Sea Grant Staff UpdateDec 4, 2012

Updates

• Ruby Pap Coastal Resources Extension Kauai Lecture (Hanapepe Public Library)

• Ruby Pap on Kauai Kai and Wai on KKCR (Adam Asquith and Don Heacock's call- in show)

• PacIOOS (collaboration with COSEE - IE flat panel displays: 10 statewide)

•GA training (based on CRDG TSI & GK-12 training, and COSEE COS: training this spring April 26th-27th)

Hanauma Bay Crew• North shore guided snorkel with Alan Hong (retired HB manager)

• "Pupu's & Pumpkins" carving party in October

• Thanksgiving potluck for volunteers and staff

• 4 Saturdays in October-November volunteer training program for the

year (trained 10 new Interpretive Guides for the HBEP)

• Windward Mall's Festival of Giving fundraiser for non-profits, $310 --

100% of the proceeds go to HBEP for volunteer enrichment

• Annual Friends of Hanauma Bay Holiday Gathering next week

• Honolulu City Lights (HCL), Honolulu Hale, Friday December 14th --

"Ocean" theme this year and HBEP will be providing educational

activities and crafts tables to teach about marine life, Hanauma Bay, etc

HB @ Shark’s

cove

HB @ Windward

Mall Festival of Giving

Hanauma Bay Crew Cont.• July-September, 77 orientations for groups, serving nearly 2,000 people,

half Hawaii resident groups

• July & August Thursday evening lecture series focused on Sea Grant

Supported Graduate Research.

• 13 graduate students from UH Mānoa and UH Hilo presented to

approximately 140 program patrons

• Multiple students presented each evening

• Researchers gained public speaking experience

• Public learned about “Hawai‘i’s 1960 tsunami and the long-term

consequences of a coastal disaster”, “Restoration of the He‘eia

ahupua‘a”, “Algae overload on Maui”, “Microbial pollution in Hilo

Bay”, and much more!  

Hanauma Bay• Hahaione Elementary's 4th grade

annual visit

• learning about and identifying near

shore marine life

Sea Grant GAs Present

COSEE Island Earth

• CMSE Leading communications committee

• Executive committee retreat, Maui, January 2013

(live in January 2013)(Symposium last August)

(NWHI teacher connection)

(KCC, Maui)

www.cosee-ie.net

Accessible Professional Development for Teaching Aquatic Science Inquiry

TSI Professional Development CohortsTSI Professional Development Cohorts

O‘ahu★2010-12★2012-13

Kaua‘i★2012-13

Maui★2011-12

Hawai‘i★2011-12

Preliminary Teacher Inquiry Results

Inquiry Teaching Assessment = significant pre-post gains (t = 2.25; p = 0.034; effect size = 0.51)

Pedagogical Content Knowledge Scale = significant pre-post gains (t = 2.36; p = .024; effect size = .39)

Self-Efficacy Scale = significant pre-post gains (t = 9.24; p < .001; effect size = 1.35).

• On post-cohort interviews, teachers reported TSI provided very helpful tools and approaches for teaching and learning the scientific process.

Preliminary Teacher Content Results

Content scores increases in pre-post results across all modules (Physical, Chemical, Biological, and Ecological)

• from 62%-71% to 72%-82%.

• All four pre-post comparisons (combined across cohorts) were statistically significant at the .05 level (effect sizes ranged from .46 to 1.08).)

Preliminary Student Results

Nature of Science Assessment = significant pre-post gains (t = 6.38; p < .001; effect size = 0.28)

Nature of Science Scale = gain pre-post of 0.14 (10-point scale)

• Students in Cohorts 4 and 5 will also complete a Student Self-Efficacy in Science Scale as well as module specific Student Content Assessments.

Sharing Voices of Knowledge from Around the Pacific

Voice of the Sea

• Episodes being embeded in Exploring Our Fluid Earth (EOFE)

online curricular materials

• In application to be aired on PBS

• Collaborating with Ephraim Temple in American Samoa for part

of Season 2