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Collaborative Project: Enhancing Science Education with Real Data from Floating Oceanographic Buoy

This project aims to improve science education by providing high school students with the opportunity to work with real and own data from a floating oceanographic buoy. The goal is to make geophysical concepts easier to understand and show the application of science in the real world across disciplines.

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Collaborative Project: Enhancing Science Education with Real Data from Floating Oceanographic Buoy

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  1. Collaboration with Amalie Skram High School Morven Muilwijk Master student PhysicalOceanographymorven.muilwijk@student.uib.no  Geophysical Institute Seminar | Bergen | 16. Nov 2015Morven Muilwijk

  2. Abouttheproject • 2015: Floating oceanographic buoy purchased by Hordaland Fylkeskommune andBergen Marine Research Cluster. • Placed in Store Lungegårdsvann with a direct link to Amalie Skram VGS. • Supposed to give students the opportunity to work with «real» data  Geophysical Institute Seminar | Bergen | 16. Nov 2015Morven Muilwijk

  3.  Geophysical Institute Seminar | Bergen | 16. Nov 2015Morven Muilwijk

  4. Project goals • Give students in high school a better understanding of physical systems and processes • Make geophysical concepts easier to understand by working with real and own data • Make the science education more exciting and interactive • Show how modern research is done (recruitment) • Give understanding on what Met./Oc. is really about (math and physics) • Show how science is being used in the «real» worldacross disciplines • Gather important data  Geophysical Institute Seminar | Bergen | 16. Nov 2015Morven Muilwijk

  5. Aboutthe APB5 buoy • Name: Gabriel • Produced by SAIV AS, Laksevåg, traditionally usedin industry and fish farming • Solar powered & mobile network • Weather station: pressure, temperature, wind directionand strength • Profiling CTD; pressure, temperature, salinity, turbidity, fluorescence & oxygen. • 18m deep • Live-data on web + ftp-server /database  Geophysical Institute Seminar | Bergen | 16. Nov 2015Morven Muilwijk

  6. Live-data + CTD database  Geophysical Institute Seminar | Bergen | 16. Nov 2015Morven Muilwijk

  7. GFI’srole in theproject • Help teachers to understand what the buoy measures and how to use this in different contexts • Facilitate and provide the data in an understandable format • Explain and convey important concepts • Develop exercises that use data from the buoy in science classes • Use the data for own research  Geophysical Institute Seminar | Bergen | 16. Nov 2015Morven Muilwijk

  8. Results so far • Developed a 60 page compendium for teachers and students • Example files of «raw» data in different programs such as Exceland Geogebra that are easy and «plug-and-play» • Create MATLAB and Geogebra routines to process/plot data • Theoretical background material on basic oceanography and meteorology • How to read and use the data in classroom education • How to program the buoy • Simple classroom experiments • Example exercises in Mathematics, Physics, Geophysics, IT and Biology/Chemistry  Geophysical Institute Seminar | Bergen | 16. Nov 2015Morven Muilwijk

  9. Example exercises • Statistics • Curve-fitting • Vector calculations • Time series analysis • Density / layering • Heat content • Fluxes • GPS • Biological mass • Distributions • And a lot more…  Geophysical Institute Seminar | Bergen | 16. Nov 2015Morven Muilwijk

  10. Contact person • Presentations (Fag pedagogisk dag) • More exercises (“plug and play”) • Better database and more routines • Another buoy in Byfjorden • More schools • Cooperation with Skolelabben? • Recruitment • Ambitions: Publication / webpage? • Media • More? The way forward  Geophysical Institute Seminar | Bergen | 16. Nov 2015Morven Muilwijk

  11. Discussion and questions • Thank you for your attention  Geophysical Institute Seminar | Bergen | 16. Nov 2015Morven Muilwijk

  12. http://station.saivas.net/14000000/ 14000000 apb5  Geophysical Institute Seminar | Bergen | 16. Nov 2015Morven Muilwijk

  13.  Geophysical Institute Seminar | Bergen | 16. Nov 2015Morven Muilwijk

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