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Classroom equipment and displays built by the author and his students

The author's Marine Science Honors Summer Seminar
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....at Leo Carillo State Beach, CA 1970

Demonstration setup for the operating principle
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...of Lord Kelvin's recording Tide Guage

Classroom weather station
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Note the two smaller portable units and blue viewing scope sitting on top of the station.

Students at work on summer project
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...constructing a saltwater aquarium (Sun Valley JHS)

Student at work with Polaroid microscope adapter
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...to photograph plankton collected on field trips (Sun Valley JHS)

The author's son David at work on
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...a hydrophone for use with a cassette tape recorder

Weather station, saltwater aquaria and portable
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...field lab unit on the counter (Room 100, SunValley JHS)

Teacher-built refrigerated saltwater aquarium
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...includes 55-gal. spare saltwater tank, refrigeration unit, and 2 large (125 & 65 gal.)aquaria

Close up detail of teacher-built
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...PVC bottom filter and coral shingle gravel.

Handbuilt rack for cleaning coral gravel
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Under the student's table sink, with the use fo perforated plastic filter tubes. (Marshall HS)

Byron E. Jordan, EdD, Author
Marine Science Educator
16722 Pineridge Drive 
Granada Hills, CA 91344-1850
Phone/Fax: 818-366-2371
 

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The Restless Sea
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