{"id":29721,"date":"2025-01-23T09:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T14:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/?p=29721"},"modified":"2025-02-10T13:37:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T18:37:37","slug":"winter-2025-teachers-on-the-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/winter-2025-teachers-on-the-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers on the Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Adam-mid-flight-1.png\" data-fullsize=\"2215x1146\" data-zoom=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"530\" src=\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Adam-mid-flight-1-1024x530.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30010\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Adam-mid-flight-1-1024x530.png 1024w, https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Adam-mid-flight-1-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Adam-mid-flight-1-768x397.png 768w, https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Adam-mid-flight-1-1536x795.png 1536w, https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Adam-mid-flight-1-2048x1060.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">There was only one way on and off Frying Pan Tower for educators. Credit: <em>Teachers on the Tower<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>INTRODUCTION BY HANNE PARKS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>What better way to give educators more tools to teach about the ocean than to take them 32 miles out into the Graveyard of the Atlantic?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erika Young, Gail Lemiec, and five North Carolina educators stood on a dock in Wilmington, waiting for a boat that would take them far offshore to begin their much anticipated \u201creturnship.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A returnship offers long-time educators hands-on professional development with exciting field experiences. Lemiec, Unique Experiences Coordinator at the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher, and Young, North Carolina Sea Grant\u2019s coastal and marine education specialist, developed a fully funded six-day field-based experience for five educators across North Carolina.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The educators nervously loaded their bags \u2014 each under the 25-pound luggage limit \u2014 into a small fishing boat. After losing sight of land on the horizon and suddenly feeling the vast expanse of ocean all around them, the group spotted a speck on the horizon: Frying Pan Tower.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QM4acTiKAFA\"><strong>Watch the <em>Teachers on the Tower<\/em> video here<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Teachers on the Tower\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QM4acTiKAFA?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Young always wanted to visit the iconic Frying Pan Tower \u2014 an imposing structure that rises 135 feet above the ocean, 32 miles offshore from Bald Head Island. She knew it would be an incredible space for a marine-based field experience.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou lose sight of the land and the lighthouse, and you travel for a while, and then suddenly on the horizon you can see it. Then, little by little, it just gets bigger and bigger and bigger,\u201d said Cindy Martin, a science teacher at Montgomery County Early College. \u201cAnd I could not believe that we were going to be staying there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next adventure presented itself: getting hoisted up to the tower. One by one, the participants strapped into a harness and hooked onto the rope to be hydraulically lifted to the 75-foot-high platform.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWho are we to put this out here in the middle of the ocean,\u201d thought Adam Smith, a science teacher at South Stanly Middle School, recalling his first impression of Frying Pan Tower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Shark-close-up.png\" data-fullsize=\"2212x1126\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Shark-close-up-1024x521.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Shark-close-up-1024x521.png 1024w, https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Shark-close-up-300x153.png 300w, https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Shark-close-up-768x391.png 768w, https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Shark-close-up-1536x782.png 1536w, https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Shark-close-up-2048x1043.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Products for classrooms include 360-degree video footage, filmed beneath the tower for the educators to narrate. Credit: <em>Teachers on the Tower<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1964, the Tower was built in the Frying Pan Shoals by the United States Coast Guard. The shoals are a shifting network of shallow sands that have claimed many ships, earning them the moniker \u201cGraveyard of the Atlantic.\u201d Along with other lighthouses and lightships, Frying Pan Tower served as a beacon of safety for mariners navigating the treacherous graveyard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tower retired in 2004 due to the widespread adoption of GPS technologies. For years, it stood abandoned to rust and slowly crumble into the shoals. In 2010, Richard Neal purchased the tower, determined to give it a new purpose.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, the tower serves as an offshore outpost for marine conservation. Around 200 volunteers a year travel to the tower to work on the facility\u2019s physical restoration and preserve its place in history.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neal dreams of Frying Pan Tower becoming a marine field station for researchers, an ecotourism attraction, and an immersive learning space for educators, while still honoring its history and aiding mariners in the area.&nbsp;Young\u2019s vision excited him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Frying-Pan-Tower.png\" data-fullsize=\"2204x1148\" data-zoom=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Frying-Pan-Tower-1024x533.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Frying-Pan-Tower-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Frying-Pan-Tower-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Frying-Pan-Tower-768x400.png 768w, https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Frying-Pan-Tower-1536x800.png 1536w, https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Frying-Pan-Tower-2048x1067.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">As is the nature of a field-based experience, the weather conditions strongly dictate the schedule. Credit: <em>Teachers on the Tower<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur goal at the Frying Pan Tower is to keep people safe and to educate them,\u201d he said, \u201cso we are thrilled to death to take what is basically a fully functioning house in the ocean and use it to learn something new.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once Neal greeted the group and everyone safely made landfall on the Tower, the real fun could begin.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A typical day on the tower starts with coffee, chatting, and planning the day\u2019s science experiments. As is the nature of a field-based experience, the weather conditions strongly dictate the schedule. The educators collect the daily water sample, examine marine life under a microscope, snorkel beneath the tower, and spend time enjoying the beauty of the ocean.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lemiec gave a lecture on the Spot-A-Shark sand tiger shark conservation program, providing the educators with activities, PowerPoints, and community science projects to take back to their classrooms. Educators also planned how they would connect their experiences on the tower to required science curriculums, working together to create engaging activities that would excite their students.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Underwater-1.png\" data-fullsize=\"2195x1163\" data-zoom=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"543\" src=\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Underwater-1-1024x543.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30016\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Underwater-1-1024x543.png 1024w, https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Underwater-1-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Underwater-1-768x407.png 768w, https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Underwater-1-1536x814.png 1536w, https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Underwater-1-2048x1085.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u201cOur goal at the Frying Pan Tower is to keep people safe and to educate them,\u201d say Richard Neal, \u201cso we are thrilled to death to take what is basically a fully functioning house in the ocean and use it to learn something new.\u201d Credit: <em>Teachers on the Tower<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHaving these stories and lessons from the tower helps us connect our river basins and estuaries to the ocean,\u201d said Adam Smith, who previously struggled to find ocean-related content for his classroom. \u201cThis is our ocean that we need to take care of, and it\u2019s right there so close to us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A key product for students is 360-degree video footage, filmed beneath the tower for the educators to narrate, in which they describe varous fish species and the importance of artificial reefs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of the day, the group enjoyed incredible oceanic sunsets while cooking dinner together. \u201cThe camaraderie that was instantaneous amongst all of them,\u201d said Neal. \u201cIt felt like I was going to a family reunion, and it was only because the teachers all loved what they did.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After six days of adventures, the educators descended the same way they arrived, down onto the boat and back to shore. They took long-lasting memories, friendships, and enthusiasm for the ocean with them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/On-the-ladder.png\" data-fullsize=\"1801x1232\" data-zoom=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/On-the-ladder-1024x700.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/On-the-ladder-1024x700.png 1024w, https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/On-the-ladder-300x205.png 300w, https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/On-the-ladder-768x525.png 768w, https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/On-the-ladder-1536x1051.png 1536w, https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/On-the-ladder.png 1801w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Richard Neal dreams of Frying Pan Tower becoming a marine field station for researchers, an ecotourism attraction, and an immersive learning space for educators, while still honoring its history and aiding mariners in the area.&nbsp;Credit: <em>Teachers on the Tower<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNow I have a better understanding of the ocean,\u201d said Smith. \u201cI have pictures from my trip, I have stories, and I have resources that I can use to give engaging lessons to my students.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Becoming an educator involves rigorous study of pedagogical methods, instructional design, and curriculum standards, leaving less time for in-depth exploration of science and art. This is not to say that educators do not want to have these hands-on experiences. In fact, outdoor and field-based experiences have been shown to improve teacher health and wellbeing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt felt so real, and not like something that someone was putting on for us. It wasn\u2019t a show,\u201d said Smith. \u201cYou have to think of Plan A, B, C, and D&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;and still, when you go out there, none of those things are going to work. And you are going to have to adapt. I can now teach my students that you have to adapt&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;even as an adult&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;even as a scientist.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When teachers and educators have a deep connection with the curriculum and develop a lesson based on their own experiences, their passion for the topic sticks with their students.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cThe experience on the tower really solidified for me that teachers want those hands-on experiences,\u201d said Lemiec, who has led previous field experiences for teachers. \u201cThey want to become the scientist or become the researcher. 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