Presentation given by Dave Conover, education director, Clearwater, during the 2011 Teaching the Hudson Valley Summer Institute, Place & The Digital Native: Using Technology & Social Media to Teach the Hudson Valley

1. Extending the Impact of Field Trip Programs Teaching the Hudson Valley - July 26, 2011

3. NCLI Act

6. Clearwater and the “spiral curriculum” Noted educator Jerome Bruner coined the term “spiral curriculum” in 1960 in his landmark book The Process of Education . It was a part of a paradigm shift in educational philosophy that centered around four core ideas:

8. Mystic Whaler and Clearwater

9. Sloop Clearwater Named to National Register of Historic Places PIER 40, NYC—May 13, 2004. The Hudson River Sloop Clearwater has been added to the National Register of Historic Places for its national significance to the American environmental movement during the past three decades.

15. Estuary Link Connecting kids from downriver to kids upriver through distance learning.

16. Beczak Center field program, Yonkers, NY

17. Clearwater program, Ulster Park, NY

19. Samples taken from one site can be shared with students at the other site. The same for field data. Here, comparing male and female blue crabs. Estuary Link- two sites 70 miles apart on the Hudson River.

21. As seen on TV!

22. HRECOS Live Hudson River data and lesson plans. A great way to extend a Hudson River field trip.

25. Is there a connection between the Hudson River and Greenland? Can technology help extend the impact of a field experience?

26. Hudson-Greenland Connection

32. Greenland or bust Greenland students came to visit the Hudson, now I go visit them in Greenland and try to set up a Skype connection between them and Pete Seeger in Beacon.

33. It worked! Pete and the Greenland kids sang to each other via Skype and reconnected.

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