EARTHQUESTS? (Google Earth and GIS Data)
Ok so I just finished my Week at Stone Lab and what a week it was. We were stuck on an Island about the size of 2 football Fields on some Siluran Dolastone. That is the type of rock that it is which I learned this week. Anyways, we used Google Earth to create useable lessons for teachers regarding Geo Spacial Technology and the tools associated with Google Earth. I had a Blast! Most of it was being trapped on an Island with nothing to do but this work. Along the way we went on a Trawling trip which you saw a video of earlier, we went to Kellys Island for a tour of its Geological history, and even toured Put-in-Bay and some of its History.
Dr. David Hart is affiliated with Wisconson Sea Grant and he recently took the book Paddle to the Sea and charted the path on Google Earth and made a kind of lesson out of Paddle’s Travels. If you haven’t read Paddle to the Sea I suggest you maybe take a look at it some day. His lesson is posted at www.googlelittrips.com. He helped us burn the night oil and finish our stuff sometimes staying up to 3 and 4 in the morning to finish.
Dr. Rosanne Fortner is a retired Professor from The Ohio State University and she helped bring all of us together this week and leads COSEE during her retirement. For information on her go here. http://coseegreatlakes.net/staff/rosanne She is known as a teacher of Teachers.
I highly suggest coursework at Stone Lab for anybody interested in Science or Education. I enjoyed it very much. I have created a website to post our lessons. I call them Earthquests. So you can visit www.earthquests for more information. Enjoy, and I hope you play around with my lesson and give me feedback.
Pat
