Project Title: Arctic Alive!
Project Begin & End Dates: 4/01/03 to 1/30/06
Project Summary:
Arctic Alive! is a web enhanced learning environment that allows students
to "participate" in arctic research without ever leaving their classrooms.
Through the Internet, audio conference calls, and curriculum classrooms
will simultaneously investigate the Arctic, discover science careers and
research this unique and exciting world right along with the experts.
Project Level: Basic
Curriculum Fit: Arts, Business, Community Interest, Health and Physical
Education, History and Social Studies, Information Technology, Language,
Mathematics, Science, Technology, Vocational Education
Technologies Used: CU-SeeMe or Other Video Conferencing, Email, IRC
or Other Real-Time Chat, Web Based Discussion Forum
Project Email Address: janet@arcus.org
Registration Instructions:
Expeditions are ongoing and occur several times a year. Educators can
use the archieved materials for their classroom even when a live expedition
is not in progress. Technology used is very simple and easy to use by both
teachers and students.
Registration Status: Open
Registration Acceptance Dates: 10/01/03 to 1/30/06
Number of Classrooms: 100
Age Range: 5 to 19 years
Target Audience: Anyone
Project URL: http://www.arcus.org/arcticalive/index.html
Full Project Description:
Arctic Alive! developed and administered by ARCUS, is a distance-learning
environment that virtually transports students to unique and remote arctic
locations. Arctic Alive! utilizes the Internet as an interactive, real-time,
web-based education resource rather than an information site. Each theme-based
Arctic Alive program is designed to integrate effectively into the classroom
by complementing current curricula. A different arctic research issue is
highlighted each year. The overwhelming success of the program is attributed
to simple technology, ability to be adapted into current curricula, and
the opportunity for students to interact directly with the researchers.
Arctic Alive! is designed to be cross curricular and align with National
Education Standards in technology, science, and math. ARCUS focuses on
a different arctic research issue each year.
Objectives:
As a result of participation in Arctic Alive!: * Students will be encouraged
to explore scientific careers, will better understand current research,
and will be more aware of the Arctic as a critical component of the global
environment. * Educators will acquire a valuable new tool for science teaching
and teaching about in the Arctic, an area of the world about which there
is scant instructional material. * Indigenous peoples of the North will
gain an unprecedented platform for sharing traditional knowledge regarding
the lands they have inhabited for more than ten thousand years. * Practicing
scientists will be enriched by contact with future scientists of the 21st
century.
Project Sponsor: No Sponsorship
Project Contact Information
Janet Warburton - janet@arcus.org
Education Project Manager - Arctic Research Consortium of the United
States
http://www.arcus.org
Fairbanks, Alaska, US
Escola de Fairbanks, Alaska, USA, coordena esta atividade, que
poderá ter participação integral ( com audioconferência),
ou participação parcial (sem audioconferência)
Inscricões: 1 de janeiro até 30 de janeiro de 2006
Atividades do projeto: de fevereiro até 30 de janeiro de 2006
Tecnologias utilizadas: e-mail, CU-SeeMe ou outra forma de vídeo
e áudio conferência, IRC ou outro Chat em tempo real,
fórum de discussão via WEB.
Objetivos: diversas expedições são realizadas
ao Ártico, de onde cientistas e pesquisadores estarão se
comunicando com os participantes e discutindo ecologia. (não deixe
de ver os detalhes do projeto)
Áreas do currículo: Educação Física,
, Línguas, Matemática e Tecnologia da Informação,
Ciências, Estudos Sociais e Ecologia.
Número de classes no projeto: 100
Alunos participantes: de 5 a 19 anos
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