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Date: Saturday, September 23, 2000
Time: 9:00 a.m. 4:00 p.m.
Cost: $35.00
Credit: 0.7 CEU for full day (no partial)
Location: Monterey/Carmel Rooms,
Doubletree Hotel, San Jose
The Association of Engineering Geologists
(AEG) and Groundwater Resources Association (GRA) are pleased
to offer an earth-science teacher's workshop in conjunction with
their 2000 annual meeting in San Jose.
The goal is to inform local teachers about
methods and teaching resources available in earth science and
about some interesting aspects of local geology that can be conveyed
to students.
While we don't have any active volcanoes or dinosaur bones around
San Jose, we still have lots of unique, interesting local geology
to interest students, like landslides and earthquake faults.
And there are important earth science concepts relevant to all
students everywhere. One aim of AEG and GRA is to promote public
understanding of engineering geology, which includes the teaching
of earth science in the classroom.
This is not just for earth science teachers,
but for all teachers who want to include earth science
lessons in their teaching. Most likely to benefit will be teachers
of grades 4 to 12.
SCHEDULE
9:00 9:15 Welcome and Introduc-tion.
9:15 10:00 Local Rocks, Faults,
Landslides, and Dams.
Local geologists Jim Nelson and
Frank Groffie will give a brief overview of local geology and
dams and describe places around San Jose to take students to
see geology in action.
10:00 - 11:00 Teaching Resources of
California Division Of Mines and Geology (CDMG).
Geologist Ted Smith and others
from CDMG will present teaching resources available from this
important California state agency. Participants will receive
a large bound set of Teacher Feaures. These articles,
which appear frequently in California Geology magazine,
describe lessons in California geology suitable for K-12 class-rooms.
11:00 12:00 and 1:00 4:00.
This Dynamic Planet: A Teaching Companion.
Leslie Gordon, with the U.S. Geological
Survey in Menlo Park, will present her workshop on methods and
content in earth science. Ms. Gordon has been presenting earth-science
teaching workshops for nearly 2 decades.
U.S. Geological Survey scientists and classroom teachers from
across the country are creating a new "Teaching Companion"
to accompany the popular USGS world map of volcanoes, earthquakes,
and plate tectonics, "This Dynamic Planet," and the
book This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics.
The companion includes classroom activities, science updates,
important concepts about plate tectonics, and additional diagrams,
maps, and resources. In this workshop for teachers of grades
6-12, we'll review content, do several of the hands-on activities,
and explore where plate tectonics fits in across the curriculum.
Participants will receive copies of the map and book, and excerpts
from the draft "Teaching Compan-ion."
Note: We
will break from 12:00 to 1:00 for lunch (provided!) and a walk
of the exhibit hall.
Registration: To
register, fill in and return a registration form. To download
a form, visit AEG on the web at www.aegweb.org.
Click on the Annual Meeting 2000 link, then click on the
Registration link. Or phone Frank Groffie, 510-636-2123.
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