Wendy what is your email address? I am in the process of developing a new curriculum for my students in geoscience education and this will be an amazing course thanks Tibi
 
 
Tibi Marin, NASA/JPL/SSA
Native Ways of Knowing
Geoscience Instructor
Turtle Mountain Community College
Belcourt, ND 58316
 
 

"Today the human race is a single twig on the tree of life, a single species on a single planet. Our condition can thus only be described as extremely fragile, endangered by forces of nature currently beyond our control, our own mistakes, and other branches of the wildly blossoming tree itself. Looked at this way, we can then pose the question of the future of humanity on Earth, in the solar system, and in the galaxy from the standpoint of both evolutionary biology and human nature. The conclusion is straightforward: Our choice is to grow, branch, spread and develop, or stagnate and die."
Robert Zubrin, Entering Space, 1999



----- Original Message ----
From: "Van Norden, Wendy" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2008 12:19:18 PM
Subject: Re: Geo-educators for Lab Link:EARTHTIME

Sure. I would be happy to post the information.  What a wonderful way to teach geology!

 

 The honors geology is a new course that I have developed with UCLA with the help of an NSF grant.   My students get credit at UCLA (an attempt to compete with AP science courses). I am now in the process of giving teacher workshops at GSA, NSTA, etc. to promote the course.  If you know any local high school teachers that would like to work with your university to initiate a similar course, give them my name.   

Wendy Van Norden

Harvard-Westlake School

3700 Coldwater Canyon

No. Hollywood, CA 91604

818 487-6665

 


From: GEOEDUCATION RESEARCH INTEREST GROUP [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Robert Thomas
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 9:55 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Geo-educators for Lab Link:EARTHTIME

 

Wendy,

 

It is great to hear that a high school has an honors geology class! I am in Montana, and geology (earth science) is relegated to a "bone-head" science course for freshmen. In any case, I was wondering if you might be willing to post some information on our program at Montana Western for your students to see. I have a very nice poster and some fliers. Montana Western is the first and only public university in the U.S. to offer classes one at a time (block scheduling). We use it to teach students in the field (almost 100%), and given our setting in southwest Montana, the students work in places like Yellowstone National Park. The campus boasts about 1200 students who are eager and hard working. 

 

In any case, it is good to hear about the honors geology program. Thanks.......Rob

 

 

On Jan 8, 2008, at 10:33 AM, Van Norden, Wendy wrote:



When is this happening? My high school honors geology class is studying
geologic time right now.

-----Original Message-----
From: GEOEDUCATION RESEARCH INTEREST GROUP
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Britta Bookhagen
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 8:32 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Geo-educators for Lab Link:EARTHTIME

I am writing to inform interested teachers about the Lab Link: EARTHTIME
Project.
Please pass this email on to teachers and colleagues you think might be
interested.


Lab Link: EARTHTIME is a major initiative funded by the NSF to push the
science
of geochronology forward and the PI is Sam Bowring of MIT.  There is
also an
educational outreach component of the program that  is being largely run
by the
Denver Museum of Nature and Science.  We at the MIT museum in
conjunction with
Bowring and his colleagues at the Denver Musuem of Nature and science
(DMNS)
plan to expand these outreach activities, especially in the northeast.
Our
component will be to connect high school students from the Boston area
(and
nationally) with researchers in the Bowring Lab via the MIT Museum's
MIT360
space for live audience video programs about the topic earth time/age of
rocks.
Ultimately this will be expanded to other labs as well.

A selected audience of local high school earth science students will
attend a
live conversation among researchers at the MIT Museum while an online
audience
of schools from across the US will watch a live webcast and contribute
questions through teleconferencing.

A live video setup at the Bowring Lab will provide students with an
immediate
and interactive glimpse of a working laboratory for geochronology, and
allow
for moderated conversation among all parties: students watching the
webcast,
students in the live audience, researchers at the MIT Museum, and
researchers
in the Bowring Lab.

Student engagement will continue after the event via online archived
video and
follow-up lesson plans developed by the MIT Museum and the Bowring Lab.
Evaluation will be conducted through feedback collected from teachers in
participating schools.
Further information about the EARTHTIME project can be found on the
webpage
http://www.earth-time.org/

If you are interested in joining us (no matter if attending live or not)
or if
you have any questions, please contact me at [log in to unmask]


sincerely

Britta Bookhagen

 


________________________________________________________

 

Robert C. Thomas, Ph.D.

Professor of Geology

Department of Environmental Sciences

The University of Montana Western

Dillon, MT 59725

Phone: (406) 683-7615

Cell: (406) 925-3946

FAX: (406) 683-7493

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