Marine Science Station shares educational learning content for educators

Today the amazing education team of Earn Olsen, Josh O’Leary and Sheryl Janecek at our Citrus County School’s Marine Science Station shared with county teachers some excellent MSS content, along with additional other science resources to provide some extra special learning.  The MSS team also unveiled the new Marine Science Station YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMHraqFgDwdAwfu_tWJKhTg.

At this time of remote learning, in addition to our district teachers, many families find themselves as home teachers and I thought you might appreciate learning more about these great MSS resources.

MSS Supervisor Earnie Olsen:

Hello from the Citrus County School District’s Marine Science Station!  I know not all of you who are reading this actually bring your students to the Marine Science Station as part of your course curriculum, but I wanted to quickly share this information to as many Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Science Teachers, and High School Science Teachers (and other interested people) who may find the following information useful

Just like all of you, we greatly miss seeing our visiting students and fellow teachers.  We especially miss seeing the middle and high school student and teachers who were scheduled to visit the Marine Science Station during the current school closure.  My staff and I have taken this time to engage not only in social distancing, but also in a variety of facility, aquarium, equipment, and boat maintenance projects that will allow us to make future visits to the Marine Science Station as good as, or better, than before.  We’ve also created some brief educational video segments as well as stock video footage of our ecosystem explorations from over the years.  Within the descriptions of many of these videos you will see links for further reading and research.  You can access these videos via our brand new Marine Science Station YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMHraqFgDwdAwfu_tWJKhTg  You can also access the Marine Science Station on Facebook for other information and content at https://www.facebook.com/marinesciencestation/

If there’s any educational content related to watersheds, aquifers, springs, coastal rivers, estuaries, salt marshes, mangrove swamps, seagrass meadows, or other marine environments that you’d like us to research and share with you and your students, then please let me know.  CLICK HERE for a pdf document that has a list of Virtual Opportunities for Marine Science Educators that’s been compiled by the Florida Marine Science Educators Association (www.fmsea.org).  I hope you find these resources useful.

On behalf of the staff at the Marine Science Station, we are grateful for all of your hard work to ensure our kids are staying connected and engaged in learning.  My staff and I are looking forward to better days ahead and to seeing folks out here again soon.  Until then, we hope you stay safe and well.

Sincerely,
Earnie Olsen
MSS Supervisor

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