COSEE-OS is dedicated to fostering educator-scientist collaborations with a focus on investigating how inland audiences
can better understand how the oceans affect their everyday lives. Since 2006, over 100 educators from 18 states -- as far away
as Texas, Idaho and New Mexico -- have participated in professional development activities sponsored by COSEE-OS.
Sharon Gallant teaches environmental science at Gardiner Area High School, where she is also known as the
"Queen of Green" for her role in encouraging students to adopt an environmental stewardship ethic. She received her M.S.
in geosciences from Mississippi State University and was a participant at the COSEE-OS Educator-Scientist Climate Change
Workshop at the Darling Marine Center in November 2008.
Teaching science through both research and projects integrating cross-curricular principles and activities allows students to
apply relevance to learning. By finding real-world situations where students can ask their own questions, run their own
experiments, and make their own interpretations, they acquire the tools to develop and design solutions to problems. Ted brings
real-world situations into the classroom, to bring students closer to understanding and appreciating our need to construct
knowledge through science and design solutions through engineering and collaboration.
Tracy Vassiliev
James F. Doughty School and William S. Cohen School
Bangor, Maine
As a middle school teacher Tracy's intention is to apply what she's learned from COSEE-OS to interconnect and broaden the
understanding of fundamental physical science concepts. Science teachers like Tracy, end up with students who have a better
understanding of fundamental science concepts while COSEE-OS gets teachers and students that have a better understanding of
ocean processes through inquiry. Tracy participates in the SDC Partnerships program through the
Young Environmental Leaders Spring Break Program.
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