Getting+to+know+each+other

Hello everyone! I hope that you have enjoyed the last few days of summer and are ready to go for a fun year in your classrooms. I suggested to Matthais that we form a newsgroup, but then I thought a wiki might be the better solution. You can post discussion questions, pictures or contacts for others to access.

I thought it might be nice if we all put together a little 'blurb' about ourselves and maybe included a picture so that we can continue the great conversations that we started last week.

Thanks for participating in our shared wiki!

Shelagh Lim Numeracy / Science Helping Teacher Surrey School District

Matthias Herborg This is a good idea, well you all got numerous emails from me before the meeting. Before I started as the Aquatic Invasive Species Coordinator I studied Marine Biology in Great Britain and then went on to do a PhD on the Chinese mitten Crab in the UK (an invasive species currently spreading there). After that I went on to work as a researcher at the University of Windsor and then the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in Nanaimo again dealing with aquatic invasive species.

Leif-Matthias Herborg PhD Aquatic Invasive Species Coordinator BC Ministry of Environment Victoria, BC

Shelagh Lim

I've taught in Surrey for the past 16 years - most of those years were spent in grade 7. I have been a technology integration mentor in Surrey and a teacher/mentor in SFU's TLITE program for 7 years. I have raised Coho salmon in my classroom for 10 years and have helped co-ordinate our District's Science Fair for years. I'm involved with the Coast Metro Science Performance Standards committee - this is year 5 and we hope to have a document ready to publish by June. This fall, I've begun a new chapter in my career by joining the Numeracy / Science Helping Teaching staff at our Curriculum Centre. It's going to be a steep learning curve!

Shelagh Lim Numeracy / Science Helping Teacher  Apple Distinguished Educator ~ Class of 2008

Kim Fulton (aka Dr. Fish)

I am a retired teacher/principal living in Armstrong B.C. I have always been interested in Environmental/Outdoor Education and believe in getting students outside the classroom for learning experiences. I have been deeply involved in Salmonids in the Classroom, Streamkeepers, and am a Wild B.C. facilitator. In the mid 1990's I won the Murray Newman award from the Vancouver Aquarium for Aquatic Education. Most recently I have been involved with education regarding Invasive Species. In our area, we have a huge issues with invasive plant and animals. Yellow Perch, Bass, Millfoil, and Purple Loosestrife, (among other species) have been introduced into waters of our area and are threatening native ecosystems.

Two years ago I was contracted by the Fresh Water Fisheries Society and indirectly MOE to develop some lessons around aquatic invasive species. I delivered the lessons to several schools in the Okanagan/Shuswap area to raise awareness of the dangers to ecosystems if exotic species are introduced either intentionally or unitentionally. I developed lessons for k-3, 4-5, 6-9, and 10-12 including curriculum crossmatches, games, etc. I tried to make them applicable to all parts of the province, though I know there are local issues most relevant to certain areas. The materials are adaptable.

There is no cost for these materials and they are mostly power point presentations which you can adapt and modify for your purposes. My interest is to have the materials used and to help raise awareness, increase knowledge, and promote ethical action for the students. Please contact me if you would like me to e-mail you the materials. I will try to see if it is possible and appropriate to post them on this Wiki and you could down load them at your convenience. Please contact me if you have questions.

Kim Fulton - Med kfultondr_fish@yahoo.ca 250-546-3644