 The Crossing Boundaries staff is developing a number of curricular units that will enable secondary students to explore and analyze biodiversity conservations issues across the globe. For example, Crossing Boundaries students will use a variety of high-quality web resources to investigate biodiversity conservation issues on a worldwide and local basis.
Through email, web-conferencing, and multimedia vignettes produced by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Crossing Boundaries students will follow the progress of Cornell graduate students conducting biodiversity-related research in a variety of international settings. Finally, Crossing Boundaries students will use satellite imagery and GIS mapping to analyze change over the past several decades in land use and vegetative cover in two international settings.
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Each year, two Cornell University graduate students who are conducting intriguing conservation-related research in international settings will be selected as Crossing Boundaries Conservation Scientists. Video-based vignettes will portray these students conducting field research, highlight their use of ICT, and include stories about how they developed interest in their area of study and the choices they made to get where they are today.
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Teachers of all types of secondary science courses are welcome to apply for the Crossing Boundaries Institute.
We especially encourage applications from those who are teaching courses for students who are characterized as academically-challenged.
 Teachers will learn about geographic information technologies, such as GIS, GPS, Google Earth, Google Maps and communication technologies, such as blogs, wikis and podcasts. These tools create powerful opportunities for teaching, learning and assessment.
Science teachers of all backgrounds and comfort-levels with technology are encouraged to apply.
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