Date: March 22, 2007
Time:
8 AM to 2 PM
Cost: $30 – Member Schools $125 for Non-Member Schools
See website www.salemcollaborative.org for member list.
Workshop Series Instructor: TBA
Description: This workshop will benefit Earth Science Teachers
– and also generalists and special education teachers that would like to
be able to answer those great science questions like “Is the Earth closer
to the sun during summer?” This workshop will feature a series of wonderful
hands-on, age-appropriate explorations of many different earth science topics.
We will use innovative, student-friendly bathymetric maps to explore plate
tectonics – and you don’t even have to know what a bath map is! We will also
create topographic maps and discuss strategies to help students understand
and appreciate the variety of landforms encountered every day. My favorite
investigation is one called “Why DO we have seasons?” – This will involve
globes, solar cells, and excellent data collection that reveals the truth
about the seasons – in an unforgettable way. Want to help students understand
moon phases? Tides? This workshop is for you!
Correlation to MA
Frameworks
|
Subject Area |
Grade 6 – 8 |
High School |
|
Earth Science |
1. Recognize, interpret, and be able to create
models of the earth’s common physical features in various mapping representations,
including contour maps. 5. Describe how the movement of the earth’s crustal
plates causes both slow changes in the earth’s surface (e.g., formation
of mountains and ocean basins) and rapid ones (e.g., volcanic eruptions
and earthquakes). 9. Describe lunar and solar eclipses, the observed
moon phases, and tides. Relate them to the relative positions of the earth,
moon, and sun. 11. Explain how the tilt of the earth and its
revolution around the sun result in an uneven heating of the earth, which
in turn causes the seasons. |
1. Matter and Energy in
the Earth System Central Concepts: The entire Earth system and its various cycles
are driven by energy. Earth has both internal and external sources of energy.
Two fundamental energy concepts included in the Earth system are gravity
and electromagnetism. 3. Earth Processes and Cycles Central Concepts: Earth is a dynamic interconnected system. The evolution of Earth has been driven by interactions
between the lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere. Over geologic
time, the internal motions of Earth have continuously altered the topography
and geography of the continents and ocean basins by both constructive and
destructive processes. |
|
Technology/Engineering |
1. Materials,
Tools, and Machines Central Concept: Appropriate materials, tools, and machines enable
us to solve problems, invent, and construct. 2. Engineering
Design Central Concept: Engineering design is an iterative process that
involves modeling and optimizing to develop technological solutions to
problems within given constraints. |
1. Engineering Design Central Concepts: Engineering design involves practical problem
solving, research, development, and invention/innovation, and requires
designing, drawing, building, testing, and redesigning. Students should
demonstrate the ability to use the engineering design process to solve
a problem or meet a challenge. |
Please register online at our website www.salemcollaborative.org or email the following information to Jim Kearns at registration@salemcollaborative.org. If you have registration questions, please call Jim at 781-771-4860.
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