Exchange of Ideas
Cammie Jones (right) and Sarah Orlando, Ohio Clean Marinas Program Manager, examine the glacial grooves on Kelley’s Island.
A big part of the Stone Lab experience, aside from doing science in a real-world island setting, is exploring knowledge and sharing ideas with like-minded individuals from all over the Great Lakes region. This can be especially important for working professionals like the educators that take classes at Stone Lab every summer, as this exchange of ideas helps them adapt learning to their specific education setting.
Cammie Jones, a fourth-grade teacher at DeWitt Public Schools north of Lansing, Michigan, participated in the 2013 Great Lakes Education class at Stone Lab, and really enjoyed the networking that comes with living with your classmates on a Lake Erie island. The course was taught by Dr. Rosanne Fortner, Ohio Sea Grant’s former Education Director, and Lyndsey Manzo, Ohio Sea Grant Educator and a science teacher at Westerville North High School.