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 three: "Spaceship South Pole." NOAA's satellite
and a cast of many dedicated people at the South Pole and around the
world worked very hard to bring you the:
We hope you not only learned something about astronomy at the Pole, and
what it takes to live at work at one end of the Earth, but were also
touched... inspired... enlivened by the participation of student
Elizabeth Felton in the repositioning of the marker of Earth's exact
geographic South Pole!
And now we are hard at work on the last adventure in our electronic
field trip:
Program 4: FROM POLE TO PLANET, January 19th, 13:00 EST (1:00 pm)
This program focuses on Antarctica as a laboratory for the entire
planet. New forms of scientific research under the extreme conditions
of Antarctica are revealing information about global processes
which are crucial for our future.
If the technology cooperates, and operational logistics permit,
we will be able to take you "live" to the U.S. Coast Guard ice-breaker
"Polar Star." The second live site at McMurdo will be outside
one of the original supply and staging huts built by the English explorer,
Robert Falcon Scott. These sites, new and old, mirror the program
content as we look backwards and forwards to understand this
very unique global laboratory.
You will see Lt. Katy McNitt use this instrument to take measurements
to compare with those made with her along her Dobson spectrophotometer,
which she works with at the Pole. (See teacher section below and on
our gopher for more information on how your students could use these tools.)
You will see a demonstration in our Maryland Public Television studio by
students who have been using data available on the Internet in their own
explorations of issues related to ultraviolet radiation, ozone and
stratospheric pollution. This is part of a NASA-supported Earth
Ssystems Science Community Curriculum Testbed Project, headed by
Michael Keeler and Farzad Mohootian out of Gonzaga College High School in
Washington, DC. Deaf students from the Model Secondary School for the Deaf
will also demonstrate how online resources equal the "playing field" for those
otherwise excluded from much scientific discourse.
We will also take you -- safely, on videotape -- to the site of
something that well may surprise many of you -- volcanic Mount
Erebus, which dominates the McMurdo skyline! As you'll hear, it is quite
active, and we'll explore its beautiful and instructive ice-caves.
Other live guests will be biologist Donal Monahan who runs a "University
on the Ice" for undergrads at McMurdo, and NSF's Representative in
Antarctica, Dwight Fisher, both of whom will be able -- along with Katy
McNitt -- to answer just about any question that students might have.
As in the previous programs, we will have a number of "on camera"
classrooms representing you and your students.
We will have Assu Casarotti, Larry McCalister and their students from
Hopson Middle School in Barrow, Alaska -- the northernmost school
district in the United States. They are as close to the North Pole
as our crew will be to the South Pole in Antarctica. They will help
us see the similarities among and differences between the two
poles of our planet.
Mary Donovan and her students from Gwynn Park Middle School, Brandywine
MD will be in joined by students from Gonzaga High school, and from
Gallaudet-affiliated Model Secondary School for the Deaf, DC who are
participating in the Earth System Science Community. They will be available
in the Maryland Public Television Studio and will have computers linked to the
Internet which might provide us a direct link to you!
And finally we will visit Canton Middle School in Baltimore MD LIVE
via a microwave link and find out how these students have been preparing
for their electronic field trip to Antarctica, with many interdisciplinary
activities, including writing poetry and debating issues involving
international collaboration.
And we'll announce the winners of the "Outhouse" Challenge Question and
their prizes. And we will invite viewers to participate in the future
by sending us their evaluation of this project.
We are experimenting with another way to increase the degree of
interaction on our electronic field trips.
We are going to make it possible for your students to ask questions of
our live guests from your computers before and DURING program four.
You can ask Katy McNitt questions about
Dwight Fisher will respond to questions about
Donal Monahan will field your questions about
Or if you have questions about a topic or issue in Antarctica that we
have not addressed in any of the previous programs, our guests will
be happy to respond to you.
We will try to include your questions in our final program in two ways.
The questions that we receive between now and the program, we will use
to guide decisions we are making about the program content. During the
program, we will have students in our studio location downloading your
questions and then reading some of them as part of the "live" interaction
with our guests in Antarctica. So send your questions and suggestions
and we will do the best we can to shape this final program to address
your interests.
The account is open now and we are looking forward to hearing from you.
We will try to respond to as many questions as we can during the program.
But as always, if you we did not answer your students' questions during the
broadcast, you can address them to our Antarctica Team for a personal
reply.
Online Update:
Here is a quick update on how our other online activities:
WEEKLY REPORT
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We hope that you are enjoying the journals from Lt. Katy McNitt from NOAA
whom you will meet in the fourth broadcast. She was part of the group at the
South Pole last week but she will be traveling back to
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*=====[_]L) This program will feature a comprehensive discussion
-'-`- of ozone and the consequences of changes in our global
environment that have been measured in Antarctica.
You will hear how years of data have provided conclusive evidence that
human-made Chlorofluorocarbons/CFC's in the stratosphere is one of the
causes of the Antarctic ozone hole. Kate McNitt will demonstrate a Total
Column Ozonometer that was sent to Antarctica and the South Pole by TERC,
one of our partners in LIVE FROM ANTARCTICA, and the originator of the
ongoing, initially NSF-supported GLOBAL LAB project.
NOTE: Subject to Shuttle missions and other major
priorities, NASA-TV will be rebroadcasting all of
the programs,one per day, over a four day period
from Jan 23-26, at 13:00 hrs Eastern. NASA-TV then
re-broadcasts each program on a 3-hour rotation
throughout the day.
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A conference for updates and journals (959 subscribers)
An interactive environment for teachers (242 subscribers)
Four Learning Centers for student exchanges (about 25 classes in each)
Students' questions to the Antarctic Team (over 350 questions)
Mail list for receiving all question-answer pairs (82 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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NOAA Lt. Katy McNitt will be answering last week's challenge questions on Ozone during the television program this week.
WHAT IS ANTARCTICA'S PRIMARY EXPORT?
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We hope you are enjoying reading the research journals. This week we have sent journals entries from:
Jim Sweitzer, CARA researcher, University of Chicao
Elizabeth Felton, student, Space Explorers, Chicago
April Lloyd, 3rd grade teacher, Burnley-Moran Elementary in Virginia
Katy McNitt, Lieutenant in the NOAA officer corp
Terry Trimingham, radio operator with ASA
April is also posting pictures of her Antarctica Adventure online for those that can access www sites. ------------------------- ---====| T E A C H E R S |=====--- --------------------------
NEW THIS WEEK:
*Internet Resources* Help Files
Many teachers involved in the Live From Antarctica project are new to the Internet or are just becoming familar with the vast resources available. As a service to educators and students one of our team members, Jan Wee, has organized some "Internet Help Files" including, the following three:
We hope that these files will help you find ways to integrate the Live from Antarctica broadcast with Internet resources.
Here are a two of the many comments we received on program three:
From Deanna Turco and Donna O'Callaghan from Alpharetta, Georgia:
"The program was fantastic! One and two were good, but this was outstanding. We especially enjoyed the many shots of the entire South Pole complex and its sweeping panorama on a beautiful calm summer day-perfect. Elizabeth Felton was delightful, and we got chills, not from the weather, as we watched her reposition the geographic South Pole. We enjoyed the human touch as we watched April Lloyd respond to questions from her third grade students. The projects and experiments being done by the students in Hawaii motivated us to plan to do more hands-on activities with our students. The questions asked by the students in Chicago provided more interesting information about Antarctica."
And from Macomb ISD and Jim Wenzloff:
Last evening the Macomb ISD hosted two classes Armada Elementary, Frank Miracola,teacher, and Cherokee Elementary,Mary Lou David, teacher at our site for the viewing of Program 3. We had over 50 students and 20 or more parents and teachers present. The kids were great and enjoyed the program. We also had an inflatable planetarium on site so the kids spent some time before and after the program exploring the skies. Mrs. David also helped the students construct "sky wheels" they can use at home to view the stars. Mr. Miracola lead a discussion after the broadcast and it was evident that the kids got a lot from the program. Today, a picture of some of the kids watching the program made the front page of our county newspaper. It was a great experience for the kids. Thanks to everyone who helped provide this great experience for kids.
We are eager to hear 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!
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