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.