From the Ocean to the Lake: Introducing the Lake Erie Literacy Principles
Lyndsey Manzo  manzol@wcsoh.org
Strand: Teaching Ideas, Reaching New Audiences, Partnerships and Collaborations
Audience: 6-12, Administrators, Informal Educators

While the Great Lakes are an integral part of Earth's one ocean, their freshwater nature makes them chemically, geologically, and biologically unique from their saltwater counterparts. Outreach and extension personnel found that Lake Erie's coastal residents sometimes find it difficult to grasp the true meaning of the Ocean Literacy Principles (OLPs) given the differences between freshwater and saltwater ecosystems. NOAA agencies throughout Ohio collaborated to adapt OLP's to make them more tangible and relevant to citizens of Lake Erie's watershed.

Student-Active Stewardship Activities for the Classroom from COSEE:CGOM
Jessie Kastler  jessica.kastler@usm.edu
Mike Spranger, Dan Brook, Sharon Walker, John Dindo
Strand: Teaching Ideas, Conservation and Sustainability
Audience: 6-12

What do classroom debates, group and individual research, journaling, and development of Public Service Announcements have in common? These are all strategies that COSEE:CGOM teachers have used to help their students recognize connections between human lives and the ocean, and understand the importance of acting responsibly toward both global and local environments.

Inquiry-2-Insight: An International Environmental Science Collaboration
Julie Haws  jhaws@mpusd.k12.ca.us
Pam Miller
Strand: Reaching New Audiences, Conservation and Sustainability, Partnerships and Collaborations

Audience: 6-12, Informal Educators
The Inquiry-2-Insight project is collaboration between Stanford University and Goteborg University, pairing high school biology classes in California and Sweden through a social networking, web-based exchange to investigate environmental problems. Environmental issues illustrate how local action can have international implications, and direct student-to-student communication is a way to help students see the problems from differing points of view. The sister schools are using inquiry-based investigations and emerging technologies to investigate environmental problems and community perspectives to gain cultural awareness, develop investigative skills, and plan environmental solutions. The project promotes digital literacy and creates an empowering model for student communication across boundaries. 

From Ship to Stream: Ocean Observing and Water Quality Monitoring
Christopher Petrone  petrone@vims.edu
Vicki P. Clark
Strand: Partnerships and Collaborations, Exploration and New Discoveries, Inspiration and Empowerment
Audience: 6-12, Informal Educators

Teachers participating in Virginia Sea Grant's Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System CBIBS Inside and Out project will discuss the use of ocean observing and real-time data in the classroom and their experiences monitoring water quality with their students. The authors will also discuss the two professional development institutes conducted at the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences during June of 2007 and 2008. CBIBS Inside and Out was a two year project funded by the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office's B-WET grant program and was geared towards educating teachers about the CBIBS and how to utilize the system in their classroom.

Ocean Science in the 21st Century: Affecting a Sea Change in Marine Education in WA Coastal Communities
Karen Matsumoto  karen.matsumoto@seattle.gov
Strand: Partnerships and Collaborations, Teaching Ideas, Reaching New Audiences
Audience: 3-5, Informal Educators

How do creative partnerships between school districts, Washington coastal tribes, marine scientists, and federal agencies promote marine education and conservation and cultivate ocean literate citizens in the 21st century? This poster is based on my current work in the Seattle Aquarium's "Ocean Science," an ocean literacy program combining teacher professional development, an ecosystems-based classroom curriculum, beach kit with learning materials, and inquiry-based field trips. Ocean Science is a NOAA-funded cooperative program with the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary.

Creating Partnerships for a Successful Watershed Experience
David Christopher  dchristopher@aqua.org
Strand: Partnerships and Collaborations
Audience: 3-5, Informal Educators

How can an informal education institution collaborate effectively with school systems to ensure an optimal learning experience? What role does each play in the partnership? How does each help the other to meet its goals? Join educators from the National Aquarium in Baltimore as we share information about AquaPartners, an exciting 3-year watershed education program for Baltimore City students that includes classroom learning, hands-on activities, and field experiences. Discover how this successful program was created and what we have learned along the way.

Science, Students and Stipends, Oh My!
Aundrea Rue  arue@horrycountyschools.net
Karen Fuss
Strand: Partnerships and Collaborations, Exploration and New Discoveries, Reaching New Audiences
Audience: 6-12, College, Informal Educators

Learn about hands-on activities developed by graduate student/teacher teams through the Coastal Carolina University (CCU) GK-12 program. This program links marine and wetland studies to public school classrooms. You'll also learn more about the nationwide GK-12 program that brings current scientific research, via a graduate student, to pre-college classrooms in addition to providing summer field research to participating teachers. Even if you do not have a program near you, you'll still benefit from learning about educational resources available that were developed from '08-'09 GK-12 CCU teams.

Reef Missions: Exploring Underwater Habitats with Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Malia Rivera  maliar@hawaii.edu
Mark Heckman
Strand: Partnerships and Collaborations, Exploration and New Discoveries
Audience: 6-12

In partnership with MIT Sea Grants Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Lab, the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology has developed a series of three lesson modules targeting high school science classes that allow students to survey underwater habitats through the internet in real time with an AUV. Students characterize coral reef diversity, threats to coral reefs, and measure water quality parameters while learning the scientific process and inquiry. The Reef Missions project was funded by NOAA's Office of Education through the National Marine Sanctuary Program Pacific Island Region.

Designing Marine Education for Social Justice: A Researcher-Practitioner Partnership
Carrie Tzou  tzouct@u.washington.edu
Giovanna Scalone, Nini Hayes
Strand: Inspiration and Empowerment, Teaching Ideas
Audience: 3-12, College, Researchers

In this poster, we present the design of a marine education curriculum with a social justice focus. This curriculum is the result of a partnership between a university research effort and a fifth-grade teacher in an all-girls school that has broad goals of social justice and empowerment. The research effort is an ethnographic study of environmental education and how it interacts with youth's everyday lives. The curriculum is an interaction between the findings from the first year of the research project and the goals of the fifth grade teacher to re-design the fifth grade science curriculum around the ocean.

The Island, the Institute, and the Student: Experiential Education Using Authentic Research
John Tiedemann  jtiedema@monmouth.edu
Dr. Andy Danylchuk
Strand: Exploration and New Discoveries, Conservation and Sustainability, Partnerships and Collaborations
Audience: College, Administrators, Researchers, Informal Educators

Because marine science is interdisciplinary in nature, a learning-based approach that incorporates experiential education helps students better understand complex interrelationships and processes that are often difficult to conceptualize in a traditional classroom setting. The Cape Eleuthera Institute (CEI), in Eleuthera, Bahamas, offers a unique opportunity for students to learn about tropical environments and participate in research projects conducted by research scientists. Each January, Monmouth University undergraduates spend two weeks working side-by-side with scientists investigating bonefish spawning behavior, nearshore flats ecology, and patch reef ecology. These experiential education opportunities help students achieve an advanced understanding of concepts taught in traditional classroom settings.

NASA and Ocean Education
Annie Richardson  annie.h.richardson@jpl.nasa.gov
Strand: Exploration and New Discoveries, Partnerships and Collaborations
Audience: 3-12

How does NASA/JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) use satellite altimeters to accurately measure sea surface height, and how scientists use the data to study currents, and other physical oceanography features to help understand global ocean circulation and the ocean’s role in climate? Find out and receive an overview of some oceanography education products developed for JPL’s satellite altimeter missions. One of these products is the Jason-1 board game found at http://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/education/jason-1-game.html. The object of the game is to be the first to sail your research vessel from the Mediterranean Sea to Seattle while gaining the requisite discovery points. The board game doubles as an educational poster with classroom activities printed on the back.

What Can Be Done In Only A Day?: A Review Of The Evaluations Being Done On One-Day Field Experiences
Barbara Shoplock  bshop@bio.fsu.edu
Strand: Exploration and Discoveries, Conservation and Sustainability, Inspiration and Empowerment, Teaching Ideas
Audience: Primarily 6-8 but applicable to all

With ever decreasing funding, many schools have to shift from week-long camps, to shorter learning modules. However, there exists debate over whether or not a one-day experience can actually influence a student’s outlook on nature as well as science and how long-term this influence will last. In this poster, I will be presenting a synthesis of the current status of the evaluation of one-day field experiences, as well as presenting preliminary data collected from a one-day Marine Biology Field Experience operated out of FSU Biology.

Let’s Get Together! Effective Partnerships
Emily Pratt  epratt@healthebay.org
Linda Chilton, Maria Madrigal, Tara Treiber
Strand: Partnerships and Collaborations
Audience: K-5

What makes an effective partnership effective? How can all partners maximize their resources? Using the Key to the Sea Program as an example, this poster explores practices and shares ideas for collaborating with fellow marine science educators. Since 1999, Key to the Sea has provided watershed stewardship and environmental education for over 60,000 students and 2000 teachers. The University of Southern California Sea Grant, LA County Office of Education, Cabrillo Aquarium, SEA Lab, Roundhouse Aquarium, Santa Monica Pier Aquarium, and Heal the Bay all work together to offer a hands-on, interactive Kindergarten-5th grade program throughout Los Angeles County.