Ocean Science Station: http://www.literacynet.org/ocean/
Polar Science Station: http://literacynet.org/polar/
One of the members of this Science Community of Practice, Lori Savage, mentioned in an earlier discussion thread that she spent almost a month at sea with the NOAA Submarine Ring of Fire-Mariana Arc research cruise, April 18-May 13, 2006. Lori, an instructor at Rogue Community College, Oregon, accompanied oceanographers on a cruise track from Guam to Japan on the Research Vessel Melville. You can read more about her experiences at Ocean Science Station: http://www.literacynet.org/ocean/ as well as at http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/06fire/welcome.html
From 2002-2006, a total of nine Oregon community college instructors went to sea with oceanographers from many research institutions. (one instructor went on two research cruises!) Each instructor sent back daily online journal reports in which she posed real-life math problems related to oceanography and to life at sea. The Oregon instructors had participated in a year-long professional development experience in which they learned how ocean sciences can be the topic within which math, writing, reading, science, geography and career skills can be learned and practiced.
You can view all of these wonderful reports and resources at Ocean Science Station: http://www.literacynet.org/ocean/reports.html There is additional information on the website about many aspects of ocean science. The website was produced by LINCS Resource Center-Region 4, and it is still archived at that site.
In addition, LINCS Region 4 hosts Polar Science Station at http://literacynet.org/polar/ This site features reports, journals, and supplementary information about science in the polar regions. The daily journals were written by two Oregon community college instructors who participated in Antarctic research: Susan Cowles at Palmer Station, Antarctica from January-March 2002, and Marion Tyson, on board the R/Vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer in the Drake Passage south of Chile in July, 2006.
All the materials on these two websites were written for the target audience of adult basic education instructors and students. The websites are archived and they are periodically checked for updates and changes. Please check out the work of members of the adult basic education instructor community!!!
Susan