Vital Signs Community

Shiny new data entry tools

Submitted by gmri on Thu, 2013-05-02 11:50
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    Time to play with the new data entry pages! We've been listening to you and watching where the data entry process trips you up. We think we've fixed some things and added some useful features. This is what we did...

Vital Signs NORTH!

Submitted by gmri on Wed, 2013-04-24 16:56
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    There’s a new group of (amazing!) teachers in Central Aroostook County who are excited to get their students contributing to Vital Signs.

    Schools in the mix were:

Award-winning

Submitted by gmri on Fri, 2013-03-22 10:25
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    We all got an award! On behalf of the whole Vital Signs community, we're excited and honored to receive the Excellence in Environmental Education Program Award from the Maine Environmental Education Association. Here's why we were chosen:

Massabesic Middle School’s Search for the New England Cottontail

Submitted by gmri on Thu, 2013-03-07 17:03
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    A special guest post from Pat Parent of Massabesic Middle School!

    Students at Massabesic Middle School continue “student scientist” efforts with fieldwork into the winter season. Students on the Aroostook team are working with Melissa Brandt of York County Soil and Water Conservation District and the Maine Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and US Fish and Wildlife Service to search for the New England Cottontail (NEC).

Fall 2012 - A long and talkative season!

Submitted by gmri on Thu, 2013-01-03 18:14
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    After last spring, we didn’t think any new records could be set. You all proved us wrong! This was the longest and most talkative fall field season yet with 1315 comments made and the latest observation published on December 12. A total of 584 species observations were published, including the first Vital Signs sightings of Heterosiphonia japonica, winter moth, and European oyster.

Designing WITH Teachers update

Submitted by gmri on Mon, 2012-11-05 16:57
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    We want to share with you the full video recording that provides an overview of the Designing with Teachers publication that the Annenberg Innovation Lab released in October. You can download the publication and see additional resources HERE.

Participants rock the ID cards

Submitted by gmri on Thu, 2012-09-06 10:48
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    Have you seen the VS species ID cards library lately? For years we had been dreaming of the day when all of our ID card photos and content would be generated by VS participants. We took a first big leap towards that big dream this summer.

Building assessment tools together

Submitted by gmri on Fri, 2012-08-24 15:19
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    Want to know more about what students are learning through their Vital Signs investigations? So do we!

8 experienced Vital Signs teachers, 3 researchers from Stanford University, 1 researcher from University of Maine, and 4 GMRI staff spent August 14 and 15 together and made big strides towards building tools that will help us start to figure that out this fall.

Eyes on the Water - Building a database!

Submitted by gmri on Fri, 2012-08-24 13:51
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    This summer the Lovell Invasive Plant Prevention Committee (LIPPC) and Kezar Lake Watershed Association (KLWA) have been rallying the community around getting to know the native freshwater plants in their watershed.

MSSM STEM Collaborative Camp Part 1 – Vital Signs at MSSM Camp

Submitted by gmri on Wed, 2012-08-08 13:33
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    From July 22 – Juy 28 I attended MSSM’s STEM Collaborative Camp to support three VS Educator Leaders as they led a course on Vital Signs. The VS team is excited to have VS Educator Leaders share and teach other educators about the program. We are hoping that this is a model that we can repeat again and again, and I was happy to be the on-the-ground support for this first experiment.
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