Re: Teaching Advice - secondary earth and space science


"Hillsie" <hockihills@xxxxxxxxx> skrev i en meddelelse
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Hello Group -

I'm looking for some advice and it seems this site definately likes to
share ideas.

I'm currently student teaching in an urban school district, teaching a
section on earth science in 8th grade. Through some weird twist of fate
(or whatever you'd like to attribute this to), I was placed at in a
school district with no real earth science program and with a teacher
who has no experience in earth science. So I'm basicaslly on my own
deciding curriculum.

*****What kind of information would you, as professionals in the earth
science/geology profession, want these 8th grade kids to come away?****

Something that solves scarsity of water, fuels, minerals, buildingmaterials
and clean, durable environments. But that's selfevident and still leaves a
lot of choises

Geological time & hiati

Practice of spotting a discontinuity

Geological environment

Slow alteration and diagenesis

Landscape vs the rock

The global models

One of my more known professors called Geology for (direstly translated)
'Home knowledge'. In this perspective I'vd take a look around before
starting to answer. Your local geology would be an ever so good entrance to
a diverse set of topics ... maybe your question was more reasonably asked to
'consumers' of geologists - we'r the practitioners and just curious on
anything that starts with geo.

Carsten



Some background:
- I have a BS in geosciences from Penn State.
- I had worked for 9.5 years in the environmental remediation and
construction field.
- I am in a class called "technology in the classroom" which led me
(back) to this site; as an undergrad, i was looking for info on a
trilobite extinction about a decade ago and posted on here (and
to-date, have still not received any response! (kidding))

Thanks for your input ... I'd like to take your responses and
incorporate them in to my curriculum for student teaching and for when
i begin teaching my first year.

beth




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