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Workout #6Digital Storytelling

EDCI270

Liz Vanderveer

Target Audience: 6-12

Learning Objective: Students will learn/identify/understand the reason why Miss Vanderveer chose biology education as a career.

Scene #1 Marine Biology

My Junior year of high school I was privileged to have the opportunity to participate in the Marine Biology program at Goshen High School.

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Scene #2 Duck Key, FL

38 students, 47 chaperones, and 27 children traveled 1,430 miles to Duck Key, FL from Goshen, IN, to study marine life off the coast of the Florida Keys.

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We stayed at Hawk’s Cay Resort at Duck Key.

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Hawks Cay

Scene #4 Focus Group

All students on the trip were divided into focus groups. Each focus group was assigned a habitat. Our habitat was the mangroves.

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Scene #5 Mangrove Trees

Mangroves are trees which grow in the marine coastal sediment in the tropics. Mangroves serve as the habitat for a marine ecosystem. Organisms such as snails, crabs, sponges, small fish, mussels, starfish, and many more, take shelter in the mangroves. Picture taken from http://sofia.usgs.gov/virtual_tour/flbay/

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Scene #6 Mobile Classroom

We had 2 locations as our “mobile classrooms.” This mobile classroom was located in a conference room at the resort. Most of our onsite lectures took place in this room, as well as our final project presentations.

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Scene #7 Mobile Classroom

Our other mobile classroom was a tent. The tent was set up near our condos and contained specimens and treasures found while exploring our habitats. At the end of the week everything we borrowed to observe was returned to its natural habitat.

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Scene #8 Coastline

While each focus group primarily studied one habitat, we had the opportunity to explore different habitats. Here is my focus group exploring the coastline.

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Scene #9 Conclusion

Not only did I spend spring break of my junior year in the Florida Keys, but I also had a great hands on learning experience. This trip made my love for biology grow, and now I’m pursuing a degree in biology. This trip also peaked my interest in marine animals. In Maui, HI I have visited the Pacific Whale Foundation. In Grand Cayman I have been have been swimming with stingrays and toured the Sea Turtle Farm. My learning experience in the Florida Keys has definitely influenced my interests and goals.

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