Sunday, 9 February 2003
Wet and Wild: the Ocean Atmosphere Interface. The Maury Project and WES: Teacher Enhancement Programs for the K-12 Classroom
Through The American Meteorological Society's Maury Project and WES ( Water in the Earth
System), teachers are bringing ocean science into the classroom in ways that were unimagined
just a few years ago. Students in the K-12 classroom are using data from the TOPEX/Poseidon
Satellite and seeing sea level changes caused by El Nino. They are super-cooling water and
finding out what effects it has on the Ocean-Atmosphere interface. Through WES, an online
learning program, teachers are learning to use real-time data about the oceans and weather to
help their students learn about the global water cycle and the Hydrosphere. I will be sharing
some of the activities teachers have developed and are using in the San Diego Area using both of
these innovative programs. We are now beginning the second year of WES in San Diego and have
some new and exciting projects to share as well as new partnerships created between local
teachers and National Weather Service employees, NOAA employees and Scripps Institute of
Oceanography.
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