WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:03.900 --> 00:00:11.520 We have the largest freshwater  system in the world! It's   00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:18.420 such a gift. These are treasures that I want  to share with my students. There are people   00:00:18.420 --> 00:00:23.580 that like going to Disney and ride the rides,  but this is my amusement park. To see really   00:00:23.580 --> 00:00:30.960 cool technology utilized to solve problems that  we never dreamed we could, so it's very fun. 00:00:33.480 --> 00:00:38.880 With Great Lakes literacy you need to learn  about the principles and concepts related   00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:43.200 to the Great Lakes, and then you should  be able to communicate that, and then   00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:48.060 the ideal piece is that you are an informed  and responsible steward of the Great Lakes. 00:00:54.360 --> 00:00:59.880 So the marines sanctuary here, it's in the  mid-Lake Michigan region of Wisconsin. In   00:00:59.880 --> 00:01:05.760 partnership with the state of Wisconsin we manage  36 historic shipwrecks that tell the story of   00:01:05.760 --> 00:01:10.560 America's westward expansion and the growth of  the United States. They're incredible historic   00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:15.660 sites and they give us an opportunity to share  those stories with the public, but also manage   00:01:15.660 --> 00:01:22.200 them creatively to find ways that we can use  those sites to make impacts ashore. Tourism …   00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:28.320 Recreation … Impacts in education. So we get  creative with the way we manage this place. When   00:01:28.320 --> 00:01:33.420 you think about trying to increase Great Lakes  literacy across the basin that is a large ask. One   00:01:33.420 --> 00:01:38.100 of the best ways to do that is to reach teachers  because then they're able to reach all their   00:01:38.100 --> 00:01:44.280 students and year after year they're teaching new  students. So for us they're a helpful partner in   00:01:44.280 --> 00:01:50.400 increasing Great Lakes literacy across the basin.  So today we’ve got a great opportunity we have two   00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:55.440 teachers sponsored by Michigan Sea Grant who have  come over to Wisconsin and we're giving them an   00:01:55.440 --> 00:01:59.760 immersive experience. They're riding along one of  our research projects where we've got a number of   00:01:59.760 --> 00:02:03.900 things going on. We've got photogrammetry,  we're filming high-definition video, we're   00:02:03.900 --> 00:02:08.460 shooting stills, we're doing archeology, and we're  also surveying with the sonar. So they're getting   00:02:08.460 --> 00:02:13.740 an immersive experience to see how all of those  operations work and how they're relevant to the   00:02:13.740 --> 00:02:18.840 health and protection of Lake Michigan. Well,  we are here at the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast   00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:23.520 National Marine Sanctuary investigating some  of the wrecks that are found in the sanctuary. 00:02:25.740 --> 00:02:31.440 We have divers in the water right now that are  down taking film of one of these shipwrecks   00:02:31.440 --> 00:02:36.300 and developing photogrammetry images of the  shipwreck and taking still photographs as well. 00:02:38.640 --> 00:02:43.800 We've been connecting teachers with  scientists for probably 15 years now.   00:02:44.940 --> 00:02:49.440 Just like you want the teachers to do with their  students and have experiential learning, we're   00:02:49.440 --> 00:02:55.380 trying to model that for the teachers and have  them have hands-on experiential opportunity to   00:02:55.380 --> 00:02:59.880 work side by side with scientists. So they learn  about the research taking place on the Great Lakes   00:03:00.600 --> 00:03:04.980 and for them to then take that information back  to the classroom and share it with their students. 00:03:04.980 --> 00:03:10.920 We’ll need some help with this one. 00:03:10.920 --> 00:03:18.660 The sonar that I teach is World War II,  single beam, sort of low-tech. And to   00:03:18.660 --> 00:03:25.260 hear about 400 separate beams,  tunable at various frequencies.   00:03:26.160 --> 00:03:33.180 It's an incredible amount of technology that  really helps you characterize shipwrecks and   00:03:33.180 --> 00:03:36.060 helps us, you know, make plans  for how to take care of them. 00:03:36.600 --> 00:03:44.040 We'll see something come through this water  column. There's a multi-beam image of a shipwreck.   00:03:44.040 --> 00:03:49.620 The real advantage of the photogrammetry is it's  extremely detailed because it's collected by a   00:03:49.620 --> 00:03:55.380 diver around multiple facets, we get a really  detailed image of the site itself. The multi-beam   00:03:55.380 --> 00:04:00.360 allows us to put that structure in a coordinate  system in three dimensions and know exactly   00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:06.060 where it is in the Earth. What the depth is, the  highest points, the extents around the sides of   00:04:06.060 --> 00:04:12.600 it. The sonar is a very powerful tool to derive  this geodetic information around these sites. 00:04:13.860 --> 00:04:17.700 You can have all the passion in the world,   00:04:17.700 --> 00:04:25.500 but to go out and live it. The ability for  Sea Grant to provide enriching experiences and   00:04:25.500 --> 00:04:33.060 depth of understanding, there's no technology  that will replace in-place learning. And   00:04:33.060 --> 00:04:36.900 that's important for teachers to bring to  their students, but it's also important   00:04:36.900 --> 00:04:43.620 for teachers to go experience as well. So Sea  Grant provides that, I’m eternally grateful. 00:04:44.880 --> 00:04:52.980 I will not be able to take my 150 students  out on a boat in a Great Lake to do the   00:04:52.980 --> 00:04:57.060 things that I'm getting to do here, but  I can bring these things to my students.   00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:03.420 My seventh grade curriculum includes an  understanding water systems and watersheds   00:05:03.420 --> 00:05:08.640 and so I want to take that further for my kids  to understand the Great Lakes system better,   00:05:08.640 --> 00:05:14.460 to understand their impact, and understand  how the Great Lakes is connected to ocean   00:05:14.460 --> 00:05:20.700 systems and how my little tiny community  here in one place is connected globally. 00:05:21.540 --> 00:05:26.280 I mean we hope they take some of this into the  classroom and begin to use it to enhance their   00:05:26.280 --> 00:05:30.780 teaching. But what we really want to do is circle  back with them after they've had a chance to think   00:05:30.780 --> 00:05:35.940 about this experience and let us know how could we  do this sustainably. Can we create a “Teacher at   00:05:35.940 --> 00:05:41.340 Sea” program so every year we're having more and  more educators on board and make that a tailored   00:05:41.340 --> 00:05:46.080 and a sustainable experience that's meaningful  that really gets at the kind of things they need.   00:05:46.080 --> 00:05:51.120 So we're looking forward to these teachers telling  us what we can do to set that path to create a   00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:56.760 really great education program at the sanctuary.  Looking out on the water we tend to just think   00:05:56.760 --> 00:06:03.240 about the waves and the impact to us as we're  sitting here, but there's a lot going on under   00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:11.040 the water. These sanctuaries offer a whole other  world, a world that is not as easily understood,   00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:17.820 but they've taken great pains to bring  resources to us. Let's enjoy them. 00:06:19.140 --> 00:06:23.760 thank you 00:06:27.660 --> 00:06:28.020 foreign 00:06:28.020 --> 00:06:28.520 [Music]