Project wrap-up: 6 June 2013

Please join us in Room 206 at lunch for

• snacks
• poster presentation of data analysis of water-monitoring data by CL, JS, and AD
• informal talk on conservation connections to project - thank you, Dr. Pete!
• game: The Great Plankton Race - the slowest wins!

Project meeting: 24 May 2013

Meet in computer lab

• Project data analysis or other write-up
• AP presentation on dunes & marshes

Final meeting - Thursday, 6 June - Room 206

• Celebration lunch
• snacks
• sharing data analysis 
• informal talk on conservation connections
• game: The Great Plankton Race

Project meeting: 10 May 2013

Meet in computer lab

• Project data analysis or other write-up
• Plan for The Great Plankton Race - what materials needed?

Next meeting - Friday, 24 May - computer lab

• All Grade 11s on science field study next week

Project meeting: 26 April 2013 - meeting canceled today

No meeting today! (sci teachers have meeting at lunch)

• Project tasks wanted now:
• Manipulate raw data sets in Excel, generate graphs & calculate statistics
• Write up the project Design with background research & footnoting
• Artistic projects - photographing field sites, lab demo
• Write a project glossary

Project news!

• Data-loggers were retrieved from the Aselton Park harbor docks & Veterans Park culvert this week by the Grade 11 IB Biology HL classes.
• Loads of data - time to analyse!

Next meeting - Friday, 3 May - Room 206 - 11.55a-12.20p - be on time!

• Conservation connections to project
• Project wrap-up: The Great Plankton Race, project presentations & celebration lunch

Project meeting: 12 April 2013

Meeting agenda 12 April 2013

• Special event: Science talk by Joan Muller, Education Coordinator of the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve - thanks for visiting with us, Joan!
• The importance of environmental stewardship
• Map of the Waquoit Bay reserve
• Research at the reserve
• Salt marsh sustainability & sea level rise (S Corman, Spartina growth study)
• Opportunities for students
• see Tidal Quest (paper flyers at school)
• Thank you to RT for representing WOW! at the CAS Showcase

Project news!

• Data-loggers will continue over Spring Break at the Aselton Park harbor & Veterans Park culvert until just past Earth Day.
• Grade 11 IB Biology HL classes will retrieve the loggers & download final data sets.

Next meeting - Friday, 26 April - Room 206 - 11.55a-12.20p - be on time!

• Getting the WOW project into the classroom!
• Possible project tasks

Project meeting: 5 April 2013

Meeting agenda 5 April 2013

• CAS reminders - RT to represent WOW! at CAS Showcase
• Wednesday, 10 April, 6-8pm, held at West
• CAS 'group reflection' today
• HOBO logger demo [field site or lab, weather-permitting]
• Info on Friday, 12 April meeting - special outside guest speaker
• Possible project tasks

Project news!

• Data-loggers continue at the Aselton Park harbor & Veterans Park culvert

Next meeting - Friday, 12 April - Room ??? - 11.55a-12.20p - be on time!

• RT to share a brief reflection on the CAS Showcase
• Special event: Science talk by Joan Muller of the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve - WOW! (pun intended)
• Please 
  bring your lunch, and arrive on time, as close to 11.50am as you're able to - you're hosts!  Expect to stay a bit longer, perhaps.  Thank you!

Project meeting: 29 March 2013

Meeting agenda 29 March 2013

• Water cycle presentation & discussion
• Thanks ML!
• Thanks for joining us & sharing great experiment ideas, Mrs. M!
• Remember to reflect on CAS!
• RT will represent WOW at the CAS Showcase
• Wednesday, 10 April, 6-8pm, held at West
• Possible project tasks
• Completed tasks are in blue to help you keep track of CAS bits

Project news!

• Interim data have been collected for the first 12 days of the continuous project [18-29 March].
• See Week 4 data links - thanks Mrs. J & JS for downloading the data at the field sites directly onto a laptop, so the loggers could get right back to work
• There appeared to be a 'battery' error with the data-logger at the Bismore Park site, but data appear to have been logged.  
• Data-loggers are continuing at the Aselton Park & Veterans Park culvert

Next meeting - Friday, 5 April - Room 206 - 11.55a-12.20p

• We tried to end earlier, but you all have too much good science to share, discuss & question!
• HOBO logger demo [field site or lab, weather-permitting]
• CAS reminders - RT run through CAS presentation?
• Info on Friday, 12 April meeting - special outside guest speaker

Project meeting: 22 March 2013

Meeting agenda 22 March 2013

• Lunch meeting canceled...
• snow - delayed opening - and MCAS English
• See you all next Friday!
• Remember to reflect on CAS!
• Would anyone like to represent WOW! at the CAS Showcase?
• Wednesday, 10 April, 6-8pm, held at West
• Thank you, RT!
• Sign-up for project tasks - talk with us & do!

Project news!

• New data-loggers are in the water - collecting data every half hour

Next meeting - Friday, 29 March

• Student presentation on the water cycle
• Discuss investigations for biology, physics & maths

Project meeting: 15 March 2013

Meeting agenda 15 March 2013

• Special 'science talk'
• Sturgis East science teachers will share knowledge with us on how water temperature and light intensity are important from the perspectives of the different sciences - cool!
• Thank you! Mrs. M (biology); Mr. W (chemistry); Dr. Pete and Mrs. G (environmental systems & societies); Mr. C (physics)
• Please bring your lunch, and arrive on time (try for 11.50am)
• We plan to begin promptly at 11.55am
• Expect to stay a bit longer, perhaps
• CAS annoucements [JS]
• Remember to reflect!
• Anyone for the CAS Showcase (Wednesday, 10 April, 6-8pm, held at West, participation counts as CAS, too)?
• Sign-up for project tasks & get started

Project news!

• New data-loggers have been tied & tagged - thank you, JP!
• Data-loggers will begin data collection today

Next meeting - Friday, 22 March

• Some Grade 11 students and dr.g. will be away on a field-trip
• Please see Mrs. J or check the blog later for project updates

Project meeting: 8 March 2013

Meeting agenda 8 March 2013

WOW! project: updates & sign-up list for project tasks (big & small)

Please stop by Room 206 during break on Friday to review the sign-up list.  

• You should add only your initials
• See Mrs J & dr.g. with questions
• Reflect for CAS, if relevant
• Thanks again for your help!

Next meeting 
Special event: Science talk will be given by four Sturgis East science teachers about how water temperature and light intensity are important from the perspectives of the different sciences - cool!

• Thanks-Mrs M (biology); Mr. W (chemistry); Dr. Pete and Mrs. G (environmental systems & societies); Mr. C (physics)!
• Please bring your lunch, and arrive on time, as close to 11.50am as you're able to, please, as you're hosting guests!  Expect to stay a bit longer, perhaps.  Thank you!

Project meeting: 1 March 2013

Meeting agenda Friday 1 March

WOW! project: updates, student presentations, next tasks

How are we doing in terms of working toward our project goals (see 15 Feb mtg notes)?

• Water-monitoring pilot data  on temperature & light have been collected for three weeks to date (updated 7 March); 2-3 days for the first two weeks, in two of the three project sites—Veteran’s Park culvert & Aselton Park docks
• Note as of Thursday, 7 March: This week’s HOBO loggers are presently still in the water due to poor weather conditions—dr.g. doesn’t wish to slip into the bay—the loggers will be removed when the skies clear over the weekend; it’ll be interesting to see how the data changes over this week given the storm…hhmmm….this idea could lead to a side project on analyzing WOW! water temperature & light data along with weather measures that could be collected from reliable sources…any takers? Let dr. g. or Mrs. J know.
• Toward understanding the need for stewardship of estuaries, during last week’s project meeting, CL gave a presentation on the properties of water.  The PowerPoint will be uploaded to the blog—check it out!
• Mrs. J shared ideas about developing interdisciplinary science & mathematics connections; she suggested mathematical, statistical & graphical analysis that’s possible with the scientific data on temperature & light that the HOBO data-loggers collect; we collect on-going data through the day and overnight, every 30 minutes—what will you do with the data (we’d like everyone by the end of the project to carry out some analysis, with student presentations & an end-of-project celebration, too)

Next meeting

• Half-day next Friday, 8 March, so we’d like to meet briefly at break for sign-ups for next volunteer tasks
• Try to come to Room 206 at break, 9.45-9.55a.  
• If you can’t make the meeting, please check the blog later on for the sign-up list, once students have had the chance to sign-up at break; the sign-up file should be editable, so you can add you name to any task for which there's need.  Thanks for volunteering!

Organisational meeting: 15 February 2013

Estuaries Stewardship Project

• Sponsored by the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
• TOTE: Teachers on the Estuaries program

Project goals

• Monitor local water systems for light & temperature
• Understand of the need for stewardship of estuarine systems
• Develop interdisciplinary science & mathematics connections

WOW! project core team [go-to students in green]
Gr11 IBBiology

• HL1 F: BG - ML - SM - SD - JP - RT - TW
• HL1 G: OB - LB - QC - ZH - GJa - CL - ML - JS

Gr10 Physics/Algebra

• AA - AP - DS

Meeting agenda 15 February 2013

• WOW project overview (PPT)
• WOW project blog
• Group needs 
• volunteers for secretary (to take meeting notes) & blog co-editors (to update & design blog)
• secretary: RT 
• blog co-editors ZH; SM
• Collect student email addresses
• Everyone should join the blog as a follower

Over February break

• Mrs J & I will collect pilot data at the Hyannis Harbor from Tuesday 08.00h -Thursday 08.00h
• Students
• Visit one section of the NOAA Estuary Education website to learn background information to share at our next core group meeting
• NOAA Estuary Education website
• An estuary is
• Interactions
• Estuarine dynamics
• Life in an estuary
• Estuaries & you

Next meeting

Friday, 1 March - Room 206 - 11.55h - 12.15h

• Please bring your lunch and arrive on time