*** Please read "Telecomputing" and "Teacher" sections to see how
you can help determine the future of Passport to Knowledge.
The Live from Antarctica project has three basic components
We send you this newsletter each week to keep you informed of
our progress in each of these three areas.
We hope you saw program 4, "From Pole to Planet," the last live
video component of our electronic filed trip to Antarctica. We
are still taking questions to the scientists and we will be posting
field journals for the next week or so. But autumn is coming to Antarctica
and many of the scientists and our filming crew are going north
before the 24-hour nights of winter arrive in Antarctica. But
leaving the Ice leaves people changed. Consider this comment from the
Live from Antarctica film producer, Dean Rink:
"Nobody who comes here returns to the States without a
profound and significant change having occurred to some
portion of their world view. Antarctica is that powerful,
that beautiful, that inspiring of a place."
We hope that all of you were touched in some way by the magic
of this ice desert, this place of unbelievable extremes, our
global telescope to the universe, and our shared trust. While
Antarctica is home to none of us, it is a very special part of
our homeland earth. It stands as the birthplace of a
new era of international cooperation that we hope will shape
the way we treat our planet Earth.
Videotapes of the four programs are available for purchase from
Passport to Knowledge.
If your PBS station did NOT air the programs, you might call and ask
them to consider it.
To all who cooperated to make it possible to take students on this
unique adventure, we are grateful. And, to those who came along
on this adventure, WE NEED to hear from you. Read on...
We were very pleased to make it possible for you and your students to
help shape the content of our last program and to add their questions
to those that were asked "on-air."
We tried to build in answers to as many of the questions as possible
given the limited time of these live broadcasts. Any questions
that we did not address to your satisfaction can be redirected to our
on going student-scientist Q&A. This is no longer available.
Please remember to put unrelated questions in separate Email messages.
We will continue to accept questions through January 31. Although we
answer these questions as quickly as possible, a recent flood of questions
has slowed us down. Expect delays up to several weeks. As an alternative,
consider searching through our existing database for question/answer pairs
matching your interests.
Program Four: Focus on Ozone
On Program four, From Pole to Planet, we had a number of students
showing you the work that they did in the classroom and using
Internet resources to understand the issues of ozone depletion
and the harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation. You saw students
on the Internet and the students in Maryland work with an ozone
science kit available from TERC.
For more information on the TERC Ozone Kit:
The student papers described can be read at http://www.circles.org
Here are list of sources for exploring the major topics of program four
using the Internet resources including satellite images, data streams,
photographs, maps, charts and other forms of information. We are
posting more extensive lists on our web and gopher servers
(see below for addresses).
Web Sites:
Gopher Sites:
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Bruce Rigby or Michelle Gerrard
TERC
2067 Massachusetts Avenue,
Cambridge MA 02140
Phone (617) 547-0430 Fax (617) 349-3535
bruce_rigby@terc.edu or michelle_gerrard@terc.edu
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) http//www.noaa.gov
FSU Department of Meteorology http://thunder.met.fsu.edu
Greenpeace Internation Organization http://adam.greenpeace.org
Atmospheric Ozone http://icair.iac.org.nz/ozone/ozone.html
Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer(TOMS) http://jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov
The Daily Planet (University of Illinois) http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu
Weather Satellite Images http://rsf60.cl.msu.edu/weather
Volcano World http://volcano.und.nodak.edu
The Earth System Science Community Curriculum http://www.circles.org
GLOBE Project http://hpcc1.hpcc.noaa.gov/globe/globe.html
CIESIN Global Change Information Gateway
USGS Seismology Reports somalia.earth.nwu.edu
US Geology Survey Gopher info.er.usgs.gov
Earth Science Data Directory scilibx.ucsc.edu
Earth Science Resources gopher.fsl.orst.edu
EE-LINK- The Environmental Education Gopher nceet.snre.umich.edu
ECOGOPHER ecosys.drdr.virginia.edu
We need *YOUR* help.
The Live from Antarctica Team has worked hard to provide a very unusual adventure for you and your students. While you could look through the television screen to see us, we cannot use technology to look back at all of you. We don't know WHO was watching and HOW you used the materials we created.
We want to know how many people were with us on this journey and how useful this type of experience was in stimulating thinking and provoking learning. We cannot find this information without *your* help.
There is a Teacher and Student Evaluation Form
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PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE
Complete it and send it back.
We also will appreciate any letters, comments, suggestions and especially examples of student work (poems, letters, reports etc.).
Please mail to: Or Email to: PASSPORT TO KNOWLEGE P O Box 1587 ptkinfo@passporttoknowledge.com Morristown, NJ, 07962-1587
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Here is a quick update on how our other online activities:
A conference for updates and journals (1015 subscribers)
An interactive environment for teachers (261 subscribers)
Four Learning Centers for student exchanges (about 25 classes in each)
Students' questions to the Antarctic Team (over 500 questions)
Mail list for receiving all question-answer pairs (110 subscribers)
Weekly Challenge Questions for students
A searchable encyclopedia of question-answer pairs
Research Journals written by our Antarctic Explorers
Online Teacher's guide
More activities to extend program content in the classroom
Resource materials on Antarctica
Links to world-wide resources available on the Internet
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WHAT IS ANTARCTICA'S PRIMARY EXPORT?
The Answer Is: K N O W L E D G E
We hoped you enjoyed this riddle.
Research Journals
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We hope you are enjoying reading the research journals. This week we have sent journals entries from:
Roxanne Streeter. Communications Engineer
Elizabeth Felton, student at Northwestern University, Chicago
Terry Trimingham, radio operator with ASA
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We are eager to her your comments. Both positive comments like these and suggestions for ways of making future programs as useful as possible. Feedback is ESSENTIAL!! This is a collaborative project and we need and want your help!
Public money was spent on this project and we all share the responsibility of accounting for this resource. PLEASE let us know what you liked or did not like about this project.
We hope you will see evaluation as necessary part of the cycle of learning for you and for your students. To let your students know how important their comments are to us, we have put together a package of incentives.
On Feb. 28 we will randomly select 10 from among the completed sets of Teacher and Student evaluation forms and the lucky classes will receive:
So please send in your evaluation forms.
Classroom Resources:
You can order a printed copy of the Teacher's Guide from Passport to Knowledge.
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