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Welcome to Global Heartbeat! This training CD was developed by the College of Exploration, with funding from the University of Southern California Sea Grant Program. It is intended to be a step-by-step guide for teachers who are getting started in the Global Heartbeat program. The CD contains classroom-ready lessons and worksheets, video clips, protocols for using the CAPMON equipment, and resources on inquiry-based learning and bioindicators. Global Heartbeat is a hands-on aquatic environmental science and educational program which brings together high school students, research scientists, and teachers to develop a program that involves recording the heartbeats of crabs and other organisms. Monitoring a crab's heartbeat provides an indication of its health, in the same way that a doctor checks a human's pulse. This new technique is the scientific foundation of this monitoring and educational program. Global Heartbeat has the potential to serve as one possible indicator of ecological degradation and of impacts on marine biological diversity. Global Heartbeat is envisioned as a program that will lead to increased awareness of marine health, biodiversity, and water toxin issues. Ultimately, the program will serve as a basis for sound conservation practices, starting with the corps of students involved at the various locations. Students in the program will collect crabs from their local waters and monitor the crabs' heartbeats in a controlled laboratory setting. Students in the program will also conduct research on local water quality through published statistics and information, share data over the World Wide Web, and participate in an international online discussion forum with scientists and the other student participants. They will be aided by supporting educational materials developed by partners and sponsors in the program. |
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