Local students conduct research at Gulf of Maine Institute
SIXTH GRADERS Sam Sinibaldi of Phippsburg and Christian Longobardi of Westport Island measure a lobster’s carapace at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute’s LabVenture! learning laboratory. Courtesy of Center for Teaching and Learning
SIXTH GRADERS Sam Sinibaldi of Phippsburg and Christian Longobardi of Westport Island measure a lobster’s carapace at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute’s LabVenture! learning laboratory. Courtesy of Center for Teaching and Learning
On Sept. 26, fifth and sixth graders from Edgecomb’s Center for Teaching and Learning engaged in dynamic research at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland.
GMRI's facilities for their LabVenture! learning laboratory include a fully-digitalized amphitheater with three huge screens that display an array of scientific webs, videos from scientists working in the Gulf of Maine, and an interactive polling remote on each student's chair.
As part of LabVenture’s Complex Systems program, students explored the connections between cod, copepods, lobsters, people, technological advances in fishing gear, and climate change at six different interactive stations that walked them through the scientific method.
Each station is equipped with a scientific tool such as a microscope to look at copepod samples, calipers to measure the length of a live lobster’s carapace, and cameras to record student hypotheses and conclusions.
The fifth and sixth graders will take what they learned from their LabVenture! experience and continue their year-long study of local coastal waters with weekly field trips to coastal areas to find invasive species.
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