Live, Online, Offshore Antarctica Webcasts

U.S. Satellite invites teachers and classrooms to interact LIVE with the Wilkes Land Glacial History Project aboard the 470' drillship, JOIDES Resolution.

To participate, you need to be connected through 1) an internet browser; and, 2) a telephone (or through the computer's audio-VOiP) at the same time. Best practice has educators in a computer lab with students actively interacting on computers, or a teacher in a classroom with the video projected using a projector. Audio is best using a microphone to project a speakerphone. Alternatively, computer speakers will work.

Learn why scientists are aboard the IODP research drilling vessel JOIDES Resolution recovering sediment cores. What will the cores tell us about future climate and what discoveries may soon be made? International scientists sailing with Dr. Stephen Pekar, a Paleontologist sponsored by the National Science Foundation, are leading the mission whose goals include chemistry, life, Earth and physical science studies.

The webcast is about 45-50 minutes long.

• Option 1. Classroom participation. Each classroom will be issued usernames and passwords for student groups to interact and respond live to questions with an IODP scientist on up to 15 computers per classroom or computer lab. In addition, the classroom will need 1 loud speaker phone for the audio. Alternatively, each computer can choose to get audio through the speakers. There will be up to 100 total classroom computers used in each 2:00 pm Eastern Time session from schools all over the country. Teachers receive resources and a set of classroom lessons. Fee $25 per classroom.*
  
  
• Option 2. Teacher professional development. Interact and respond to IODP scientists from your home and receive 6+ brilliant classroom lessons that teach science in the context of Earth's polar regions. No Fee.

In 2008 over 15,000 teachers and their student participated in our first series of LIVE webcasts from Antarctica.

For an award-winning, climate change, classroom, standards-based curriculum opportunity and online student investigations sponsored by the National Science Foundation, click here.

Sponsored by: National Science Foundation (NSF Award 0732793)