LAKE FOREST : Teacher Selected for Project Off Belize
A Lake Forest teacher has been selected to accompany a group of students on an expedition to an ocean reef off the Central American country of Belize, one of only six teachers in the country to participate in the special project.
Linda Cotter, who teaches sixth grade at Lake Forest Elementary School, will be the only teacher from California in the expedition, part of this year’s JASON Project.
In March, she will accompany a group of ninth- and 10th-grade students, also selected through a nationwide competition, to the reef, where they will conduct experiments dealing with the interaction between animals and other marine life.
The brainchild of Robert D. Ballard of the Woods Hole Institute in Massachusetts, the JASON Project is designed to excite students about science and technology and to train and motivate their teachers.
Cotter, a teacher in the Saddleback Valley Unified School District for the past seven years, first learned about the JASON Project through a teachers’ seminar offered by the Orange County Marine Institute and has been using the program in her classroom for two years.
Start your day right
Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
