[iris-bulk] Request for Proposals: Developing a Conceptual Understanding

[IRIS]

Request for Proposals: Developing a Conceptual Understanding of the  
Earth via Seismic Data

To advance the mission IRIS Education and Outreach (E&O) program, the  
program seeks to support universities, and other groups engaged in  
K-12 seismology education by;
•	Promoting and facilitating the classroom use of educational  
seismographs and seismic data
•	Developing and disseminating hands-on curricular materials and  
educational services
•	Developing and delivering models of professional development that  
enable teachers to use data and materials as an integral part of  
their classroom instruction.

The IRIS E&O program requests proposals for projects that will  
develop an integrated instructional sequence enabling teachers to  
make use of seismic data, either freely available on the web and/or  
data collected from local recording systems, as a meaningful part of  
their instruction.

Funding in the amount of $60,000 is available for one award of one  
year duration.  Funding to IRIS is provided by the National Science  
Foundation (NSF) through a cooperative agreement.

Proposals should be submitted by April 16, 2007.

The full RFP is available at http://www.iris.edu/about/ENO/ or  
directly at
http://www.iris.edu/about/ENO/seis_edu_RFP_070212.pdf