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Lowell
Bailey
Bedford,
Indiana
Bedford-North
Lawrence High School
Grades 10-12 Earth Science &
Geology
I worked with Dr. Willie
G. Harris with soils and greatly enjoyed this experience. My project
involved working with GIS and using
data overlays to investigate sensitivity of the Suwannee river basin to
phosphate leaching by comparing soils with bedrock features such as karst
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which is also widely seen in southern Indiana. Here's a link to the
UF
Soil and Water Science Department
I will provide more information about TRUE and my project on my personal web page later. Click on my picture at the top of the page to go there!
I have now seen several alligators on my way to various
lectures and labs...
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Fortunately we aren't really
in the wilderness.....or lost......and don't hear banjos playing in the
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You know, no one is going to believe
that I was in Florida for 7 weeks....I look like an albino from being inside
most of the time!!!
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There are some really bright teachers here!
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Just hanging around.....
One of the highlights was the trip
to the Lubee foundation just outside
of Gainesville, Florida. We went batty....really!!! We saw many
species of mega-bats indigenous to other countries and actually got to
feed them. (That's me below....)
You don't have to do tricks
in order to be fed, showoff!!!!
It does make a nice photograph,
though!
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There are some 20 - 60,000 bats
housed in this building!
It doesn't look big enough for that many animals, but the bats here are much smaller (micro-bats) than the mega-bats at the Lubee Foundation. |
In the mornings we had lectures by professors in various fields; one of
the more interesting lectures was by Dr. Parker Small on Influenza. He
sprinkled his lecture with humor, and was easy to understand in explaining
how Flu is contracted and spread; he also passed along some teaching tips
(his 10/2 method for lecture/thought questions dealing with short term
memory - and darn it I can't remember its proper name....). 
My plans for using what I gained from TRUE....
At this point I have gained a number of ideas for new labs which are applicable to the area surrounding BNLHS. To that end, I intend to develop some generic frameworks for labs which can be used in conjunction with soil surveys and topographic maps. I also intend to pass these along to other teachers in a number of ways, including a web site and presentations. The availability of ArcView to schools may or may not be feasible, so working with GIS may be a problem for some schools. Using GIS would be a good way to get students involved in spatial data analysis, and if a program like ArcView is available I would definitely recommend its use in a science classroom.
AND CREDITS!!!!
Many thanks to Dr. Mary Jo Koroly,
Tammy Mandell, John Marks, Joe Arnold and the rest of the CPET and TRUE
staff at the University of Florida for the hard work and dedication which
helped make this workshop a success! Thanks also to Dr Willie Harris for
putting up with me for all these weeks - I learned a lot and had fun too!
Thanks to the National Science Foundation and the University of Florida
for funding which made TRUE possible. Thanks also to the rest of the TRUE
participants which TRUEly (pun intended!) made this a memorable and rewarding
workshop! Last, and by far the most important, I want to thank my family
for having the patience and fortitude to let me disappear for 7 weeks!
I love you more than I can possibly hope to express!
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2 Week teacher workshop at a NASA center! |
Seismology resources! |
Space News and resources from NASA! |
Way cool E-field trips! You really need to check this one out!!! |
E-mail me!! |
