Participants will participate in earth science activities to emphasize the development of the process skills of elementary students. The process skills emphasized will be observing, hypothesizing, planning, interpreting, and communicating with specific activities that can be done in the class. Intended for K-6 teachers. Topics will include causes of earthquakes, plate tectonics, propagation of seismic waves, statistics and data, Earth structure and hazards. Intended for college faculty who teach introductory earth science courses.
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This active workshop will introduce educators to the concepts behind the theory of plate tectonics. Effective teaching strategies and a comprehensive series of hands-on activities that employ maps, puzzles, and models are used to show the evidence of Pangea, lithospheric plates, and plate motion. Learn why the continental drift hypothesis is not accepted, and take back to your classrooms an entire unit of plate tectonics activities. Participants will also receive a beautiful map of the sea floor. Intended for K-16 educators.