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Program Overview
Each year, the JASON Project--administered by the JASON Foundation for Education--embarks on a 2-week scientific expedition to a remote location. The project develops a science and technology curriculum module to prepare students to participate in the expedition using interactive telecommunication. The JASON Project series currently consists of 9 such modules.

Teacher's Guide
Recommended grade level: 6-8+.
TheJASON IV Curriculum: Baja California Sur contains 21 lessons and more than 70 activities that prepared students for live satellite participation in a March 1993 expedition to Baja California Sur to study whales in the San Ignacio Lagoon and hydrothermal vent communities in the Guaymas Basin of the Sea of Cortez. During the module, students learn about past JASON Projects and about the goals of the JASON IV expedition. They also find out about the technological innovations that make such expeditions work--for example, robotics, sonar technology, and fiber optics. They learn about the science involved in the expedition--tectonic geological processes, photosynthesis, chemosynthesis, and the physiology, behavior, and migration pattern of gray whales--as well as about the social and cultural history of Baja California and the pros and cons of whaling.

Among the activities, students build models of some of the devices that JASON scientists used to collect and retrieve samples from the ocean floor. They plot points from soundings of the Guaymas Basin and draw a profile of the seafloor. They also locate and describe geological features above and below the ocean surface, build a model of a hydrothermal vent community, piece together a model of a gray whale's skeleton, and experiment with using whalelike sounds for communication.

Each activity includes objectives, step-by-step teaching procedures, and a materials list. Most of the activities were developed for middle school students, but suggestions are included for adapting the activities for use with older or younger students. In addition to the activities, the module contains background materials for the teacher, reproducible student worksheets and readings, resource lists, and a glossary.

Program Resources and Support Materials
The module also contains a poster, a large map of the ocean floor, several small maps, and complete materials for several games and simulations. A videotape--Sea of Cortez Highlights--is also available.

Key to Content Standards: 5-8 (see app. C)

UNIFYING CONCEPTS AND PROCESSES: Systems, order, and organization; evidence, models, and explanation; change, constancy, and measurement; evolution and equilibrium; form and function.
SCIENCE AS INQUIRY: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry; understandings about scientific inquiry.
PHYSICAL SCIENCE: Properties and changes of properties in matter; transfer of energy.
LIFE SCIENCE: Structure and function in living systems; regulation and behavior; populations and ecosystems; diversity and adaptations of organisms.
EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE: Structure of the earth system; earth's history.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Abilities of technological design; understandings about science and technology.
SCIENCE IN PERSONAL AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES: Science and technology in society.
HISTORY AND NATURE OF SCIENCE: Science as a human endeavor; nature of science; history of science.

Price: Teacher's guide, $15. (Contact publisher/supplier for complete price and ordering information.)
Publisher/supplier: JASON Foundation for Education.
Materials: Available locally, or from commercial suppliers.

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