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Lawrence University Hosts Curriculum Workshop for Area JASON Project
Teachers


     APPLETON, WIS. -- More than 70 Fox Valley elementary and middle
school teachers will begin a year as classroom explorers at a curriculum
training workshop Saturday, Oct. 23 sponsored by Lawrence University.
The workshop is in conjunction with the launch of this year's JASON
Project "expedition," which will focus on the spirit of exploration and
extreme environments.
     Lawrence faculty members Bart De Stasio, assistant professor of
biology, and Peter Peregrine, associate professor of anthropology, will
lead a series of hands-on seminars as preparation for the year's
curriculum. In addition, Tara Reed-Andersen from UW-Green Bay will
conduct a session on technical diving and members of the Appleton Fire
Department will demonstrate use of its extreme environment gear.
     More than 1,000 students from 20 Fox Valley schools and are
expected to participate in this year's JASON Project program, which
begins its 11th year nationally and fourth year in area classrooms.
Students on this year's expedition will examine the history, culture,
geography and technology of exploration while studying some of history's
greatest explorers, from Egypt's Ptolemy, the "father of astronomy," to
oceanographer Jacques Cousteau and astronaut Neil Armstrong. 
     During the year, students will experience a sea and space odyssey,
visiting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Aquarius
Underwater Laboratory, located 65 feet below the surface at the base of
Conch Reef near Key Largo, Fla., and NASA's International Space Station,
an orbiting science institute currently circling 285 miles above the
Earth through the use of the Internet and live satellite transmissions. 
     The training workshop will be held in Lawrence's Shattuck Hall,
Room 156 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.  Teachers can register for the
workshop by calling 920/722-4046 or online at FVJASON@focal.org or.
Walk-in registration at Shattuck Hall the morning of the workshop also
will be accepted.