Last spring, Barb Miranda from Yosemite National Park introduced the
WildLink Project at one of our CCSELA meetings. This is a collaboration
between YNP, U. Of Montana Wilderness Institute, NASA=92s International
Earth Observing System (EOS), the GLOBE Program, National Geographic
Society=92s Geographic Alliance, and the Arthur Carhart Wilderness
Training Center.
The goal is to bring the wilderness experience into high school
classrooms with high populations of traditionally underrepresented
students. A core group of 10 20 schools will be selected to participate
in real-time video conferencing with members of the WildLink team and
YNP naturalists and other personnel. Teams of teachers, composed of one
GLOBE teacher and a social studies, geography, history or language arts
teacher from each school will attend two training sessions in YNP,
scheduled for fall and early summer 2000.
The WL team will make measurements and conduct investigations at
selected sites in the park. Another 100 schools will be able to
participate in online lessons and activities. For the pilot phase (Year
1) most of these schools will be from central California. Phase 2 will
include the Rocky Mountains and a wider scope around the country.
WildLink is looking to contract with a highly skilled curriculum
specialist to assemble and customize appropriate existing lesson plans
and activities to be placed on the WL web site for the students and
teachers to access. The material will involve cross-curricular themes
(science, social studies, history, geography, technology and language
arts) and be connected to the state science standards.
If you know of a candidate that might be interested in this endeavor
would you please respond directly to Barbara Miranda
<mailto:barbara_miranda@nps.gov>
or by phone at (209) 372-0735.
Your assistance in this matter is greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Dave