Excellence-Ocean Learning Communities) and informal educators and interested citizens to form an ocean learning community.” SoundView’s evaluation work is research on how learning communities form and function. We research ocean scientists’ engagement with community members such as beach-based and boat-based marine educators and volunteers, with K-16 students, and with the general public. Ongoing formative and summative evaluations for COSEE-OLC have informed decision makers throughout the 5 years of the project.
weaving together traditional knowledge and western science to share place-based knowledge of ocean climate change in the north.” With COSEE Alaska, SoundView Evaluation & Research evaluates signature activities such as the Communicating Ocean Science Workshop held for ocean scientists during the annual Alaska Marine Science Symposium. SoundView is also researching how students work with scientists and community elders to produce culturally relevant and scientifically defensible ocean science fair projects.
high school Citizen Science program, the Howard Hughes grant-funded Sound Science, and the current NOAA-funded Ocean Science program. Evaluation of the exhibits such as Window on Washington Waters (WOWW), and Life on the Edge (LOTE), gave necessary feedback to improve education to audiences of children, teachers, and everyone who comes to the Aquarium.
exciting to be a part of this unique effort. SoundView is helping PTMSC conceptualize, detail and record how this project is affecting the local community, especially young students. Seeing and handling an actual orca tooth (right) was a memorable experience for the evaluators, but especially for the volunteers. The articulation of Hope, the female orca, was completed in the winter of 2011, but Hope was too large for the space and had to be partially disassembled. A new addition will house her soon. |
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