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Scientist-Educator Partnerships to Enhance Rural Ocean Literacy

COSEE-Ocean Systems has been collaborating with scientists and educators since 2005 to enhance ocean literacy among rural and inland audiences. This overview highlights their goals, workshops, engagement of researchers, and development of transferable activities for maximum impact.

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Scientist-Educator Partnerships to Enhance Rural Ocean Literacy

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  1. Scientist-Educator Partnerships to Enhance Rural Ocean Literacy ^ Annette deCharon & Medea Steinman University of Maine Amy Holt Cline University of New Hampshire COSEE – Ocean Systems (OS)

  2. Overview • Since 2005, COSEE-Ocean Systems has been creating & testing models of collaboration • Goals include: • Reaching rural & inland audiences • Engaging ocean researchers • Creating transferable activities for maximum impact

  3. Rural & Inland Audiences • Through its workshops, COSEE-OS has made strides reaching rural & inland audiences: • 48% of 125 educators from 25 states were rural

  4. Engaging Researchers • Goal • Increase the capacity of scientists to efficiently translate their research into compelling and relevant content for various audiences • Methodology • Help deconstruct knowledge into concepts to create “concept maps” • Thus far, trained 30+ scientists to concept map, • Recently, 66% said they use COSEE-OS tools

  5. Engaging Researchers • Evolution of one scientist’s concept maps • Original:

  6. Engaging Researchers • Digital version of original map:

  7. Engaging Researchers • Consensus map created with educators:

  8. Engaging Researchers • Who created this “consensus map”? • Dr. Fei Chai & three educators from rural areas:

  9. Engaging Researchers • Educators felt concept mapping helped them: • Think through topics learned at workshop • Share ideas / communicate with scientists

  10. Transferrable Activities • The first activity you will do today is based on our recent publication: • Goal is to use physical sciences inquiry to connect with ocean topics

  11. Transferrable Activities Let’s do the density activity!

  12. Transferrable Activities • Important to tie “hands on” activities to other background resources: Another great resource - NASA Aquarius http://www.cosee.net/aquarius/education-outcomes.html

  13. Transferrable Activities • Important to tie “hands on” activities to other background resources:

  14. Thank you! • If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact us: • Annette deCharon <annette.decharon@maine.edu> • Medea Steinman <medea.steinman@maine.edu> • Amy Holt Cline <holt.cline@gmail.com> • Please check out our website: • http://cosee.maine.edu

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