ISTAT Earth Science Workshop

Workshop Leaders

Jen Fong and Eric Lewis, Mission High School
David Barrios, Galileo Academy
Lind Gee, Berkeley Seismological Laboratory
Anne Monk, UC Museum of Paleontology

Goals

• To encourage teachers to use the ISTAT Web sites for lesson planning, resources, and curriculum ideas;
• To meet the needs of a range of teachers who have varying experience with Earth science and with using the Web as a curriculum resource;
• and to get feedback on the Web site and provide a forum for discussion.

Agenda

08:00 - 08:30 Registration
08:30 - 08:45 Bagels and welcome!
08:45 - 09:00 Goals and objectives of the workshop
09:00 - 09:40 Introduction to an activity - Earth Science in the News
09:40 - 10:45 Introduction to the scope and sequence. Examples of online activities.
• Earthquake catalog and maps
• On the Move - Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics
• Virtual Earthquake
• Earthquake Safety Puzzle
• Investigating Earthquakes through Regional Seismicity
• Mountain maker, Earth shaker
• Earth Pulse Center
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:20 Introduction to course outlines
11:20 - 12:00 Teachers share favorite activity and perspectives on course outlines
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:00 Lesson/Unit planning through the Web site
14:00 - 14:30 Share Web sites
14:30 - 15:00 Feeback on workshop and Web site

Workshop sponsors

Berkeley Seismological Laboratory
Integrating Science, Teaching, and Technology Project
San Francisco Unified School District
Incorporated Research Institutions in Seismology

Seismology materials

The November 7 workshop was designed to provide you with a number of resources for your classroom. Here is a summary what you received:

• Notebook of activities and resources
• Earthquakes and Geological Discovery by B. Bolt
• This Dynamic Earth: the Story of Plate Tectonics - USGS publication
• Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country - SCEC publication
• BSL Information Sheet on Earthquakes
• IRIS Slinky
• Posters
  • This Dynamic Planet - USGS
  • Exploring the Earth Through Seismology - IRIS
  • Western United States Earthquakes - IRIS

For other resources, we recommend the ISTAT 9th Grade Earth Science outline at http://seismo.geo.berkeley.edu/seismo/istat/9th/. This series of Web pages is being developed to support the 9th grade Earth Sciences curriculum at SFUSD.