Coastal Upwelling and El Nino: The Maury Project Style! (Centre Green Building 1, Room 3131)

The Coastal Upwelling is one of a series of modules produced by the Maury Project, an initiative of the American Meteorological Society and the United States Naval Academy. The Maury Project has been created to train a network of selected master teachers who provide peer training sessions in precollege physical oceanographic education. To support these teachers in their teacher training, The Maury Project develops and produces teacher's guides and other educational materials. The presentation would have three basic components. The first one would be an introduction or a narrative summary of the background information on Coastal Upwelling. The second component would be the Basic Understanding or the statements of principles, concepts and information. The basic understandings represent material to be mastered by the learner and can be helpful in devising learning activities, in writing learning objectives and test items. They are numbered so they can be keyed with activities, objectives and test terms. The third piece of the module is the activities. They provide learning objectives, directions useful for presenting and completing the activity and questions designed to reinforce the learning objectives. The final component is a brief list of references related to the topic and is given for further reading. Each participant will receive a copy of the teachers guide for Coastal Upwelling. In addition each person will make a Model Ocean Basin which will show the following objectives: 1. Demonstrate the causes of coastal upwelling and downwelling 2. Describe the influence of the prevailing wind and the Coriolis effect on upwelling and downwelling. 3. Describe the influence of coastal orientation on upwelling and down welling.

The second part of the workshops will be El Nino/La Nina: The Ocean-Atmosphere Connection.

This is taken from the DataStreme Ocean online course offered by the American Meteorological Society. This piece will be made of the following components: Driving Question Self-Assessment Education Outcomes Materials which would be El-Nino-La Nina Slide Chart Background on El Nino Hands on activity using the El-Nino-La Nina Slide Chart Showing the following: The Tropical Pacific During Long-Term Average Conditions The Tropical Pacific During El Nino The Tropical Pacific During La Nina

In summary the purpose of this would be to offer a workshop that would demonstrate to the participants one part of the Maury Project and a related part of DataStreme Oceans. Both are projects that are offered in the United States to teachers. The purpose of both projects is to further enhance the science knowledge and the teaching skills of Earth Science teachers at the pre-college level.