hear from you and hoping you have a wonderful [...]
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Hi Laura, Claire, and “friends”!
The students and I have been so busy keeping up with the blogs from the scientists that I did not have time to write back sooner. Cherri Worth and I have done the water mass lab, cartesian diver lab, and we looked at phytoplankton and algae under microscopes. Our students loved making the cartesian divers. We…[Read more]