Shelley Olds and Kate Tallerday of the UNAVCO Education and Outreach team are in Flagstaff, Arizona this weekend to help teach a workshop entitled Exploring Southwest Geology and Geophysics through the EarthScope Program. The workshop is funded by EarthScope and is a collaborative effort between educators at UNAVCO, IRIS, and Arizona State University.
Eighteen teachers from nine different schools and colleges throughout Arizona will come together to explore EarthScope learning activities as they relate to the geology and geophysics of the American Southwest. The teachers range from elementary educators to college level faculty.
Course instructors Shelley Olds (UNAVCO), Patrick McQuillan (IRIS), and Steve Semken (Arizona State University) anticipate that teachers will be able to describe why EarthScope is investigating the geophysics of the Southwest, how understanding the past can help us understand the present and future & how present day geologic phenomena can help us understand the past. The course will build upon teachers' existing knowledge and skills in order to improve their foundation in geophysics and be able to implement EarthScope activities in their classrooms.
Participants will really start moving and shaking as they learn to use "earthquake machines" and build their own seismograph models to use back in their classrooms.
Steve Semken plans to incorporate a place-based Earth science component into the workshop since all of the participants teach in the southwest region.
Stay tuned for more updates from the workshop!
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This is absolutely one of the best professional development I ever had. I really surprised about the amount of knowledge I gained through this workshop in one day. I hope to participate in this kind of workshops in the future too.
Thank you,
Kiran
Thanks so much for your comment Kiran. Please stay in touch after the workshop and let us know how it goes back in your classroom!
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