Questions for UNAVCO E&O staff

Comment on this post with questions directed at UNAVCO staff. Confused about an activity? Not sure how to find something we covered in your workshop? Here is the place to ask!

Recent workshop attendees feedback

Did you recently attend a UNAVCO workshop? Now that you've had some time to reflect, and possibly apply some of the material we covered, what was the best part of the workshop? What would you like to see changed? What other types of follow-up would you like UNAVCO to provide? Reply by commenting on this post!

Questions for other teachers: What did and didn't work when you used a UNAVCO activity in your classroom?

Comment on this post and share a teaching experience using UNAVCO materials in the classroom. What activity did you use? Did you change anything? What teaching tips would you offer to other teachers? What else would you like to see UNAVCO create to compliment the activity?

Welcome!

Welcome to UNAVCO's Education and Outreach blogs! These blogs are intended to be a resource for teachers who have attended our workshops, and would like to communicate with other teachers and UNAVCO E&O staff about the use of UNAVCO materials in the classroom, as well as for those who haven't attended a workshop but are using our materials and would like a forum for discussion. We will also post updates when we have new materials, and information about upcoming workshops and other activites at UNAVCO.

UNAVCO, a non-profit, membership-governed consortium, supports and promotes Earth science by advancing high-precision techniques for the measurement and understanding of deformation. UNAVCO also supports education to meet the needs of the community and the public.

Part of UNAVCO Education and Outreach is holding educational workshops for secondary and undergraduate educators around the country on the application of high-precision GPS data to teaching about plate tectonics. During a workshop, we provide a high-precision GPS primer and concrete examples of quantitative skills, we cover how to download GPS data sets and construct and interpret time series, and we discuss techniques for classroom integration and how to access web-based UNAVCO resources.

We have a wide range of educational materials, including lesson plans, map-making tools, and processed GPS data illustrating various tectonic processes. All of our materials are available online at: http://www.unavco.org/edu_outreach/data.html.

Please email Celia Schiffman at celias@unavco.org with comments or suggestions on the UNAVCO E&O blogs.