"Frozen Worlds", in 4th and 5th Grade Classrooms
 See an Outline of the Project

This year Arlington is piloting the JASON Project in nine of our fourth and fifth grade classrooms. The JASON Project is a multimedia inquiry-based, interdisciplinary expedition that integrates real-life science, math, technology, and supporting disciplines. JASON is aligned to national and state science, math, language arts, and geography education standards.  

This year's theme is Frozen Worlds. Students will have the opportunity to explore the geography, climate, biology, history, geology, culture, and literature of Alaska and the Polar Regions. The three main focus questions that JASON will use to encourage students to think experimentally, or as prompts for writing in their journals are:

  1. What are the dynamic systems of Earth and Space?
  2. How do these systems affect life on Earth?
  3. What technologies do we use to study these systems, and why?

The JASON multimedia components employed consist of:

  • An award winning integrated print curriculum for teachers to use in planning activities.
  • Prologue and update videos to help students recall and visually organize information and reinforce learning.
  • A live satellite broadcast to help students become part of the research team.
  • Team JASON Online, a highly interactive web site, to help students articulate and share their understanding of concepts, skills, vocabulary, and projects with other students from all over the world.

Students will work with JASON founder Dr. Robert Ballard and other JASON team members-including expert researchers, broadcast and production specialists, online experts, and teacher and student Argonauts.

Check out the JASON Project at http://www.jasonproject.org/.

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  1. A student responding in his online JASON journal to the assignment, "Describe the differences between the Arctic and the Antarctic." Students will then make Venn diagrams comparing and contrasting the Arctic and the Antarctic.

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  1. A student working on a mural of Alaska.

  1. A student recording definitions in the vocabulary section of her JASON binder. The notebooks also contain an atlas, a weather section, and a section on the JASON scientists.

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Frozen Worlds

  1. A student displaying her science experiment notebook in which she has recorded the results of JASON experiments related to sound and light.

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  1. A class of fifth graders in the distance learning lab at AHS watching a live downlink from Alaska.

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  1. A group of students doing research on the background of this year's JASON scientists.

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  1. A student working on a wall mural of the Polar icecap.

  2. A group of students doing research on the background of this year's JASON scientists.

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Frozen Worlds

  1. An example of a JASON focus question students respond to in their online JASON journals.

  1. Another example of a JASON journal assignment. This one is related to the digital lab "Mapping Alaska Native Culture." Students are taking notes in their JASON notebooks on the five different cultures of Alaska. After reading and listening about the cultures, students develop questions, which they record in their online journals.

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Frozen Worlds

  1. Students working on the Native Cultures digital lab in TJO (Team JASON Online).

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  1. A fourth grade JASON teacher helping a student log on to TJO and record a journal entry.

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  1. The technology resource teacher helping a student log on to TJO for the first time.

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  1. A class discussion of Black Star, Bright Dawn, one of this year's recommended novels related to the frozen worlds theme.

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  1. Two students working on a poster that highlights the achievements of one of this year's JASON scientists.

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  1. Students reviewing an online chat with the JASON Project founder, Dr. Robert Ballard.

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  1. Two students on the TJO website checking out the page "What Lives There?" In this section of TJO website students can explore the Gulf of Alaska, learn how and why this ecosystem is changing and what are the impacts on its inhabitants, including Stellar sea lions and harbor seals.

  2. Students reading one of this year's recommended JASON novels.  

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