The IRIS Education and Outreach Program has provided high quality, content-based professional development for grade 5-12 teachers and college and university faculty since 1999.
Workshops to be held at NSTA 2009 in New Orleans
Thursday, March 19 3:30–4:30 PM Locating Earthquakes Using Recent Seismic Data
Friday, March 20 8:00–9:00 AM
Why Can't Scientists Predict Earthquakes?
Friday, March 20 9:30–10:30 AM
Discovering Earth's Layered Interior with Seismic Waves—Finally an Activity That Addresses This Standard!
Saturday, March 21 12:30–1:30 PM
Teaching Core Physics Concepts Through the Lens of Seismology
Saturday, March 21 3:30–4:30 PM
Determining What Is Beneath Our Feet: Applying the Reflection and Refraction of Waves (IRIS)
Saturday, March 21 5:00–6:00 PM
Making Waves: Seismic Wave Activities and Demonstrations
Sample Past Workshops
November 28th, 2007 - EPISD/UTEP Partnership
Earthquakes: A one-day workshop for teachers
Objective(s):
To increase teachers' confidence when teaching topics earth science
Teachers will increase the time spent on seismology related instruction
Teachers will increase the number of activities that have a "higher level of cognition" and include seismic data
Teacher's background knowledge of Earth Science topics will increase
November 15th, 2007 - CAST Conference
Using Earthscope Data in the Classroom
Come learn how your students can access GPS and seismic data over the Internet from the largest ever Earth science experiment. The data can be used in the classroom to discover the processes underlying tectonic plate motions and to understand Earth structure.
January 13th & 14th, 2007. AS-1 Users Workshop (Level 1)
For teachers who have an AS-1 seismograph and have not previously attended a users workshop
Objectives:
Teachers will be able to set-up, calibrate, operate and troubleshoot their AS-1 seismograph
Teachers will be able to use data collected from their AS-1 seismograph as an integral part of their seismology/plate tectonics
instruction. Teachers will be able to participate as part of a larger community of educational seismograph users. (e.g. Data sharing via SPINET, the near-real time web images and collaboration, etc
