In this way, the students experience the nature of the work for each of these specialists. The instructor is building up the learning opportunity in the form of a game. Using video clips from The Great Ocean Rescue simulation software from Tom Snyder Productions, Inc., the teacher sets up the compelling situation. The videos are scenarios that depict a control center for ocean research. Due to inclement weather, the control center has lost contact with several of its vessels.
Students play the role of researchers in the ocean control center.
Then the entire class must reach consensus about the assumed location and any tests that should be conducted so that the control center can send out a rescue mission. In this way, students are stimulated to translate their work into a real-world situation. Another part of the situation that makes it compelling for students is that they are required to calculate the costs of each test conducted to help determine the location of the lost vessel and to figure out the most feasible plan. Great ocean rescue lesson plan . University of Northern Iowa.