Webinar Description:
Tue, Dec 1, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PMHangouts On Air - Broadcast for free
Join us for a discussion about new classroom resources from NOVA’s Making North America — a 3-part series that tells the 3-billion year story of our continent’s geological formation and evolution. Special guests Rob Ross and Don Duggan-Haas of the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) will discuss strategies on how to connect the content of Making North America to local and regional Earth science.
On December 1st at 7PM EST / 4PM PST, we’ll look at a range of free resources, including PRI’s Teacher-Friendly Guides to the Earth Science of the United States, which provide a blueprint for engaging grades 6-12 students in actual Earth science fieldwork within their geographic region.
The Links:
- NOVA
- Making North America
- Making North America Interactive Map
- PBS Learning Media Resources for Making North America
- Granite vs. Basalt Formation video clip and related resources
- teacherfriendlyguide.org
- The Teacher-Friendly Guides to the Earth Science of the United States
- Real and Virtual Fieldwork: "Why Does This Place Look the Way it Does?"
- NGSS appendix: The Teacher-Friendly Guides™, Virtual Fieldwork, and the NGSS’s Three-Dimensional Science
- virtualfieldwork.org
- The Virtual Fieldwork Experience Database
- Selected Lessons Page on virtualfieldwork.org
- Craters of the Moon
- Craters of the Moon VFE Teacher Page
- Craters of the Moon VFE Student Page
- Craters of the Moon VFE (Google Earth file) (download)
- Craters of the Earth VFE (Prezi component)
- Dinosaur Ridge (if time allows, or for further exploration)
- Dinosaur Ridge Teacher page
- Dinosaur Ridge Student page
- Dinosaur Ridge VFE Google Earth file (download)
- Dinosaur Ridge VFE (Prezi component)
- Earth Science Bigger Ideas: http://virtualfieldwork.org/Big_Ideas.html
- Google Earth
- Google Earth download
- Google Earth Pro download (now also free)
- About Making Virtual Fieldwork Experiences: Resources From the ReaL Earth Inquiry Project & the Critical Zone Observatory Network (Prezi)
Bios:
Don Duggan-Haas is the Director of Teacher Programs at PRI and its Museum of the Earth & Cayuga Nature Center in Ithaca, NY. Don’s work in teacher education, teacher professional development and curriculum materials development marries deep understandings of how people learn with deep understandings of the Earth system. He is a nationally regarded expert in place-based and technology-rich Earth and environmental science education, especially as related to the use of Virtual Fieldwork Experiences (VFEs). VFEs are multi-media representations of actual field sites ideally created by teachers and students working together. He also has expertise in climate and energy education and is co-author of the book, The Science Beneath the Surface: A Very Short Guide to the Marcellus Shale. He served on the Earth & Space Science Design Team for the National Research Council’s A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas and currently serves as the Second Vice President of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers. Don has taught at Colgate, Cornell, and Michigan State Universities, Kalamazoo College, and Tapestry and Norwich (New York) High Schools.
Rob Ross is Associate Director for Outreach at the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) in Ithaca, NY. He was trained as a paleontologist (PhD from Harvard in 1990) and paleoceanographer (post-doc at the University of Kiel in Germany), and for four years was on the faculty at Shizuoka University in Japan. He moved to Ithaca to work at PRI in 1997 and facilitated the expansion of PRI programming for local school and community groups, helped found teacher professional development programs focused on place-based learning and authentic science experiences, and participated in various national initiatives to improve Earth science education nationally. Rob was part of the team that opened PRI's Museum of the Earth in 2003 and worked on merger with the Cayuga Nature Center that was finalized in 2013. He is founder of the Teacher-Friendly Guide series and co-author and co-editor of a number of books and papers in paleontology and Earth science education. He also teaches courses at Ithaca College and Cornell University.
