New Zealand Marine Studies Centre At Portobello, on the Otago Peninsula Part of Otago University

1. New Zealand Marine Studies Centre • At Portobello, on the Otago Peninsula • Part of Otago University • Research facilities for researchers • Has an aquarium for the public • Hosts education programmes –LEOTC programmes

2. Research • Heaps of studies on marine animals • PhD students, doctorates • Paua shell colour (Mike Barker) • Polarus II • Accomodate 16 • 6 cabins • kitchen • 2 toilets & showers, • drying room, • wet & dry lab • seminar / teaching, workroom • Used to go to tropics and down to sub -Antarctic islands • Used for research in marine biological, chemical, geological, zoological, botanical, physical and oceanographic sciences

3. Aquarium • Public • Touch tanks • Giant Squid • Lots of fish • Sea horses • Octupus • Crabs

6. Education • Primary education programmes • Go onto shore and look at where animals live (habitats) • Go to touch tanks and look at their features (adaptations for survival) • What they eat and how they eat • Secondary Education • 3 day crab study – intense! • Evolution Sally Carson Programme Director Victoria Rosin Primary Educator Steve Cutler Secondary Educator

7. 3 day crab study • NCEA achievement standard • Students designed own experiment and carried it out • First day is intro to crabs • Day 2 and 3 experiment

8. What did I do? • Helped with the education programs, setting up, tidying up, collecting animals. • Also help during the programmes especially when children were working in groups or as individuals. • Put together staff training booklets with all the information needed to help new educators teach the classes. • Updated old curriculum links.

9. Incidents • Positive People • No negative attitudes (Collins, 2002) • Felt like part of the team right from the start – not lonely (Gaitens, 2000) • Relevant duties – being photocopier and coffee kid decreases motivation (Holmes, 2006). • Positive experience dependent on people around you (Holmes, 2006).

10. Incidents • Learning from Experience • I knew nothing about marine science • Initially put me off getting involved • The more involved you are the more you learn (Toncar& Cudmore, 2000) – very relevant for the classroom • “There is no better teacher than experience”. We need to let students ‘‘touch the stove’’. “Education was never meant to be isolated in an Ivory Tower” (Collins, 2002, p.96)

11. Importance of LEOTC • Hands on experience were children can link in class theory to real world • Chance to use multiple intellegencies (Brodie Wiebe, 1999) • Professional development for teachers, become confident with science (Plonzac, 2008)

12. Evaluation • Internship experience was awesome • Learnt heaps of new pedagogies • Importance of LEOTC • Professional development for teachers • Hands on experience were children can link in class theory to real world • Learnt heaps about NCEA and the Science Curriculum • I feel I have become more employable • Science specialist • LETOC educator

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