Marine Biology is designed to inspire young adults to understand and care about the ocean, regardless of what occupation they pursue. One of the main goals of my teaching has been to motivate students with authentic activities that are real contributions to the community and nature and that involve students with organizations outside the school. I have always found that students are motivated to learn more and at a deeper level when they knew their work was real and was available to the public.
The course is educationally innovative in that it is a hybrid course combining online learning and face to face learning. Also it is multi school and multi age with students in grades 9-12 in the same class. The first half of the course will be primarily online but there will also be evening meetings and classes during this time. Students in this class are intimately involved with the ocean as they collect data while snorkeling or diving on fish species and their abundance. They also make direct observation of marine invertebrates, coastal plants and marine geology. Our data is available world wide at the REEF website.
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