EET Workshops Implementation Sharing Template s2

EET Workshops Implementation

Use this template to share the results of how you have incorporated the techniques of an EET chapter into your teaching. Let us know how you used the EET in the classroom by describing the projects and activities that you carried out with your students. In addition to this template, post a PowerPoint presentation or a text file with screen shots to document your results.

Name: Amanda Rabatin

Position and school: Science Teacher, Shaker Heights HS, OHIO

Title of the EET Chapter on which you based your Project or Activity: Shrinking Forest Growing Problem

Dataset Used: tiff files of the Amazon Rainforest using microwaves to detect deforestation.

Tool Used: ImageJ

Project/Activity Question(s):  Follow up activity to show that strip/clear cuts are done in Amazon. I would like students to understand the Red/Blue/Green over lay and how this relates to the deforestation over the years.

Project/Activity Goal(s):  Show students the ImageJ with all years so they can understand that they are looking at the deforestation over time. I also want them to recognize that the harvesting of trees is being done in a strip/clear cut method.

Brief Description of the Project/Activity (What did students do?): This activity I had to show as a demonstration as I do not at this point have ImageJ in the computer lab at my school. In the future I would love to have the students complete this activity as a lab when we look at tree harvesting methods, or potentially biodiversity of terrestrial species. Number of Students (With how many students did you carry out the project/activity?): 20

Time Spent on the Project/Activity (How many hours or class periods did the project/activity take?): 1 – 50 minute class. Your Reflections on the Project/Activity:

 How do you feel the project/activity went with students? I think they have a better understanding of tree harvesting. I would like the students to have more of a hands on approach so they can use ImageJ and understand we can look at the images and analyze areas using remote sensing.

 What sorts of questions did student ask? What insights did they have? How proficient are students in using the dataset and/or tool of the EET chapter?

 How will you carry out this project/activity differently in the future? Yes please see above.

In addition to this template, please post a PowerPoint presentation or a text document with screen shots to document your results. Include examples of representative student work (without names) and any handouts or introductory materials you may have provided to accompany the project/activity.

If the materials you used come from other sources and are copy written, please cite where they come from. If you developed the materials you used, then please cite them with Your Name, Copyright Year. For example, Susan Smith, Copyright 2006.