SCHEDULE:
*Oak Park Independent Study Students may attend any of these events
Monday
- Oak Hills Elementary
8:45 - 9:30 9:45 - 10:30
Tuesday
- Brookside Elementary
8:45 - 9:30 9:45 - 10:30
-Oak View High School
11:20- 12:10
***Fundraiser Bake Sale: Red Oak- 2:25
Wednesday
- Oak Park High School - 9th grade global science classes
***Fundraiser Bake Sale: Oak Hill- 2:25
Thursday
- Oak Park High School - 9th grade global science classes
***Fundraiser Bake Sale: Brookside: 2:25
Friday
- Medea Creek Middle School
8:30 - 10:10 (two assemblies)
- Red Oak Elementary
12:30 - 1:15 1:30 - 2:15
Saturday
-Oak Park High School
Super Saturday booth: open to the community
10am- 4pm
GOALS:
* To increase understanding about the role of top predators in the ocean environments in maintaining the health of marine ecosystems.
* Promote understanding of of sharks and thereby reduce irrational fear of sharks and the ocean in general, which often leads to mass killings, and general lack of concern and respect for their role in the environment.
* Learn that 70-100 million sharks a year are killed or taken from the oceans for their fins, fertilizers, or by-catch (accidentally caught when fishing for another species).
* Improve understanding of natural selection, evolution, and adaptation by learning about sharks, an amazing fish that has been around for more than 400 million years.
ACTIVITIES:
* Dr. Chris Lowe, an internationally recognized shark expert and professor at California State University Long Beach will present assemblies along with graduate research assistants at all of the elementary schools and MCMS. They will visit 9th grade Global Science classes at OPHS. There will also be opportunities for OVHS and OPIS students.
* An interactive lesson is in development by members of the Shark Team at Oak Park High School and will be available for elementary students when they visit the computer lab that week.
* Several books about sharks will be donated to each elementary school library with the request that they be read to children during their library visits that week.
* The Shark Team is reviewing several videos that will be made available to teachers that week.
* There will be Shark Bake Sales at the elementary schools that week that will feature shark shaped cookies (without artificial ingredients) to raise funds for shark research and conservation.
* There will be a fundraiser that will be run the same way that the marine wildlife fundraiser was last year during Earth Week. There will be collection containers in all K-5 classrooms and in grade 6-9 science classrooms. The funds raised will be donated for a research project on great white sharks that Dr. Lowe is working on in conjunction with the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Each school will adopt a great white shark that will be tagged in this project and will be able to track the shark's movements online. The classroom at each school will have the honor of naming the schoo's shark. The classroom in the entire District that raises the most funds will take a field trip to Dr. Lowe's new state of the art shark lab at CSULB and learn more about the project.
* On Saturday, Feb. 4, the Shark Team will host a booth at the Super Saturday event to be held at Oak Park High School from 10-4 along with other student groups
All donations are greatly appreciated! Please make donations directly through our group to ensure that your donation goes entirely to designated funds. Thank you for your support!
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