Mrs. Renz's 4th Grade Class Redmond, Oregon

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4th Grade Class

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Tom McCall Elementary School

Redmond, Oregon

  

Rainforests at the Crossroads

Mrs. Renz We love the JASON Project! Teacher Argonaut

On Expedition to Panama

"Notes from the Field"

Saturday January 24, 2004

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Real Science.   Real Time.   Real Learning.

Mrs. Renz was selected to join the JASON XV Project expedition team, traveling with the scientists and production team to the remote locations of Panama including Barro Colorado Island and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in the middle of the Panama Canal Zone.  This opportunity allowed the student and teacher Argonauts joining Dr. Robert Ballard, world class scientists, and guest researchers at the expedition site.  Mrs. Renz was in Panama two weeks.  Her fourth graders  followed her journey each day as she updated her website with her daily journals and photos.   

The Weather Right Now in Panama

 

Mrs. Renz's Field Journal 
Today was a slow day for me.  Our team was supposed to visit the ocelot latrine to see what the ocelots have been eating, but the current area they are using is on the far side of the island, too far for to hike there and back with the camera crew.  The crew took Argo Abbey and did the filming while Teacher Argo Kathy and I and Student Argo Lisa wrote journals for the TJO (Team JASON Online) website and edited student journals.  It would have been much more exciting to visit the ocelot area, but, that's the way it goes with science.  You have to be willing to adapt to change quickly.  

It was still an awesome day in Panama.  Today was the coolest day so far and the boat ride back to Gamboa was very pleasant with the evening breeze and the gorgeous sunset over the Panama Canal.  It's still hard to believe I am in the tropical paradise!  Check back tomorrow tomorrow to read all about our visit to the Canopy Crane in Panama City. 

Mrs. Renz's Photos from Panama

Gecko 

Pathway on BCI.  Notice the red & black production 

cables to get power to the live broadcast site

Tiny tree frog found near the Argo dorms

Leaf cutter ants constantly move harvest leaves 

and take them to their underground fungus farms

Student Argo Stacy counts leaf cutter ants 

BCI boat docks.  The big building in the middle is the dining hall.

The dining hall is on the upper floor of this building and

lower floors are where the JASON offices and media rooms were 

located while we were at the STRI buildings on BCI.

There were 198 steps up to get to the Argo Hangout building.  

There was a great view from up there.

Sunset over the Panama Canal taken from the boat from BCI back to Gamboa.

 

Read More Journals from Panama 2004

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Updated February 12, 2011