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"

Wednesday January 28, 2004

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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 I helped Mike Kaspari's brown food web team produce the live broadcast.  Click here to watch the Jan. 28 broadcast.   Our team was working with arthropods.  After that I helped the other Teacher Argonauts edit student argonaut journals which would go on the Team JASON Online (TJO) website.  I was able to go into the dining hall to watch the broadcasts on the TV monitor live.  It was an interesting day. 

Mrs. Renz's Photos from Panama

The lobby of the Gamboa Rainforest Resort.

Teacher Argo Kathy, Student Argo Abbey and Student Argo Lisa (the Rover crew)

On the balcony of the hotel.  The Chagres River is in the background.

Teacher Argo Heather (me),  Argo Lisa, Argo Abbey, and Teacher Argo Kathy

The pool area of the hotel.  Unfortunately we were only able to swim in it once. 

   

Pathways on BCI.

Randy Morgan, host of the show, and Student Argo Maria film the live broadcast

Map of BCI buildings

Welcome sign on BCI

There are lots of steps on BCI. This set leads to the lower level of the dining hall.

This is the computer room where the Argonauts wrote their online journals.

Argonauts Ben and Abbey hard at work

 

Read More Journals from Panama 2004

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Updated February 12, 2011