Project Noah Updates

I’ve had quite a few questions about the Project Noah website and entering data. There are two ways to participate:

1. Home Schoolers Not in the Wildlife Biology Block

Step 1: Go to the Project Noah website: http://www.projectnoah.org/

Step 2: Click on the button that says “Join Project Noah”. You can join either with G-mail, Yahoo, FB, or another e-mail of your choosing.

Step 3: Once you join you’ll create your profile.

Step 4: After you’ve joined you need to join a mission or missions. The one for SERC is the “Wildlife of SERC” here’s a link to this particular mission-http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/35153002.

NOTE: You can join as many missions as you like, local or global. For each sighting or picture that you put into Noah you can assign the image to up to 5 different missions.

Step 5: Add as many pictures as you can, by submitting sightings (there’s a green button on your home page). You will earn virtual patches for your spottings.

2. Home Schoolers in the Wildlife Biology Block

NOTE: Digital cameras are not required for class, but students are welcome to bring them, or their phones, if they wish to take pictures. I’ll be adding pictures that I take the Project Noah website for everyone regardless. This is just a fun way to add technology in being outdoors, and participate in a global data gathering mission.

Step 1: Go to the Project Noah website specifically for our classes: http://www.projectnoah.org/students

Step 2: Each student will have their own unique log in, with the same password. I will send you a username and password via e-mail shortly. NOTE: The user account you sign up for can also be used for other missions besides just the class mission. The class mission is only for US! No one else can join, but you can join many other public missions and earn virtual patches.

Step 3: Once you join you’ll create your profile. There’s a link under the empty picture of you that says “settings”, that’s where you create your profile.

Step 4: Add as many pictures as you can, by submitting sightings (there’s a green button on your home page).  For each sighting or picture that you put into Noah you can assign the image to up to 5 different missions.

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Wildlife Biology Block 2 and Project Noah

SPECIES STUDY LISTS

For those of you in the Wildlife Biology Block 2 class, I am posting the species list of creatures that students will need to know for their practical. Here is the list for the 8-12 yr. olds Species study list (8-12 yr. olds) and the list for the 13-16 yr. olds Species study list (13-16 yr. olds).

I am not requiring that they know the Latin names (13-16’s can stop sweating 🙂 but I do require that they use their field guides to look up the animals and become familiar with them by sight. I’ll be creating a lab practicum with skins, skulls, and photos of these creatures that they will need to identify.  Here is a pictorial guide for the students to use to practice:

For the 8-12 yr. olds:Study animal cards (8-12yr. olds)

For the 13-16 yr. olds:Study animal cards

PROJECT NOAH

http://www.projectnoah.org/

Even if you’re not in the Wildlife Biology Block you can still help us! SERC now has a Project Noah mission, called “Wildlife of SERC” http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/35153002. Project Noah is a great biodiversity project aimed at cataloging plants, wildlife, insects, and animals in local communities and around the world. All you have to do is upload your images, try to identify your organisms (and if you can’t their experts will help), and keep going! Participants earn virtual badges for their achievements.

Project Noah also ties into the National Geographic database of FieldScope http://chesapeake.fieldscope.org/ . Which is a useful teaching tool for home school parents too.

For the Wildlife biology class we will adding photos, from each class, to Project Noah. If you like you can start an account and join us!

Here’s a screen shot of some of the images uploaded so far.

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