We at Virginia Sea Grant are currently writing our strategic plan, which will guide our programming over the next 5 years. We have broken our plan into several pieces focusing on all sorts of marine-related topics, including Coastal & Ocean Literacy. As a part of our plan writing, we gathered a group of Virginia education […]
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Send a Letter Across the Atlantic Ocean
Looking for a cool way to get your students involved in ocean exploration? This spring, classrooms can submit a letter and become part of a historic mission to cross the Atlantic with a robotic underwater glider.
Communicating Observing Systems Science… formally or informally?
This week the Rutgers component of COSEE NOW was pleased to have two of our colleagues from COSEE CA visit to discuss a NOAA funded project to create an ocean science curriculum for grades 3-5. It is especially exciting because the product will be carefully sequenced to the ocean literacy principles and will be commercially […]
Have a few hours? Check out Google Ocean
By now everyone has heard that Google recently released its latest and greatest version of Google Earth (version 5.0) complete with an abundance of ocean “stuff:” shipwreck information; video clips; you can even rate kite surfting spots. But what all the articles and news reports have neglected to tell us is that you can spend […]
Jacks of All Trades
Today I was reviewing the big flip chart paper notes from our recent COSEE NOW Storytelling workshop. It seems like a good idea at the time, to use these giant pieces of paper to record the great ideas that are generated in brainstorming sessions. As I spread the paper out like a giant map over […]
RTD vs. Archived data
We, Virginia Sea Grant, are currently in the process of revising our strategic plan. This new plan will guide our research, extension, communication and education initiatives over the next five years. During a “listening session” we held here at VIMS yesterday, I had a very interesting conversation with VIMS Physical Sciences professor, and VIMS’ Virginia […]
Got Gadgets?
Greetings OOS educators! One [big] thing that drew me to ocean observing systems and keeps me interested are the gadgets! Gliders, ROVs, giant radar towers, satellites…observing systems have it all. I’m willing to bet that if you were to poll the world’s OOS scientists, of course they would say “the science” as their number one […]
What is Your Story? Storytelling in the OOS Community
Things are moving along for COSEE NOW. We had a very successful workshop at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore MD where we discussed storytelling as a communication tool. Andy Goodman, who is a communication consultant who works with a variety of non profits through the U.S., gave a compelling hands-on program about storytelling best […]
Using OOS with Standards
You too can use ocean observing system data despite teaching a standards-based curriculum!
Greetings and salutations
Hey COSEE NOW subscribers! I am a Marine Education Specialist with Virginia Sea Grant and a COSEE NOW partner. One of my roles is to produce activities and ideas to help teachers integrate ocean observing and real-time data into their classrooms. Check out my profile for more info. I am looking forward to posting my […]