PreTrip

InflataGlobe Tie in with Map

-Is there funding to get maps/globes out to participating schools? -Can we write and ask?

Life Aboard the Ship

Shiplife Video- upload a video of life in your classroom! Make a map of your home! What rooms do you have? http://iodp.tamu.edu/labs/ship.html

Career Ocean Sciences

http://www.oceanleadership.org/education/deep-earth-academy/educators/classroom-activities/grades-5-8/exploring-ocean-science-careers-2/

CORE NOTES:

WENDY VIDEO: Make your BOREHOLE!

Can you do a "sample" of your soil? Using same measurements? Share pix, video, and data online-- COMPARE. Possible chat/videoconference with partner classes about what you found?

Downhole Logging Technology - keeping an online log of physical properties of your Borehole

Inquiry: What kind of questions do you have about the seafloor? USING KEY QUESTION starters. Stratigraphy, mineral composition, prosity, fractures and faults, and cycles.

What do you think the seafloor could tell us about the past?

What kind of rock do you think makes up the seafloor?

Draw the JOIDES from the description! -Using units of measurement -Can your school/class make itself as long as the JOIDES and take a picture?