Learn Dive Into Body Of Body Of Water Calendar Week At Military Camp Google
Today is the receive of Camp Google—an online summertime military camp built to spark too satisfy kids’ curiosities, with 4 weeks of alive adventures for students ages 7-10. This shipping service comes to us from Sylvia Earle, marine biologist too Explorer-in-Residence at National Geographic too the host of the receive calendar week of Camp Google. Tune inwards to Sylvia’s live final result at 12 p.m. PT today. -Ed.
The body of body of water receive got my attending during a solid unit of measurement see to a New Bailiwick of Jersey beach when I was 3 years old—a moving ridge knocked me over! At historic menses 12, a motion to the Florida coast made the body of body of water my backyard, too I loved the abundance of life there—every twenty-four hours I encountered novel creatures similar starfish, sponges, horseshoe crabs, seaweed, too a wondrous array of pocket-sized fish that I’d never seen before. I knew from too thence on that when I grew upwardly I would endure a scientist thence I could maintain exploring, no thing what.
Now I acquire to percentage my honey for the body of body of water with a novel generation of adventurers every bit role of Camp Google, a novel online military camp for curious kids, starting. During each of the 4 weeks of Camp Google, kids 7-10 tin give the axe explore dissimilar subjects yesteryear joining alive adventures—from the depths of the Atlantic to the tumble out of i of the world’s most active volcanoes—and doing fun scientific discipline projects. Today at 12 p.m. PT, National Geographic diver Erika Bergman too I volition direct hold kids on the receive adventure—a live dive inwards the Atlantic Ocean. We’ll caput to the northernmost role of Florida Reef Tract, the most extensive living coral reef arrangement inwards North America. Whether it endure the Hammerhead Reef or shipwrecks similar the Jay Scutti, it volition endure exciting to watch what we’ll regain downward there!
After the dive, kids tin give the axe acquire hands-on with a arrive at of activities to help them sympathize the scientific discipline behind what they’ve seen underwater. The activities are designed yesteryear the Google engineers who map the oceans with Google Earth, too tin give the axe endure done with uncomplicated household supplies. For example, we’ll learn close buoyancy too how things float inwards the body of body of water inwards an experiment with eggs, H2O too salt, too we’ll explore how dolphins utilization sounds to watch underwater yesteryear building a sonar system. As kids consummate these projects, they’ll earn military camp badges to celebrate the novel skills they learned, similar conquering echolocation (not bad for summertime vacation!). The activities are designed for kids to exercise on their own, inwards groups with their friends, or with their families.
Following Ocean Week, kids tin give the axe boundary into Space Week with a NASA astronaut too VSauce where they volition help fix upwardly infinite nutrient too acquire how astronauts consume inwards space. After that, they’ll caput to Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park with a National Park Ranger too Derek Muller to acquire to a greater extent than close how volcanoes form. And military camp ends inwards means with Music Week, where kids tin give the axe jam with Zendaya to acquire close why music makes us desire to bust a move. We hosts can't await to explore with you lot this summer, wherever you lot mightiness be!
The body of body of water is vast too a lot of it is unexplored—every fourth dimension I dive into the body of body of water there’s the possibility of finding something new. I’m excited to percentage this spirit of regain with kids everywhere this summer. I promise through our dive too the residue of Camp Google, nosotros tin give the axe inspire kids to decease along bespeak questions... too leave of absence in that place to regain answers.
Update July 15: We heard that unopen to of you lot weren't able to watch the alive stream—sorry close the rocky waters. But you lot tin give the axe straight off select handgrip of the video at http://goo.gl/7pJJUv. After you've heard from Sylvia too Erika, you lot tin give the axe acquire a fighting to a greater extent than close buoyancy too endeavor to make things float yourself!
(Cross-posted on the Google for Education Blog)
The body of body of water receive got my attending during a solid unit of measurement see to a New Bailiwick of Jersey beach when I was 3 years old—a moving ridge knocked me over! At historic menses 12, a motion to the Florida coast made the body of body of water my backyard, too I loved the abundance of life there—every twenty-four hours I encountered novel creatures similar starfish, sponges, horseshoe crabs, seaweed, too a wondrous array of pocket-sized fish that I’d never seen before. I knew from too thence on that when I grew upwardly I would endure a scientist thence I could maintain exploring, no thing what.
Now I acquire to percentage my honey for the body of body of water with a novel generation of adventurers every bit role of Camp Google, a novel online military camp for curious kids, starting. During each of the 4 weeks of Camp Google, kids 7-10 tin give the axe explore dissimilar subjects yesteryear joining alive adventures—from the depths of the Atlantic to the tumble out of i of the world’s most active volcanoes—and doing fun scientific discipline projects. Today at 12 p.m. PT, National Geographic diver Erika Bergman too I volition direct hold kids on the receive adventure—a live dive inwards the Atlantic Ocean. We’ll caput to the northernmost role of Florida Reef Tract, the most extensive living coral reef arrangement inwards North America. Whether it endure the Hammerhead Reef or shipwrecks similar the Jay Scutti, it volition endure exciting to watch what we’ll regain downward there!
After the dive, kids tin give the axe acquire hands-on with a arrive at of activities to help them sympathize the scientific discipline behind what they’ve seen underwater. The activities are designed yesteryear the Google engineers who map the oceans with Google Earth, too tin give the axe endure done with uncomplicated household supplies. For example, we’ll learn close buoyancy too how things float inwards the body of body of water inwards an experiment with eggs, H2O too salt, too we’ll explore how dolphins utilization sounds to watch underwater yesteryear building a sonar system. As kids consummate these projects, they’ll earn military camp badges to celebrate the novel skills they learned, similar conquering echolocation (not bad for summertime vacation!). The activities are designed for kids to exercise on their own, inwards groups with their friends, or with their families.
Following Ocean Week, kids tin give the axe boundary into Space Week with a NASA astronaut too VSauce where they volition help fix upwardly infinite nutrient too acquire how astronauts consume inwards space. After that, they’ll caput to Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park with a National Park Ranger too Derek Muller to acquire to a greater extent than close how volcanoes form. And military camp ends inwards means with Music Week, where kids tin give the axe jam with Zendaya to acquire close why music makes us desire to bust a move. We hosts can't await to explore with you lot this summer, wherever you lot mightiness be!
Update July 15: We heard that unopen to of you lot weren't able to watch the alive stream—sorry close the rocky waters. But you lot tin give the axe straight off select handgrip of the video at http://goo.gl/7pJJUv. After you've heard from Sylvia too Erika, you lot tin give the axe acquire a fighting to a greater extent than close buoyancy too endeavor to make things float yourself!
(Cross-posted on the Google for Education Blog)