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JASON Project Components
The JASON Project is a highly versatile program composed of five primary multimedia components. These components include professional development, a print curriculum, Team JASON Online, supplemental videos, and a live satellite broadcast experience. Each element is aligned with national education standards and can be used together in a complimentary fashion or pulled apart and woven into existing curriculum.
This highly versatile program is currently employed in public, private, magnet, charter, alternative and home schools in grades ranging anywhere from one to nine.
Professional Development: This component is essential to new and returning teachers alike. It includes an introduction to the expedition
theme, access to local scientists and experts and a hands-on walk through the print curriculum and Team JASON Online. It is led by
Bell Museum staff members and experienced JASON teachers.
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Print Curriculum: This written curriculum contains a variety of hands-on, inquiry-based exercises and resources that pertain to the current expedition. It covers disciplines in Life and Earth Science, Mathematics, Technology, Geography, History, Language Arts and Art and is correlated to both state and national standards. |
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Team JASON Online: This award-winning online system offers a variety of exciting digital lab exercises, host researcher chat sessions, message boards, teacher resources and much more. It is a safe, gated community that is monitored by JASON teachers from across the country. |
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Supplemental Videos: This component consists of two videos, which are sent directly to registered teachers at strategic times of the year. They seek to connect students to the current expedition's researchers and research sites and are neatly aligned with the content in the other four components. |
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Image provided by Dan Splaine of the JASON Foundation for Education. |
Live Satellite Broadcast: These broadcasts, otherwise known as the live expedition telepresence, mark the apex of the JASON year. During
these live events, students from all over the world participate in highly interactive and engaging broadcasts from their classrooms
or from institutions like the Bell Museum.
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