Polar Science Webcast #2 - Muscle Beach!
This webcast will give students a good grounding in the physiology of skeletal muscles. In order to be able to understand the basis of the Weddell Seal study, it's important for students to understand what muscles are and how they work.
This webcast involves:
- Offline work in the classroom
- Blogging
- Real-time interaction in the actual webcast
Date: Tuesday Nov. the 10th
Time: You tell us! We'll do our best to accomodate everyone's schedule. We need to know ASAP the range of time your class can be available on that date. We'll need about an hour.
Please have your class complete the following activities prior to the Nov. 10 webcast:
- Cardiovascular activity, http://resources.yesican-science.ca/polar_science2006/aerobic_studies09.html. Susan and I have done this activity in class visits and found we needed about 40 minutes for the activity and then a 20 minute follow-up to do the data collection. It's suitable for all age groups. Dr. Kanatous will be asking classes to report their findings during the webcast, using the chat function of the webcast site.
- Discuss in class what students know about skeletal muscles. This should help them come up with questions to ask Dr. Kanatous. Teachers, this is your call.
- You can choose one student or a small group of students to write a new blog entry on behalf of your class or
- you can use this as individual assignments with each student writing his/her own blog entry.
We want to know what the students already know and what they want to learn about muscles. The questions posted in the blogs are the ones Dr. Kanatous will address in the webcast. In order to make it easier for us to gather those questions, please ask your students to use the word "muscles" in the topic box. That way a simple keyword search will pull all of the related blogs together.
For the actual webcast, you will need to choose:
- one student to introduce your class
- one student to ask your first question
- one student to ask the second question
- two students (good keyboarders) to type in your "before strenous activity" and "after strenuous activity" results
- one student to answer "yes" or "no" questions posed by Dr. Kanatous, by clicking on the "yes" or "no" box in the voting section of the webcast site.
Everyone is welcome to participate in this webcast, whether or not you took part in the last one. Even if you are just getting your students online now, don't worry about "catching up". Just jump in!
We've planned for lots of interaction - this should be fun!
Diane and Susan
Polar Science Admin Team
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Hey
I am really looking forward to this webcast about the seals skeletal muscles, because one day I may want to go into a career in sports medicine. I cant wait to get the webcast started.
Re: Polar Science Webcast #2 - Muscle Beach!
It looks like we're pretty well organized for this webcast. We are offering two sessions on Nov. 10 - 11:30 and 1:45 EST. The meeting rooms will be open 10 minutes early, so please plan to come in early if you can and get your classes settled. To those classes who are attending, we'll send the meeting URL to you by e-mail. Remember you have an in-class component to this webcast so please read the above blog carefully. We'll be gathering your questions from the blogs. Students, please use the word "muscles" in the topic box.
Don't hesitate to contact us (support@yesican-science.ca) if you have any questions.
Diane
Polar Science Admin Team
Excited
I'm really excited to get to be a part of this webcast the last one was really cool and very interesting. Can't wait to see what we'll learn through this one. =)
webcast#2
I can't wait for this webcast! I'm really interested in the body and the way it works so this seems like it will be a very fun and learning experience. I also have a lot of questions that i hope can be answered on this topic. See you soon!
Awesome!
When I grow up I'm going to be a nurse and I'm going to have to get used to talking about things like this. I am really interested to see if any of the studies being done on these seals help our understanding of diseases and how to get rid of them so we can be a healthier world. Plus the muscles fascinate me to no extent.