Last Thursday I participated in SciREN Coast 2016, which is my third year participating as a researcher and second year helping organize and promote it. SciREN is a great event that brings North Carolina home-grown marine science (or in its sister event SciREN Triangle, all kinds of science) into the classroom. Essentially researchers develop lesson plans based on their research and teachers visit each one of them at stations throughout the North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores to discuss how to get more ongoing research into their classrooms.
In addition to making my lesson plan materials available both in-person at the event and on the SciREN Portal, I also host them right here on the blog. If you click on the icon in the upper left corner of the page, you’ll find a dropdown menu with a page titled Teaching Resources. There you’ll find all the documents, Powerpoint presentations, and data sets you’d need to use one of these lesson plans in class. There’s one using data from juvenile sandbar sharks acoustically tagged off Cape Hatteras, and another based on the shark survey I’ve been running in Back and Core Sounds for the past two summers. Feel free to leave any comments or questions about those lesson plans in the comments section on the Teaching Resources page.
And to give you a glimpse of the actual SciREN event (and hopefully inspire any researchers reading this to participate), here are some tweets from that night:
#SciREN set-up almost complete. The shark head is BACK! @SciREN_Outreach pic.twitter.com/IVejjXbxbB
— Chuck Bangley (@SpinyDag) February 18, 2016
Checking out the NC NERRS booth with @ejwoodwa supervising. #SciREN pic.twitter.com/s957PYbo69
— Chuck Bangley (@SpinyDag) February 19, 2016
Excited to talk with NC educators about different ways to use frogs in their classrooms! #SciRenCoast2016 #McCoyLab pic.twitter.com/nyQEZ5OH70
— Molly Albecker (@Island_Frogger) February 19, 2016
I’m at #SciRENCoast to talk about teaching aposematism. Conveniently in front of the poison frog display! pic.twitter.com/4QoAdwMAYb
— Adam Stuckert (@PoisonEcology) February 18, 2016
It’s the Paerl lab repping the ever awesome @UNCResearch t-shirt! #SciREN2016 pic.twitter.com/SO9s4rIfGl
— SciREN (@SciREN_Outreach) February 19, 2016
Best view in the house! Sea Turtle Camp & Hench lab PhD student Melissa Duval sharing their science #SciREN2016 pic.twitter.com/J1Dg8CKa0i
— SciREN (@SciREN_Outreach) February 19, 2016
NC State CMAST demonstrating their ROV! How cool! pic.twitter.com/lNZWyGLqRn
— SciREN (@SciREN_Outreach) February 18, 2016
Thank you to the 140+ educators who came from across #ENC tonight. SUCH amazing energy! Keep in touch! #SciREN2016 pic.twitter.com/eyWjdHABYn
— SciREN (@SciREN_Outreach) February 19, 2016