CyberBridge Past Projects Mission Bay High
Mission Bay High School is located on and around a large bay and is very near its adjoining creek, Rose Creek. Students have easy access to this creek and bay, and the utilization of this nearby habitat was the catalyst for this interdisciplinary project. Students studied the creek and, with the assistance from Dr. Clive Dorman, a Marine Geologist, they were able to take and analyze water samples and sediment samples as well as study tidal patterns. These mini field trips allowed for students to collect, analyze, and graph meaningful data about the dynamics of water and sediment in this type of habitat. For their culminating media product, students captured photo and video images of the habitat and their collected data and used these images to create interactive Flash applications.
During the Summer Institute, teacher teams created a planning document for piloting and implementing their projects throughout the year. This document allowed the teachers to plan their collaboration, test their lesson plans, engage their partner scientist and to effectively integrate the use of technology into the classroom. In addition to this project plan, a few examples of their lesson plans (some interdisciplinary) are posted here:
Project Planning Document
Interdisciplinary Lesson Plans
One of the goals of the CyberBridge program was to expand the use of media and cyber-infrastructure (CI) in the classroom. Mission Bay students created different types of media products. During the creek data collection, students were taking video and still images at each collection. These videos, along with the interactive tide, temperature and sediment applications were showcased during a public exhibition at the San Diego Science Festival EXPO day. The event attracted 30,000 people and the teachers and students engaged the public with a small scale version of the types of field sampling that they used during the project.
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