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ELEMENTARY OCEANS & LESSON PLAN FOR BUILDING AN UNDERWATER HABITAT

12/3/2013

 
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Yesterday I spent four hours talking to K-3 students about the ocean, and showed them some robots I've worked on. Best question: "Can you turn this building into a cow?" 

They were so curious about everything, but spent most of the time saying hilarious things! Every 10 minutes or so someone would ask if I would get eaten by a shark, or I'd show them a piece of SCUBA gear, and they'd say, "What if a shark ate that?" I said sharks will really only eat you if you smell like blood and maybe look like a turtle. "You'd better not wear your ninja turtle costume under water!" one smartly said. I truly enjoyed my time with these students. 

More great questions from this group are posted here.

P.S. After my visit, these amazing students built an underwater research house, complete with electricity!  I want to go to school there!  A lesson plan from NOAA ocean education for building an underwater habitat is here: Aquarius Technology: Building an Underwater Habitat. Enjoy!

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P.S.S. In June 2014, Mission 31 posted curriculum for grades K-12 to bring back lessons "from the seafloor to the surface," in addition to their M31 Skype-in-the-Classroom.
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    Grace Young  (B.S., MIT, Ph.D, Oxford) is an ocean engineer, aquanaut, and explorer currently working at X. She lived underwater as a scientist and engineer on Fabian Cousteau’s Mission 31, and is a National Geographic Explorer. 

    Blog Highlights: 
    1. No Engineer is an Island
    2. Mission 31 Highlights
    3. Sailing Across the Atlantic 
    ​3. Return to CERN

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