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Mary Ann, My email was a call for presentations th this Fall's Annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Minneapolis, MN (Oct 9-12). Here is a link for the GSA website. Abstracts are due by July 26th and you are typically notified late August/early Sept of the day and time of the talk. Talks are 12 minutes long with 3 minutes for questions. GSA allows people to register for just one day if that's all they can attend. http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2011/ If you can't make it, I may still might be in contact with you. I am working on a couple of project ideas, so right now I am building a list of people who teach these types of classes. Thanks for responding back. -Kyle PS. I don't know if you have realized this yet, but when you hit 'Reply" to a list-serv posting, your response goes to EVERYONE on the list, not just to the sender. I've done it before with some personal info that I didn't want to be widely distributed. :) Mary Ann Mutrux wrote: > Dear Kyle and others in List Serve, > > I teach Earth Science for Elementary Educators at Missouri State > University - West Plains. I am an adjunct instructor who has taught > the class for 3 of the past 5 years. I will be teaching this class > next year and for some time in the foreseeable future. I have taught > Earth Science and General Science for 26 years in two rural public > school districts in the Missouri Ozarks. I have had a few students > both in grade 8 and college! I have found some successful strategies > and I have had many frustrations! I wish that I could attend your > session, but I don't have any travel accounts available as an adjunct. > I will gladly write up a short summary of my successes and > frustrations. Is their a certain format that you desire? Is a first > person summary of my experiences acceptable? When is the due date? > Lastly, I would really like to have some sort of summary from your > workshop. Will this be possible? I am basically on my own with this > class. I am glad to find out that I am not alone in my "world." > > Respectfully, > Mary Ann Mutrux > > On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Kyle Gray <[log in to unmask] > <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: > > As you return from the July 4th holiday, Ann Bykerk-Kauffman > and myself would like to encourage submissions to our session > (T178) on teaching earth science content to preservice elementary > teachers. The session info and abstract are listed below. We > envision this session as a forum for discussing the different > strategies that we use in our courses as well as barriers or > frustrations that we have encountered. Feel free to contact us if > you have any questions. > > -Kyle Gray > > T178. *Reaching the Next Generation: Tales of Successful > Strategies and Frustrating Challenges from Teaching Earth-Science > Courses For Pre-Service Elementary Teachers* > /GSA Geoscience Education Division; National Association of > Geoscience Teachers/ > Kyle Gray, Ann Bykerk-Kauffman > Content courses specifically designed for pre-service > elementary teachers often present unique challenges for > instructors. This session includes effective course designs, > lessons, methodologies, and research findings on factors that > improve student learning within this context. > > > > > -- > Mary Ann Mutrux > Middle School Science Teacher > > >