Yesterday we presented our projects and collaborations to the leaders and teachers of the Bering Sea Education Project.
I have made some new connections and volunteered to work with my new teacher friends to connect cultures.
Paul Lukosi, from the North Yukon area, will be learning about Hawaiian Monk Seals from us, and we will be learning about ribbon seals, ringed seals, bearded seals, and spotted seals from his classes.
We’ll also how his culture is so closely connected to these animals. One of the cultural projects his students do is learn to make spears from the elders in his village. I know Ms. Travis would LOVE to listen in on that one :)
We will be continuing our work with the Pribilof Islands and Tonia Kushin.
In ocean sampling. Of course since the ocean forms ice up in Alaska in winter, we will include ice and the melting of the ice as a part of our learning. We are taking a long term look at this, as I hope to loop with my current classes and connect them via physical, chemical and earth science to the changes that affect us down in the central Pacific.
I know you will all learn so much from what we are planning. Tomorrow I fly back home, to Maui. I look forward to planting my feet on warm Hawaiian soil.
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