SEREAD

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SEREAD
SEREAD

• Scientific Educational Resources And Experience
  Associated with the Deployment of Argo Drifting
  Floats in the South Pacific Ocean.

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Goal

• To generate substantial knowledge, awareness and
  discussion among Pacific Island students,
  teachers and communities of the global ocean
  observing systems, climate change, sea level
  rise, global warming and the local impacts of
  these dynamics.

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Objectives

• Provide a teaching resource that compliments the
  current teaching curriculum and demonstrates the
  value of scientific knowledge through realistic
  and locally relevant applications.
• Teach students the fundamental measurements that
  describe the physical state of the ocean
  (temperature, salinity, ocean current), and the
  exchanges between the ocean and atmosphere of
  heat, water, and momentum.
• Develop teaching resources that use data gathered
  by the Argo program.
• Facilitate the interactions involving scientists
  with students and teachers.

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Target Audience

• Lower and Upper level Primary Schools.
• Lower Secondary Schools.

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Resource Material

• Developed to
• have a Pacific Island focus
• link to School curriculum
• provide a science background for teachers
• Provide equipment kits for the activities

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Teacher Workshops

• Developed to
• train SEREAD support people in the region
• provide science background for teachers
• demonstrate innovative ways of teaching science
  concepts in the classroom
• provide teachers with the opportunity to try
  hands on activities before use in the classroom

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What is Weather?
A Teaching Unit for 6 to 9 year old children

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Lower Primary SchoolActivities

• What do you understand about freezing?
• What do you understand about evaporation?
• What do you understand about condensation?

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Lower Primary SchoolActivities

• Does ice lose weight when it melts?
• Puddles
• Where does water go?
• Is there water in air?
• Making Clouds

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Lower Primary SchoolActivities

• The water cycle an experimental learning
  activity
• The water cycle
• Do plants give us water?
• Heating of the land and sea

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What is Climate?
A Teaching Unit for 9 to 12 year old children
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Upper Primary School Activities

• Layers in the Atmosphere
• The heating effect of the sun on the earths
  surface
• What is air pressure?
• A do it yourselfbarometer
• Weather watch

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Upper Primary School Activities

• Which heats up faster, land or sea?
• Air on the move
• Which way does heat move in the water?
• Argo floats
• Whats on the weather map?

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Oceans Rising?
Oceans Rising?
A Teaching Unit for 13 16 year old children
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Lower Secondary School Activities

• What causes tides?
• What is density?
• What makes seawater different?
• Comparing the behaviour of warm water to cold
  water

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Lower Secondary School Activities

• Will global warming cause the oceans to rise?
• Sea levels, past, present and future.
• El Nino an example of what can happen when ocean
  temperatures change

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Teacher Training Workshops

• Rarotonga December 2002
• Rarotonga September 2003
• Fiji 2004
• Samoa 2004
• Requests from Tuvalu and Federated
  States of Micronesia

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Keys to success

• Resources are focussed on the Pacific
• The resources were prepared by teachers in
  collaboration with scientists
• Resource material is linked to the teaching
  curriculum
• Teachers are trained in the science and in the
  teaching of the material
• Ongoing support people are trained to support the
  teachers
• Local interest in the programme

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Programme sponsors

• UNESCO Office Apia.
• Argo Science Team.
• POGO.
• NOAA.
• SOPAC.
• IOC Perth Regional Programme Office.
• NIWA.
• Carol Young, Keith Hartle