[Globaldata] [Fwd: GSA poster session- teaching about rates, dates, geologic time]

[John McDaris]

(Messsage forwarded from Heather Macdonald, College of William and Mary.)


Hello,

Please consider submitting an abstract for the On the Cutting Edge 
illustrated community discussion poster session on It's About Time: 
Teaching the Temporal Aspects of Geoscience (Topical session #104) at the 
2005 GSA Annual Meeting.

The deadline is July 12.
http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2005AM/top/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=16007

The one-abstract rule has been waived for this poster session (details at 
the end) and we have room for a large number of posters.


This session calls for discipline-wide reflection to share and discuss the 
variety of ways to enhance student understanding of all aspects of geologic 
time and its measurement (K-16, informal education, graduate education)

We encourage posters presenting a specific technique, approach, assignment, 
or lab as well as those addressing more general concepts associated with 
deep time and understanding rates.  Possibilities include (but are not 
limited to)

*  approaches for bringing cutting edge geochronologic research into the 
classroom
* specific assignments, labs, problem sets, or other activities that 
address how geoscientists determine dates and rates using paleontology, 
radiometric dating, relative proxy data, and/or other dating techniques,
*  strategies and challenges for teaching about recurrence intervals, 
predictions, probabilistic/stochastic events, and related themes
*  teaching with a temporal theme,
*  research on learning about time.


This session (convened as part of the Cutting Edge Professional Development 
Program) is sponsored by the National Association of Geoscience Teachers; 
GSA Geoscience Education Division; and CHRONOS

Conveners: R. Heather Macdonald, David W. Mogk, Barbara J. Tewksbury, 
Cathryn A. Manduca.

The contributions to this session will be preserved in an on-line 
searchable collection designed to foster continued sharing and interaction. 
The session is scheduled for Sunday evening overlapping with the opening 
reception, and adjacent to the exhibition hall.  We will ask each 
contributor to use a common poster format and complete a submission form on 
our website (details TBA) as well as submitting an abstract to GSA.


Thanks,

Heather



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College of William and Mary
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