* Do you and your students want one more BioSITE classroom visit this year?
*Would you be interested in exploring more parts of our watershed virtually using high-resolution panoramic photographs on the computer?
*Do you have a relatively small class? (closer to 20 than 30)
*Do you have 30-60 min of classroom time available between 9am and 1pm on a Wed or Thur in May?
There are many parts of the watershed that we'd like to take students to investigate, but don't always get the chance. As a result, we've been taking large-format digital panoramas of some of them for use in the program. We're working up a new lesson using these photographs to further explore our watershed that I can bring into classrooms on our museum laptops. No network access is required.
Contact me at biosite.river@gmail.com if you're interested in helping us test out this lesson. I can schedule the first three interested classes in May. Thanks!
If you want to explore one of the online example photos, here's a shot of Guadalupe Creek in the fog near where it starts on the slopes of Mt. Umunhum.
Double-click on a part of the panorama to zoom, drag it to move around, or click on one of the snapshots at the bottom to see where it is located in the bigger picture. This one's online, so it may take a minute or two to load fully.
You can use the controls to zoom in and examine quite a bit of detail -- one fun activity on this particular panorama is to see how many different spiderwebs students can find. We've taken snapshots of a few of them, but are sure you can find others!
