[NAEP] Fwd: Forest Canopy Electronic Field Trip

[Dawn Wiseman]

 >Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 16:08:40 -0800

>From: "Louise Baxter" <LBaxter at bainbridge.wednet.edu>
>To: <wsta at ikend.com>
>Subject: Forest Canopy Electronic Field Trip
>
>
>MUNCIE, Ind. - Ball State University's next Electronic Field Trip (EFT)
>will allow millions of students to explore the tree-top heights of a
>forest canopy of trees that stand 22 stories high.
>
>"Tree-mendous Technology" will air from Southwest Washington, March 7
>and will show how the green ceiling absorbs sunlight and rain, provides
>habitat for many organisms and houses the machinery of photosynthesis.
>
>The program is being developed by Ball State's Teachers College in
>partnership with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center,
>University of Washington, USDA Forest Service and Best Buy Children's
>Foundation, which funded the project.
>
>Rather than study the trees from the ground, students will get a
>sky-high view and explore the amazing environment at the Wind River
>Canopy crane near Carson, Wash. Students will get to go behind the
>scenes of this facility, one that is open only to research scientists
>and closed to the general public, said Mark Kornmann, director of
>Teachers College outreach services.
>
>"The old-growth forest we are featuring is awe inspiring, with many
>trees that have been rooted in the same spot for 500 to 700 years," he
>said. "Just as doctors couldn't do their jobs by looking at the lower
>third of patients' bodies, scientists can't understand what makes
>forests thrive unless they can examine whole trees - and this crane will
>give students an amazing, full-body view."
>
>The Wind River crane is the world's second tallest and has the most
>extensive research program of any crane operating in the world today.
>The crane, which is just like ones operating at construction sites in
>cities across the nation, was erected in the Gifford Pinchot National
>Forest by the University of Washington's College of Forest Resources and
>the USDA Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Research Station.
>
>Researchers have access to 300 trees and nearly six acres of old-growth
>canopy that's just 90 minutes from Portland for projects ranging from
>how trees absorb the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide to how Pacific
>Northwest Forests compare to those in the tropics.
>
>The live, interactive field trip will allow more than 15 million
>students, teachers and community members from 49 states to bring the
>tree canopy into their classrooms and pose questions to the show's
>experts. Viewers can register to receive the broadcast at
>www.bsu.edu/eft.
>
>The Electronic Field Trip Web site is a key part of the program and has
>been honored by the Center for Digital Education with a Best of the Web
>award and gold and silver awards at the 2005 World Media Festival. The
>site provides standards-based curriculum developed by teachers
>participating in the broadcast. The lesson plans cover geography, math,
>writing, art and more.
>
>There is one broadcast remaining in the 2005-06 Electronic Field Trip
>lineup:
>*       "Exploring Nature's Plumbing System: Caves of the National Park
>System" - Caves are much
>         more than nature's plumbing system. They are sites of
>exploration, adventure, shelter and     cutting-edge research. The
>National Park Service will show off a handful of caves, including
>         Carlsbad Caverns - the deepest limestone cave in the United
>States - and answer questions   about stalactites, stalagmites and even
>cave bacon. Carlsbad, N.M., April 25
>
>Electronic Field Trip partners include the National Baseball Hall of
>Fame and Museum; Space Center Houston/NASA; the National Park
>Foundation; Garfield and PAWS, Inc.; the United States Holocaust
>Memorial Museum; and five Smithsonian entities - The Environmental
>Research Center, National Museum of the American Indian, National Museum
>of American History, National Air and Space Museum and National Museum
>of Natural History.
>
>
>(Note to editors: For more information, contact Kornmann at (765)
>285-8106 or mkornmann at bsu.edu. For more stories, visit the Ball State
>University News Center at www.bsu.edu/news. For more about the Wind
>River Canopy Crane, visit
>www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/dec04/overthetop01.html.)
>
>
>****************************
>Dr. Louise Baxter
>Bainbridge High School
>9330 NE High School Road
>Bainbridge, WA 98110
>206-780-1272
>lbaxter at bainbridge.wednet.edu
>
>To Join Washington Science Teacher's Association (WSTA) click here:
>http://www.wsta.net

Steve Williams
smwillia at sd83.bc.ca
Salmon Arm Secondary


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