Earth to Class

Earth2Class (Earth to Class/E2C)
is a unique science/math/technology resource for K-12 teachers, students, the general public, and geoscientists. It is a collaboration among researchers and an Earth Science educator at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University ; technology integration specialists from Colégio Bandeirantes, São Paulo, Brasil; and classroom teachers from New York, New Jersey, and elsewhere.

E2C centers around “Saturday Workshops for Educators” held at Columbia's Lamont Campus in Palisades N.Y. One key feature to E2C is involvement of LDEO scientists. Their availability through workshops, web site postings, and e-mail allow teachers and students access to cutting-edge research which can be used to develop learning activities directly linked to “real-world problems,” and provide scientists with an effective format to disseminate their discoveries more broadly. Since 1998, we have provided more than 120 Workshops featuring over 80 LDEO scientists.

2012 - 2013 Dates

Here are the dates, presenters, and topics for workshops in the coming academic year. Click on a title to learn more about that program. (Some links will be completed soon.)

29 Sep Andrew Goodwillie and Steve Kluge: "GeoMapApp Middle- and High-School Learning
Activities"

6 Oct Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Annual Open House

27 Oct Heather Savage: "What Can Dead Plants Tell Us About Earthquakes?"

17 Nov Sidney Hemming: "Lake Level History of the Mono Basin, Eastern California"

8 Dec Roseline Remans: "We Are What We Eat: Nutritious Landscapes"

19 Jan Alberto Malinverno: "Scientific Ocean Drilling and the Earth's History"

23 Feb Gregory Mountain -- "Drilling for the Global Sea Level Record: Results of IODP
Expedition 313 on the NJ Shelf"

23 Mar Brendan Buckley -- "Talkative Trees: Using tree rings to recreate local landscape history"

27 Apr Andrew Juhl and Fran Hess --"VAST/Visiting Arctic Science Teachers Research Program"

4 May Dallas Abbott --"Climate Downturns in the Early Part of the 6th Century--
New Results and Inferences"

General Schedule:
08:45 – 09:30		Arrival of Participants and General Announcements
09:30 – 10:00		Background Information on Today's Topic
10:15 – 12:00		Guest Scientist (s) presentation (s)
12:00 – 13:00 (noon - 1 pm)		Lunch with the Scientist
13:00 – 15:30 (1 pm - 3:30 pm)		Explorations in selected LDEO laboratory facilities. Among these are the Deep Sea Core Repository, Rock Mechanics lab, Seismology Museum, etc.

Thanks for your interest!

The easiest way to register for the Saturday Workshops: send an e-mail to:
michael@earth2class.org

There is a $15 fee to attend each program, which covers lunch and other expenses. You can attend individual E2C workshops by completing this registration form. The Lamont campus is normally closed on Saturdays, so please pre-register so we can add your name to the Security Gatehouse entry list.

All programs take place in the Seismology-Marine Biology Building Seminar Room (unless a special announcement is made about an alternate location.)

Directions to the LDEO Campus by Car or Shuttle Bus

A second key to E2C is the ever-growing collection of educational resources available on this web site, which provide teachers, students, and others access to up-to-date information about our changing planet. These make our offerings available to anyone, even if they cannot attend the live workshops. Use the Quick Links at the left or pull-down menus at the top of each page to explore these. Dr. Michael J Passow maintains these links.
E2C Team Members, Dr. Cristiana Mattos Assumpção and Frederico Dalmas Baggio, have developed connections with educational institutions in their home of São Paulo, Brasil. Click here to learn about Earth2Class em Brasil/Earth2Class in Brazil.

E2C has been supported in part through National Science Foundation
Geoscience Education Grant 0331232.

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