DATE(S) OF WORKSHOPS:
July 19-25
July 26-August 1, 1998
Steamboat Springs, CO
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This course will provide hands-on instruction in the selection, installation and use of meteorological instruments, with special focus on applications to environmental monitoring. The course will also include a computer-based training module on atmospheric technology, which participants can take back to their classroom. Course fee for this Advanced Technological Education Workshop is $150 and includes food and lodging at Colorado Mountain College and the mountaintop Storm Peak Laboratory. Graduate credit is available. |
| CONTACT: | Dr. Melanie Wetzel | Desert Research Institute
P.O. Box 60220 Reno, NV 89506 Phone: 702-677-3137 Fax: 702-677-3157 E-mail: wetzel@dri.edu |
| Improving Delivery in Geoscience: Techniques and Strategies in Undergraduate Geoscience Teaching for all Students |
DUE 9653435 |
| APPLICATION DEADLINE: DATE(S) OF WORKSHOP: |
March 15, 1998 July 18-24, 1998 |
SITE(S): | University of South
Carolina
Columbia, SC |
| The American Geological Institute will offer three one-week workshops for teams of undergraduate faculty and K12 teachers in the geosciences and related academic fields. Undergraduate institutions, including two- and four-year colleges, are invited to assemble teams of three to five members who would like to design or revise an introductory geoscience course. For each conference, participants will be composed of eight to ten teams of three to five faculty. Participants will learn a variety of ways to use alternative teaching strategies, incorporate state-of-the-art instructional technology, and employ a selection of assessment tools. Each participant will revise or design a geoscience course that meets a specific need in their institution and could serve as a model for the design of courses. Some of the teaching strategies to be discussed are the use of enhanced lectures, group collaboration, jig-sawing, think-pair-sharing, and other techniques. The National Association of Geoscience Teachers will sponsor a symposium at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, at which the workshops will be discussed and each team will analyze the development, organization, and evaluation of its course. The first workshop was held in July 1997 at the Colorado School of Mines. The second workshop will be held at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina in July 1998, with the third workshop at Cypress College in Southern California in 1999. |
| CONTACT: | Philip Astwood
Center for Science Education or Marilyn Suiter |
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC Phone: 803-777-6920 Fax: 803-777-8267 E-mail: pastwood@psa.sc.edu American Geological Institute 4220 King Street Alexandria, VA 22302-1502 Phone: 703-379-2480 Fax: 703-379-7563 E-mail: ehr@agiweb.org |
| Great Lakes Consortium Summer Practicum in Applied Environmental Problem-Solving | DUE 9752783 |
| APPLICATION DEADLINE:
DATE(S) OF WORKSHOP: | March 16, 1998
June 7-22, 1998 |
SITE(S): | Lake Ontario at
SUNY Oswego |
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The goals of the Great Lakes Consortium Summer Practicum in Applied Environmental Problem-Solving are to encourage participants to revise or create new multidisciplinary environmental science courses based on applied environmental problem solving; to expose participants to innovative new theoretical and practical techniques being used in the Great Lakes basin; and to introduce faculty to involved scientists. The project theme (environmental impact analysis) ties together the methods necessary for analyzing and solving environmental problems. The project also addresses the gap existing between the availability of up-to-date information about a major national resource (the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence ecosystem) and what is currently taught at the undergraduate level. The practicum will familiarize participants with related developments in environmental analysis; cascading trophic dynamics, particle-size spectrum theory, and endocrine system-disrupting pollutants; and environmental sampling, analytical methods, and mass balance/bioenergetics modeling of toxic chemical dynamics in aquatic ecosystems. Scientists with the Great Lakes Research Consortium who have made significant contributions in these fields are leading each of the practicum's modules. Although the Great Lakes are used as an example, the theories, methods and models learned are applicable anywhere. The three-week practicum in June 1998 combines field and lab experience, classroom instruction and skills development exercises in four course modules: (1) Great Lakes Ecosystem Science/Issues and Lake Ontario Environments; (2) Techniques for Analyzing Toxic Chemicals Commonly Found in the Great Lakes; (3) Ecosystem Modeling with Spreadsheets: Mass Balance/Bioenergetics, and (4) Writing an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and Developing Problem-solving Curricula for Undergraduates. |
| CONTACT: | Jack Manno | SUNY College of Environmental
Science and Forestry 1 Forest Drive, 331 Marshall Hall Syracuse, NY 13210 Phone: 315-470-6816 Fax: 315-470-6970 |
| The Earth and Space Science Technological Education Project (ESSTEP) | DUE 9602408 |
| APPLICATION DEADLINE:
DATE(S) OF WORKSHOP: |
March 1, 1998
July 6-18, 1998 July 27-August 8, 1998 |
SITE(S):
Cypress, CA
Boulder, CO |
| ESSTEP workshops promote and disseminate exemplary educational applications of technologies
such as geographical information systems, image processing, global positioning systems,
multimedia, and the Internet for classroom use in grades 8-14. This program is intended for
earth, physical, and life science faculty as well as mathematics, technology, and geography.
ESSTEP increases faculty knowledge and use of these new technologies while providing support
for classroom infusion. ESSTEP's approach to teaching and learning is inquiry-based and
modeled after the recommendations of the National Science Education Standards.
More information is available at http://www.geosociety.org/educate/teach.htm |
| CONTACT: | Dr. Edward E. Geary
Dr. Dorothy Stout Dr. Paul Dusenbery or Holly Devaul |
Geological Society of America
P.O. Box 9140 Boulder, CO 80301 Phone: 303-447-2020 ext. 150 Fax: 303-447-1133 E-mail: hdevaul@geosociety.org |
| National Association of Geoscience Teachers Workshops for Early Career Faculty in the Geosciences: Teaching, Research, and Managing Your Career |
DUE 9752794 |
| APPLICATION DEADLINE:
DATE(S) OF WORKSHOP: |
to be determined to be determined |
SITE(S): | to be determined |
| A four-to-five day workshop will include plenary sessions, mini-workshops, and break-out groups on the following topics: the basics of teaching, active learning strategies, integrating research and research-like experiences into all geoscience classes, supervision of undergraduate research, grading and assessment, and life as a new faculty member. Examples of syllabi, assignments, and activities for introductory and upper-level geoscience courses will be distributed, and participants and presenters will meet to share ideas and strategies for teaching those courses. Workshop is open to an intended audience of faculty members in their first four years of full-time teaching. Instructors include Heather Macdonald (College of William and Mary), Barbara J. Tewksbury (Hamilton College), and Randall M. Richardson (University of Arizona). |
| CONTACT: | R. Heather Macdonald
Geology Department |
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795 Phone: 757-221-2443 Fax: 757-221-2093 E-mail: rhmacd@facstaff.wm.edu |
