More on LIVE Broadcasts... Checklist for Participating in an EstuaryLIVE Broadcast Schedule Preparing you Students to Participate in the EstuaryLIVE Broadcast Registration – Opens Fall of 2008 Equipment Needs Frequently Asked Questions National Estuaries Day  Celebrate your local estuary September 27, 2008!  About National Estuaries Day Teacher and Students –check out a list of simple things you can do to participate in this celebration!

• Live Broadcasts
• Archived Broadcasts
• Video Collection
• Virtual Field-trips

Live EstuaryLive Broadcasts
Live broadcasts are the cornerstone of EstuaryLIVE. These broadcasts provide opportunities for participants to interact with the field trip leaders while on air!

Live broadcasts are interactive fieldtrips that bring estuaries from around the country directly to your school via the Internet. These online field trips allow students to explore estuaries in several states and ask the fieldtrip leaders questions during the broadcasts. Many of these questions will be answered live during the broadcast.

The next live broadcasts will take place in the spring of 2009. Find more information about live broadcasts in the box to the right.

Archived EstuaryLive Broadcasts
EstuaryLive is 6 years old! View archieved EstuaryLive broadcast from past years. Integrate these archived video into your lessons by specific topics or from specific coastal areas.

Video Collection - Coming Fall 2008!
Access over 50 video clips on estuarine topics. These videos, from the annual EstuaryLive Webcasts, can be used by teachers to create their own virtual field trips (read more on SciVi Field Trips below). EstuaryLive video clips become starting or entry points to help students connect with people and places related to estuarine science. These video clips can also be used by students in developing their own presentations about estuaries, or be incorporated into other media. By incorporating relevant video clips into activities and lessons, students and teachers provide real context and enliven their projects.

Virtual Field Trips - Coming Fall 2008!
Today’s students learn with dynamic text, sounds, and images that race across screens of light. With the introduction of new digital media technologies, educators and media producers are producing shorter video segments called “learning objects” for the Web. With this in mind, the NERRS has worked to repurpose the best of the EstuaryLive video clips (or digital learning objects), real-time data collection, and Web 2.0 applications so that students are actively engaged in generating their own compelling questions, researching those questions, synthesizing their learning into a multimedia online report, sharing what they learn, and then evaluating both their process and impact. We call this Science Virtual Field Trips or SciVi Field Trips. Five sample SciVi Field Trips will be developed and published on the Web using Google Sites and Google Docs so that teachers can see how a “backpack” (in problem based learning (PBL) usually called a “briefcase”) containing all the assignments, resources, management forms, and assessment tools looks like on the Web. Learn more about SciVi Field Trips.